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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hayes and Harlington 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]
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THE FACTORIES ACT, 1937
There are one hundred and thirty factories with mechanical
power and eight factories without mechanical power on the Register,
with a range of products including:—
Aircraft, building materials, caravans, carbon products,
cheese, chocolate, cocoa, coffee extracts, electrical transformers,
furniture, lubricating oil, optical lenses, potato crisps, pianos,
radio, radar, television, gramophone records and gramophones,
rubber, tarmacadam and wood block floors.
| Premises | Number on Register | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections | Written Notices | Occupiers Prosecuted | |||
| — | |||||
| — | — | ||||
| - | - | - | - | ||
| — | |||||
| — | — | ||||
| — | |||||
* (including defects found, but not remedied, in 1951)
Outworkers.
Part VIII of the Factories Act requires the occupier of a
factory who employs persons to carry out certain classes of work
in their own homes to supply a list of such persons to the District
Council every six months. Fifty-seven notifications have been
received and one hundred and five inspections made; in every
instance the work was found to be carried out under suitable
Conditions,
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