London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hayes and Harlington 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]
This page requires JavaScript
THE FACTORIES ACT, 1937
There are one hundred and thirty eight 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 | |||
| Factories with mechanical power | 138 | 444 | 30 | — | |
| Factories without mechanical power | 8 | 17 | — | — | |
| Other premises under the Act (including work of building and engineering construction but not including outworkers' premises) | 12 | 32 | 3 | - | |
| Total | 158 | 493 | 33 | — | |
| Sanitary Accommodation (Section 7) Insufficient | ... | 2 | 4 | ||
| Unsuitable or defective | ... | ...• | 54 | 73 | |
| Not separate for sexes | ... | ... | — | — | |
| Other offences | ... | ... | 3 | 4 | |
| Total | ... | 59 | 81 | ||
| * (including defects found, but not remedied in 1952). | |||||
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-three notifications have been
received and eighty-nine inspections made ; in every instance the
work was found to be carried out under suitable conditions.
15