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PART V - FACTORIES AND SHOPS
Factories Act, 1937.
There are one hundred and sixty-two factories with mechanical
power and six factories without mechanical power on the Register,
with a range of products including: -
Aircraft, building materials, car accessories, caravans,
carbon products, chocolate, cocoa, coffee extracts,
electrical transformers, electronic devices, furniture,
lubricating oil, optical lenses, radar, gramophone records
and gramophones, rubber, tarmacadam, steel wool and wood
block floors.
Full details of the inspections carried out and notices
served are set out in Appendix I to this report.
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. There are one hundred and
nine outworkers in the district and 82 inspections were made:
in every instance the work was found to be carried out under
suitable conditions.
Shops Act.
All parts of the Shops Act are administered, including
hours of closing, assistants' half holiday, Sunday trading,
comfort and welfare of assistants etc. The Act applies to more
than 650 premises in the district to which the Public Health
Inspectors made 907 visits. In addition 21 tours of duty were
undertaken outside normal office hours i.e. in the evenings and
on Sundays. As a result two informal notices were served but
in no instance was it considered necessary to institute legal
proceedings.
For the convenience of shopkeepers a stock of the statutory
forms which they are obliged to display on their premises is
held in the Public Health Department.
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