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PART V - FACTORIES, SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC,
Factories.
There are one hundred and sixty two factories with mechanical
power and five factories without mechanical power on the
Register, with a range of products including.
Aircraft, bread and confectionery, building materials,
canned fruit, car accessories, caravans, carbon products, chocolate,
cocoa, coffee extracts, cold stores, electrical condensors
and transformers, electronic devices, fibre glass articles,
furniture, lubricating oil, meat products, optical lenses,
plastics, precision tools, radar, gramophone records, rubber
products, tarmacadam, steel wool and wood black floors.
Pull details of the inspections carried out and notices
served are set out in Appendix I to this report,
Outworkers.
Part VII of the Factories Act requires the occupier of a
factory who employs persons carrying 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 143 outworkers in
the district and 100 inspections were made: in every instance
the work was found to be carried out under suitable conditions.
Shops.
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 666
premises in the district to which the Public Health Inspectors
made 180 visits. As a result one informal notice was served but
it was not 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.
Offices, Workplaces, etc.
The Offices Act, 1960, due to come into operation on the
1st January, 1962, can be regarded as a dead letter. No
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