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PART V - FACTORIES, SHOPS, OFFICES, ETC.
There are one hundred and seventy three factories with
mechanical power and five factories without mechanical power on
the Register, with a ranee of products including:-
Aircraft, bread and confectionery, building materials,
car accessories, 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, tarniacadam, steel wool and wood block
floors.
Pull details of the inspections carried out and notices
served are set out in Appendix 1 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 tleir own homes to supply a list of such persons to the
District Council every six months. There are 108 outworkers in
the district and 174 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 66S
Premises in the district to which the Public Health Inspectors
made 1,019 visits. As a result three informal notices were
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
beld in the Public Health Department.
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