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Outworkers.
Twenty-one lists of Outworkers were received during the year,
and the following are details of the trades involved, together with
the number of persons employed:—
Trade No. of outworkers employed
Clothing 62
Cardboard boxes 3
Leather Goods 1
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Section 134.
No instances of work in unwholesome premises were found, no
notices were served, nor were any prosecutions undertaken.
Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act, 1952.
No contraventions were found during the course of the year.
Pet Animals Act, 1951.
Licences in respect of six premises were granted or renewed during
1962 and six visits were made by the Public Health Inspectors.
No nuisances or defects were found.
The pets sold from these shops consist mainly of birds, fish and
tortoises.
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949.
The number of inspections and treatments carried out were as
follow:—*
Total number Number of
of inspections. _ Infestations cleared.
Local Authority's property 25 4
Dwelling houses (including Council
houses) 5,275 630
Business premises 182 37
In addition, the Council's sewers were test-baited early in the
year to ascertain the areas of infestation and this was followed up
by treatment with poison bait in February. The degree of infestation
was found to be negligible.
Public Conveniences.
In January, 1962, the management of public conveniences was
transferred from the Engineer and Surveyor's Department to the Health
Department. At this time there were four conveniences in use, namely
White Hart, Petts Wood, Farnborough and Biggin Hill.
Four new conveniences had been planned and during the year
three of them came into use as follow:—
St. Mary Cray (February).
Green St. Green (October).
Priory Gardens (December).
The completion of the fourth one at Knoll Rise car park was held
up for the addition of a room to accommodate a full-time attendant
on the ladies side.