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3. FACTORIES ACT, 1937. No material change has taken
place in the types of industries in the borough, which were given
in some detail in the previous annual report. The particulars
relating to inspections and the defects found and remedied are
set out in the statistical appendix.
Outworkers.
246 visits to outworkers' premises were made during the year.
6. SMOKE ABATEMENT. The position with regard to
smoke remained much the same as in the previous year. It cannot
be said that atmospheric pollution is heavy in Wembley, by
comparison with a good many industrial towns, but nevertheless
action by the Public Health Department was from time to time
necessary. The managers of industrial establishments are
generally quite co-operative in their efforts to overcome smoke
emissions but the technical difficulties with which they are sometimes
faced have to be appreciated and it is sometimes not possible
to effect remedies at a moment's notice; this latter reservation
applies more particularly to instances in which alterations or
repairs to plant become necessary.
7. BATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919. The
Department continued to carry out rodent control on the lines
formulated in previous years. A free service was provided to
householders in respect of treatment at private dwellinghouses
but in all other eases a charge is made, the charge having relation
to the amount of labour and materials used. Three Rodent
Control Assistants, all of whom have been trained at the Infestation
Branch of the Ministry of Food, are employed on this work.
Details of work done are given in the statistical appendix. Two
maintenance treatments of the sewers were carried out by the
Borough Engineer and Surveyor's Department during the year, in
accordance with Ministry of Food Circular N.S. 11.