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12. RAG FLOCK AND OTHER FILLING MATERIALS
ACT, 1951; THE RAG FLOCK AND OTHER FILLING
MATERIALS REGULATIONS, 1951. This new legislation
which repealed The Rag Flock Acts, 1911 and 1928, came into
operation on the 1st November, 1951. The Act provides for the
licensing by local authorities of premises used for the manufacturing
or storing of rag flock for use on premises registered under
the Act, such licence to remain in force for a period not exceeding
twelve months but may be renewed from time to time for similar
periods.
It also provides for the registration of premises where
specified filling materials are used in manufacuring bedding, toys,
baby carriages and other articles of upholstery, but the following
activities are excluded from the need for registration:—
(a) the remaking or reconditioning of any article; or
(b) any upholstering in connection with the building or making
or fitting out of railway carriages, road vehicles, ships
or aircraft, or upholstering of such other kinds as may be
prescribed.
The specified materials include rag flock, unwoven cotton, cotton
linters, cotton millpuffs, cotton felt, cotton flock, unwoven wool,
woollen felt, woollen flock, jute, unwoven synthetic fibres,
synthetic fibre flock, hair, feathers or down, kapok, coir fibre,
Algerian fibre, Mexican fibre, sisal, seaweed, seagrass, Spanish
moss, straw or chaff. Standards of cleanliness to which these
filling materials must conform are specified in the Regulations.
Nine visits were made by Sanitary Inspectors to premises to
ascertain whether registration was necessary. As a result two
premises were registered by the Council and the remainder were
found not to require registration either on the grounds that the
activities were confined to the remaking or reconditioning of
articles or that business had ceased. There are no premises in
the Borough which require to be licensed.
13. WATER SUPPLY. The water supply of the Borough,
which is provided by the Colne Valley Water Co., except for a
small area in the southern end of the district supplied by the
Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water Co., remained satisfactory
in quality and quantity. The supply is pumped from
deep wells in the chalk outside the Borough boundaries. All of
the samples taken from piped supplies were reported as satisfactory.
No tendency to plumbo solvent action has been detected.
All dwelling houses in the Borough are provided with a mains
water supply.
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