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Other unsatisfactory conditions—
Meals rest interval unsatisfactory 1
Unsuitable and insufficient means for meals
No seats for females 3
The Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Act, 1936,
came into operation on 1st May, 1937, which accounts for
(the increase in the number of inspections for 1937 compared
with the figure for 1936.
One occupier of a shop was proceeded against for
selling after the statutory hour of closing by retail sales hy
auction, incurring a fine of 40/-.
SMOKE ABATEMENT.
Three Sanitary Inspectors on the staff hold the special
certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute for smoke
inspection.
Six special inspections were made in connection with
nuisances arising out of the emission of smoke. In four
instances the complaints were confirmed, and these were
remedied by improved methods of stoking or change of
fuel being adopted on the advice of the inspectors.
As has been stressed before in these pages, increased
use of electricity and gas for heating and cooking for
domestic purposes will do much to solve the problem of
smoke pollution of the atmosphere. Bromley is not a
factory town, and, therefore, smoke pollution of the atmosphere
within the area must of necessity be ascribed in the
main to the domestic use of fuel.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
Table XIV. in the Appendix supplies statistical data
relative to the inspection of, and defects found in, factories,
workshops, workplaces, and outwork premises.
SWIMMING BATHS AND POOLS.
(a) Public Open Air Bath.—Owing to re-construction
work, the Corporation's Open Air Swimming Bath was
only available to the public for approximately one month