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FACTORIES ACT, 1937.
Table XVI in the appendix gives the annual figures for this
work. This Act came into force on 1st July, 1938. Its provisions
are designed to secure betterment of hygiene and
general welfare for the employees in factories and other workplaces.
It is an enactment amending and consolidating earlier
factory and worshop acts. With the intervention of the war
there was little time to observe the effects of this legislation.
There is thus an accumulation of outstanding work to be done
in this branch of the service.
SHOPS ACTS, 1912-1936.
Here again is legislation designed to mitigate as far as
possible any conditions detrimental to the health of shop
assistants. The Bromley shopkeepers have readily co-operated
with the Inspector under the Shops Act, Mr. G. R. Woods. Conditions
during the war, bombing, rationing control and post-war
conditions have all contributed their particular problems for
the shopkeeper and his staff, and some little time must elapse
before anything like normal conditions can be enjoined on
traders.

SMOKE ABATEMENT.
Twenty-nine inspections were made by the inspectors. Five
instances of smoke nuisances were all remedied.
VERMINOUS CONDITIONS AND UNCLEANLINESS.
Seventy-eight visits to premises by the sanitary inspectors
related to eradication of bugs, dirty conditions and disinfestations.
Twenty premises were successfully cleaned up.
The Property Manager reporting for the year on the Council's
Housing Estates states that little bug disinfestation was carried
out during 1946, and that the very minor troubles that were
encountered were dealt with by removal of woodwork and
spraying, with apparent success.
Linked with the general action of the Department in dealing
with verminous infestations is the work of the School Medical
Service through routine vermin and cleanliness inspections by
the school doctors and school nurses, a particular instance of