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37.
RAG FLOCK AND OTHER FILLING MATERIALS ACT, 1951.
This Act came into operation on the 1st November. 1951 and. adds
considerably to the powers and duties in connection with rag flock
imposed upon Metropolitan Borough Councils by the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936. The Act is designed to secure the use of clean
filling materials in upholstery, etc., and to that end provides for
the registration of premises where the filling materials are used and
the licensing of premises where rag flock is manufactured and where it
is stored. The Act requires that the occupiers keep records and it is
essential that the records are inspected and kept up to date; this will
be done by the Sanitary Inspectors. Generally speaking, it will be an
offence to have dirty filling materials on registered or licensed
premises and also to sell new upholstery, etc., which is stuffed with
unclean materials although there are several statutory defences
available to anyone against whom proceedings are taken.
Since the inception of the Act two samples of materials have been
taken and in both cases have been reported as being clean.
It was first necessary that an inspection and investigation of all
premises likely to come within the meaning of the Act should be made and
for this purpose an Investigator was appointed and during the three
months he was with us he made 325 inspections and visits. 105 premises
where filling materials are used were registered and 15 licences were
issued in respect of premises where rag flock is manufactured or stored.
During the part of the year prior to the Act coming into operation
five samples of Rag Flock were taken and submitted to the Public
Analyst. The results of these were 5,7,8,9 and 11 parts chlorine
per 100,000 parts respectively.
FOOD & DRUGS (MILK & DAIRIES) ACT, 1944.
MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ACT, 1949.
The details of licences issued during the year under the various
regulations are given in the following tables:-