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Action taken with Regard to Smoke Abatement. The
Sanitary Inspectors in the ordinary course of their duties
keep chimney shafts under observation and record any nuisance
of smoke in connection therewith. In addition to these,
special investigations are made wherever complaints are
received and in the course of the year 155 special observations
were recorded.
Factory and Workshop Act. The Medical Officer of
Health is required to include in his Annual Report details of
the administration of this Act in his district. The total
number of factories, workshops and workplaces on the
register at the end of the year was 258. The number of
inspections made was 832, which compares with 877 in
1926. The number of sanitary defects found was 34 and
33 of these were remedied by the end of the year. Bakehouses
are specially reported on in the section dealing with
the supervision of food.
The number of inspections of outworkers' premises was
766, compared with 1,035 last year. Most of the outworkers
in the Borough are employed in connection with the manufacture
of tennis balls and practically all the remainder are
engaged in making wearing apparel. Generally speaking,
the homework is carried out under satisfactory conditions,
and it was necessary to serve only 8 notices in respect of
unwholesome premises. Only one case of infectious disease
occurred amongst the outworkers.
The following Table is in the form adopted by the Secretary
of State to provide for uniformity throughout the country
in the presentation of certain particulars of this work which
lend themselves to statistical treatment.