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these being classified as\: serving customers after closing hours,.
77; intervals for meals not given to assistants, 17; assistants
not having a half-holiday, 2; young persons employed after the
statutory time, 20; absence of suitable and sufficient sanitary and
washing accommodation, 10; temperature of shop not maintained,
3; absence of sitting accommodation for female assistants,
1; absence of suitable and sufficient facilities for taking of meals, 2.
348 letters were sent to traders regarding the absence of
appropriate notices.
In three cases it was necessary to take legal proceedings, and
in 15 instances the traders concerned received a final warning.
One certificate of exemption from the provisions requiring sanitary
accommodation was granted.
The Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Act, 1936, came into
operation on May 1st. The chief effects of the Act are to require
the closing of shops on Sundays subject to a number of exceptions
designed to meet the reasonable needs of the public; and to
provide for compensatory holidays during the week for persons
employed on Sunday about the business of those shops which are
permitted to open, subject to exemption for certain classes of
workers. During the year the following contraventions were
noted:— serving customers with non-exempted goods, 1; assistants
not receiving a compensatory holiday, 12.
The particulars of the various orders in force in different parts
of the district were given in the report for 1935. There is no
general closing order operative throughout the district. During
the year an effort was made to obtain details of those proposals
which would prove most acceptable to the general body of traders
in the district. A scheme was drawn up and steps will be taken to
endeavour to get the necessary majority vote of the traders to
put it into operation.
RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919.
105 complaints were received during the year regarding the
presence of rats. On receipt of a complaint, an inspection is made
by a sanitary inspector; where any sanitary defects or nuisances
remediable under the Public Health Acts likely to be predisposing
causes of the presence of rats are found the necessary action is
taken, and the complaint is forwarded to the County's inspector.
PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT.
67 visits were paid to places of public entertainment for
inspection of their sanitary condition. In all instances the sanitary
arrangements were found to be satisfactory.