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Factories
There are 518 factories in the district. To these 333 visits were paid.
Sixty-two contraventions were found. Of these seventeen were due to
want of cleanliness, and fifteen to defective or unsuitable sanitary
accommodation. The remaining offences were mostly in regard to noncompliance
with the requirements about the exhibition of notices.
Building work in progress at blocks of offices, shops, etc., has
been kept under observation to see that satisfactory sanitary accommodation
is provided. Chemical closets have been accepted as the minimum
standard.
Local Authorities are required to keep a register of Outworkers with
a view to action being taken where work is being done in unwholesome
premises or where there is a risk of spread of infection. At the end of the
year there were 143 outworkers on the Register. 115 were engaged on
making or altering wearing apparel, fifteen on the making of Christmas
crackers. 232 visits were paid to such premises, all of which were found
in a satisfactory condition.
The Ministry require the inclusion of certain particulars about the
administration of the Factories Acts to be setout in the following prescribed
form :