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Certificates of Disrepair—Rent Act, 1957.
The following summary relates to the action taken in respect of
applications for Certificates of Disrepair:—
Number of Certificates granted 18
Number of applications not granted 1
Number of Undertakings accepted from owners 8
Number of Certificates cancelled upon application 4
Number of applications by owners for cancellation of Certificates
not granted 2
Number of applications for a Certificate as to the remedying
of defects 13
SUPERVISION OF OTHER PREMISES
During the course of the year routine visits were made by the Public
Health Inspectors to shops, factories, schools, clubs and to places of
public entertainment. These visits were made not only to ensure compliance
with the various public health statutes, but to give helpful advice
on the maintenance of conditions likely to raise the standards of environmental
hygiene.
Factories.
There are 454 factories on the register, comprising 401 where
mechanical power is used and 53 where no mechanical power is used. 40
other premises are also recorded which are subject to certain provisions of
the Factories Act.
During the year 245 visits were paid to these premises, and in 29
instances contraventions of the Act were found; 3 of these related to want
of cleanliness and 16 to defective or unsuitable sanitary accommodation;
the remaining offences were mainly in regard to failure to exhibit the
required notices. In one instance legal proceedings were taken for failure
to provide suitable sanitary accommodation.
Information regarding matters which are the concern of the Inspector
of Factories is passed to him and he in turn draws the attention of this
department to matters which he has discovered and which are the concern
of the Local Authority.
The Ministry require the inclusion of prescribed particulars about the
administration of the Factories Act to be set out as follows:—