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Environmental Health
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OUTWORKERS
Twice yearly the occupiers of factories must supply to the Council a list of persons employed on
specified work outside the factory. This information must be sent to the local authority in whose area
the persons, known as Outworkers, reside.

FERTILIZERS AND FEEDING STUFFS ACT, 1926
Twelve samples of fertilisers and four samples of animal feeding stuffs were taken during the year
and submitted to the Council's Agricultural Analyst for examination. All were found to be satisfactory.
NOISE ABATEMENT ACT, 1960
Noise is one of the more serious problems affecting modern life and is one of which the general
public are becoming more aware.
A total of 25 complaints of noise from sources other than aircraft was received. The complaints
varied and included noise from:—
Games played in a boy scout hut.
Do-it-yourself motor car assembly.
Refrigerator motors and industrial processes where the on/off cycle of the noise occurs at any
time of the day or night.
Pneumatic drills.
Ice-cream vehicle chimes.
Suitable noise mufflers are available for pneumatic drills, and it is the department's policy to draw
attention to this whenever unmuffled drills are observed. The users of the drills have raised no objection
to the use of mufflers; use of mufflers is incorporated as a standard clause in Council contracts, and the
continued use of unmuffled drills can only be because of complete disregard of the nuisance caused.
Chimes on ice-cream vendors' vehicles cause two different nuisances, one from their use outside
the legally permitted hours of operation, and the other because the chimes are so loud they can be
heard many times when a vehicle is in the vicinity. The traders have been requested to co-operate in
preventing annoyance of either sort.