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Mortuary facilities are provided in the newly constructed building
in Mill Lane. This incorporates a post-mortem room, viewing room,
refrigerating plant, pathologist's room, and waiting room.
Shops Acts, 1912—1938.
The Chief and District Sanitary Inspectors are appointed Inspectors
under the Acts.
During the year, 949 inspections to shops were made and 65
informal notices were served regarding the following infringements:—
Sunday trading 7
Assistants'half day and half day notice 12
Exhibition of regulation form F 10
H 10
K 7
VII 2
,, ,, G 3
Hours employment of young persons 2
Closing hours 23
Half-day closing 2
Mixed shop notices —
Compensatory holidays 3
There were approximately 580 premises on the register which
came under the operation of the Shops Acts, 1912—1938, and, in
addition to inspections which were made during other routine food
inspections of shops, evening and Sunday inspections were carried out
regularly.
Section 10.
Details of the operation of Section 10 of the Shops Act, 1934,
relating to the health and comfort of shop assistants during 1939 are as
follows:—
Formal notices 10
-Shops without sanitary accommodation or
washing facilities 3
Shops without means of providing a reasonable
temperature 11
Shops provided with sanitary accommodation
or washing facilities 4
Shops provided with means for providing a
reasonable temperature 3
No formal exemption certificates for the exemption of the provision
of sanitary accommodation or washing facilities were issued, but
one written undertaking was accepted for a shop on conditions where
accommodation was available at other premises.
Of the 3 shops provided with means for maintaining a reasonable
temperature, 1 was a butcher's shop and 2 grocery shops.
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