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Factories where mechanical power is used.—The
provision, lighting and maintaining of proper
and sufficient sanitary conveniences.
Factories where mechanical power is not used.—The
provision, lighting and maintaining of proper
and sufficient sanitary conveniences; cleanliness;
overcrowding; temperature; ventilation and
drainage of floors.
Soon after the Act came into force I visited the
offices of the District Inspector of Factories and extracted
from his Register a list of factories within this area and
a commencement has been made in compiling the
Register. Eighty-five inspections were made and in
twenty-one instances the District Inspector was notified
of cases where proper abstract was not exhibited, or
where the factory did not appear on the list. A table is
included at the end of the report giving details of the
administration of the Act as required by the Home Office.
FOOD SUPPLY.
As far as possible, watch is kept on premises where
food-stuffs are prepared or sold, which includes
slaughterhouses, butchers' and fishmongers' shops, bakehouses,
dairies, cowsheds, etc.
This entailed 165 visits. Places where ice-cream is
prepared are visited, but these are very few, the great
proportion of the ice-cream sold in the District being
manufactured by large firms outside and distributed to
shops for sale or retailed in the street from carrier
cycles.
The Food and Drugs Act, 1938, provides for the
registration of premises used in connection with the
manufacture or sale of ice cream, and thus will give a
larger measure of control over this popular commodity.
The Public Health (Meat) Regulations have worked
smoothly. The number of animals slaughtered in the
District continues to decrease year by year. This is