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At the end of the year 39 premises were registered for the use of filling
materials and two premises were licensed for storage of rag flock.
Two of the four samples of filling material taken for analysis failed to
satisfy the prescribed tests, The materials in question were feathers and
secondhand eiderdowns used for filling cushions. on the instruction of the
Public Health committee a warning letter was sent to the trader, who ceased
using these materials; a later sample was found to be satisfactory,
HEATING APPLIANCES (FIREGUARDS) ACT, 1952
This Act prohibits the sale or letting of certain heating appliances
without effective fireguards,, The Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Regulations,
1953 require fireguards to be fitted to gas fires, electric fires and
oil heaters sold or let after 30th September, 1954, and which are so designed
that they are suitable for use in residential premises and are of such a type
that without a guard there is likelihood of injury by burning. The standards
of construction and fitting for guards, and the tests to be employed in ascer
taining whether guards comply with those standards, are set out in the Schedule
to the Regulations.
As a result of visits to 187 premises some 530 appliances were subjected
to the prescribed tests; two appliances found to be unsatisfactory were withdrawn
from sale by the traders concerned.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1954
SECTION 11 (Power to sanitary authority to provide dustbins) empowers a
sanitary authority to provide, maintain, repair, cleanse, or renew such number
of dustbins in premises in their district as may be considered necessary. In
addition, the sanitary authority are empowered, if they think fit, to make an
annual charge in respect of each dustbin so provided, maintained, repaired,
cleansed or renewed by them.
SECTION 12 (Obligation to provide dustbins) If it appears to the Borough
Council that any house in their district is without a sufficient number of
dustbins of suitable material, size and construction, and in proper condition,
they may serve a notice on the owner of the house requiring him to provide such
number of suitable dustbins as may be specified in the notice, The provisions
of Section 286 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (relating to appeals
against the enforcement of certain notices) apply to any such notice, The 1954
Act provides that the owner may also appeal on the ground that the house to
which the notice relates is occupied by some other person and that any obliga
tion to comply with the notice ought to fall upon the occupier of the house
Notices requiring the provision of additional dustbins were served in
respect of 28 premises and all were complied with. In one case the owner
entered an appeal against the notice but subsequently provided the dustbin and
withdrew his appeal.
SECTION 18 (Hairdressers and Barbers) enacts that as from the appointed day no
person shall carry on the business of hairdresser or barber at any premises in
a borough unless he and those premises are registered by the Borough Council.
A Borough Council may make bylaws for the purpose of securing
(a) the cleanliness of premises registered and all the instruments,
towels, materials and equipment used therein; and
(b) the cleanliness of persons employed in such premises in regard to
both themselves and their clothing
The person registered is required to keep displayed in the premises in respect
of which he is registered a copy of his certificate of registration and of any
bylaws made by the Borough Council, and penalties are provided for failure to
do so .