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Twenty-five workshops and work-places were found to be
closed and thirty-two new ones opened during the year.
A table required to be furnished to the Home Office showing
details of work carried out under the provisions of the
Factory and Workshop Act is given on pages 21 and 22 of the
Medical Officer of Health's Report.
Shops Acts, 1912-1913. — One hundred and sixty-three
visits were made to the occupied shops in the' district to
ascertain if the provisions of the Acts were being complied
with.
Early in the year a petition was received from 16 hairdressers
in the district asking that the Wimbledon Barbers'
and Hairdressers' Closing Order, 1916, be revoked and a new
Order be made altering the closing hours.
The hairdressers were interviewed, and 18 out of a total
of 22 affected signified their acquiescence to the making of the
Order.
Subsequently, on the 27th October, 1919, the following
Order came into operation :—
Borough of Wimbledon.
SHOPS ACT, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of State, on the
twenty-seventh day of October, 1919, revoked the Wimbledon
Barbers' and Hairdressers' Closing Order, 1916, and confirmed
the Wimbledon Barbers' and Hairdressers' Closing Order,
1919, a copy of which is as follows: —
Shops Act, 1912.
Whereas the Town Council of Wimbledon have, in pursuance
of the provisions of the Shops Act, 1912, made and
submitted to me a Closing Order relating to Barbers' and
Hairdressers' Shops in the Borough :
And whereas it appears to me that the Order should be
confirmed with amendment:
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the powers vested in me
by the said Act, I hereby amend and confirm the Order as
hereinafter set forth: —
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