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Surbiton 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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59
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
The total number of workshops now on the
Register, including bakehouses, is 140.
The businesses carried on at the respective
premises are given in the report of your Medical
Officer of Health.
Visits from time to time have been paid and as
a result the following nuisances have been dealt
with:—
| Insufficient | 1 |
| Unsuitable or defective | 2 |
| Want of cleanliness | 4 |
| Smoke nuisances abated | 1 |
| Miscellaneous defects | 6 |
The year 1937 was an eventful one in the
history of Factory and Workshop legislation. In
July the Factories Act, 1937, was passed and comes
into operation on the 1st July, 1938. It is a consolidating
and amending measure, completely
replacing the Factory and Workshop Act. 1901, and
consolidates the provisions of sections of at least
ten other statutes.
It contains many new provisions, abolishes the
old distinction between factory and workshop, and
between a textile and non-textile factory, and
greatly reduces the permissible working hours laid
down in previous Acts both for women and young
persons.