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FACTORIES AND BAKEHOUSES.
The total number of factories on the register at the end of the
year was 224 (185 machnical, 36 non- mechanical and 3 works of
building construction.
The businesses carried on at the respective promises were as follows;
Bakehouse 6
Laundries ???
Cleaners anDyers 5
Tailors 4
Engineers (various) 37
Timber Yards 2
Manufacture of office aopliances 1
Chemical manufacture and hairdressing sundries 1
Cellulose spraying and coach building 4
Steel hardeners 1
Printers 9
Builders, Joiners and Plumbers 1?
Boot repairers 13
Motor Engineers 21
Stove enamelling and spray painting 1
Brickmaking 1
Fencing contractors 2
Concrete Products 3
Machine T00I3 4
Instrument making 3
Metal work 5
Fur glove makers 1
Cycle repairers 3
Radio and electrical engineers 8
Battery repair and manufacture 2
Spectacle frame and lens making 4
Plastics 3
Dental laboratories 3
Paint manufacturers 1
Works of building construction 3
Manufacture of breathing apparatus 1
Aircraft components 2
Blindmal???ng 1
Cardboard containers 1
Manufacture of rubber tyres,etc 1.
Accordion making 2
Cosmetics 2
Wire works 2
Furniture making 3
Packing and food products 3
Pen manufacturers 2
Car breaking 1
Photography 2
Dressmaking 2
Miscelianeous 12
247 visits were made to those premises, and as a result, works
were carried out to remedy contraventions as urder:-
Want of cleanliness 1 factory
insufficient sanitary conveniences 4 factories
efective,dirty or inadequately lighted
sanitary conveniences 25 factories
Means of escape in case of firo not in order 4 factories
Pour certificates were issued under section 34 of the Factorios
Act, 1937, that the factories to which they relato were provided
with such means of escape in case of fire for the persons employed
therein as may be reasonably required in the c ire vims tances of the case
There were 41 outworkers on the reglstor at the end of the year,
17 visits of inspection were made but no contraventions found .
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