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FACTORIES AND BAKEHOUSES.
The total number of factories on the register at the end of
the year was 239 (183 mechanical, 43 non-mechanical and 3 works
of building construction).
The businesses carried on at the respective premises were
as follows:-
Bakehouses 17
Laundries 9
Cleaners and Dyers 6
Tailors 4
Engineers (various) 34
Timber Yards 2
Manufacture of office appliances 1
Chemical manufacture and hairdressing sundries 1
Cellulose spraying and coach building 4
Stove enamelling and spray painting 1
Printers 10
Builders, Joiners and Plumbers 19
Boot repairers 13
Motor Engineers 20
Brickmaking 1
Fencing contractors 1
Concrete Products 3
Machine Tools 5
Instrument making 4
Metal Work 6
Fur glove makers 1
Cycle repairers 3
Radio and electrical engineers 5
Battery repair and manufacture 2
Spectacle frame and lens making 3
Plastics 2
Dental laboratories 3
Paint manufacturers 1
Works of building construction 3
Manufacture of breathing apparatus 1
Aircraft components 3
Blindmaking 1
Cardboard containers 1
Manufacture of rubber tyres, etc. 1
Accordion making 1
Cosmetics 2
Wireworks 2
Furniture making 2
Packing and food products 3
Pen manufacturers 2
Car breaking 1
Photography 2
Dressmaking 2
Loom weaving and church vestments 1
Upholstery 3
Clothing repairs 2
Miscellaneous 15
221 visits were made to these premises, and works were
carried out to remedy contraventions found as under
Want of cleanliness 5 factories
Insufficient sanitary conveniences 3 "
Defective, dirty or inadequately lighted
sanitary conveniences 29 "
Means of escape in ease of fire not in order 4
Other offences 3 "
Four certificates were issued under section 34 of the Factori1-91
Act, 1937, that the factories to which they related were provided
with such means of escape in case of fire for the persons employed
33.