[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Tynemouth County Borough.

  • Tynemouth (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Tynemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Factories and Workshops.—During the year, 170 visits were made to factories and workshops, and where defects were found, or insanitary conditions seen, notices were served upon the occupiers, or owners. Tfie following list shows matters which were notified by H.M. Inspector of Factories, and remedied under the Public Health Acts :— Sanitary accommodation :— Insufficient Unsuitable or defective ... Drain opening in bakehouse Notices Remedied after served. service of Notice. 5 3 3 3 1 1 7 Four lists of outworkers under section 107, containing four names, w'ere received during the year. The addresses of those named were visited and the premises found to be satisfactory and in accordance with the regulations. List of Workshops on the Register at the end of the year. Barge Loaders 1 Fish Curers 25 Photographers ... 5 Basket Makers 2 Garment Pressers ] Picture Framers .. 1 Bakers ... 36 Gas Manufacturers 1 Plumbers .. 10 Boiler Makers... 1 Hosiers... 2 Printers .. 5 Boat Builders ... 2 Ice Manufacturers 2 Rag Sorters ... 1 Bicycle Repairers 1 Jewellers 2 Ropemakers ... 1 Biscuit Manufacturers 1 Joiners ... 20 Saddlers ... 2 Blacksmiths 5 Laundries 5 Salt Packers ... ... 3 Brick Makers ... 2 Lead Manufacturers ... 1 Sausage Makers .. 3 Cabinetmakers 3 Meat Paste Manu¬ Sculptors ... 1 Cartwrights 1 facturers ... 1 Shoemakers .. 14 Coffee Grinders 2 Metal Founders 5 Sugar Boilers . . ... 1 Coach Builders 3 M miners 8 Tailors... ... 22 Compass Adjusters ... 1 Mineral Water Makers 2 Timber Merchants ... 7 Dressmakers ... 8 Net Makers 2 T insmi ths ... 4 Drysalters 1 Oil and Guano Tripe Preparers 2 Dyers ... 1 Manufacturers ... 1 Upholsterers ... .’J 5 Engineers 13 Patent Fire Lighter Waggoners ... 1 Farriers 1 Manufacturers 1 Firewood Manufacturers 2 Paint Manufacturers .. 2 Total ... ...256 Smoke Abatement.—^No complaint w^as received during the year of a nuisance from any chimney emitting black smoke. Observations were taken as deemed desirable, but no cause for action was found. Under the new Smoke Abatement Act, which will come into operation on July 1st, 1927, extended definitions are given which may cause a greater amount of work in supervising furnaces and observation of chimneys than hitherto, but the Borough is, when compared with others, in a favourable condition, as the motive power in an increasingly large number of factories and workshops is electricity.