[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough.

  • Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In all cases satisfactory provision for refuse disposal sanitation and water supply, were made before the granting of the necessary licences. 4 (n)—Factories Act, 1937. There were 288 premises in the Borough registered as factories. The majority of these, small premises employing a few persons, mainly consisted of garages, laundries, dyers and cleaners, boot-repairers, watchmakers, builders, printers and food manufacturing premises. At 78 premises no mechanical power is used whilst the remaining 210 employ mechanical power of one type or another. One hundred and twenty-nine visits were made to non¬ mechanical factories and 349 visits to mechanical factories during which 36 defects were found. Defects remedied in the year numbered 33. Factories Act, 1937. 1. Inspections. Number on Register Number of Premises Inspections Written notices Occupiers prosecuted (i) Factories in which Sections 1, 2, -3, 4, and 6, are to be enforced by Local Authori¬ ties 78 129 .5 (ii) Factories not included in (i) in which Section 7 is enforced by the Local Authority... 209 349 31 (iii) Other Premises in which Section 7 is enforced by the Local Authority (excluding out-workers’ premises) ... 1 •— —.. — Total 288 478 36 —•