116. After taking up accommodation in the factory the individual tenants have to provide their own partition walls and front walls facing on to the verandahs. The internal layout of each factory is subject to the approval of the Labour Department and the Fire Brigade. Individual concerns have also to make their own arrangements for the installation of water, electric light, and power or gas supplies.
117. The design of the building and the fact that a large number of concerns is accommodated in close proximity to each other, has made it necessary to exclude certain trades. These trades fall into four main categories: those that require more storage space than could be provided, for example bamboo yards, waste or scrap metal dealers; foundries and the like, for which adequate ventilation and flues cannot be provided; waste cotton refiners and bedding manufacturers, because of the obnoxious processes involved and because they generally require more space than could be made available; and all food factories, since it was considered that the facilities available were not sufficient to provide hygienic accommodation for the processing of food.
118. Though a higher rent is charged for ground floor units their ease of access has made them very much more popular than those on the upper floors. However, certain trades such as metal-ware manu- facturers, weaving factories or small sawmills, because of the size and weight of the machinery used or the nature of the work carried on, are given priority for ground floor rooms. Any process which might constitute a fire risk, as for example plastic work, is accommodated on the top floor.
119. The majority of concerns to which space has been allocated in the Cheung Sha Wan Factory have come from the Wong Tai Sin and Tai Kok Tsui areas, and by the end of the year under review sixty eight factories and workshops had been allocated 286 units out of the total of 470 units in the factory. It is expected that the remaining units will have been filled by the end of May, 1958.
120. Clearances of these factories are carried out by the Mobile Unit and have presented a number of problems not met with in domestic clearances. Where a concern is using processes considered unsuitable for accommodation in the factory, the proprietor has to be persuaded either to modify his method of work, or to forego space in the factory. The exact dimensions of the working space within the squatter factory have to be calculated so that the number of units to be allocated can be
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