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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911.
underground bake-house was being used, although not so used at the passing of the Factory Act of
1901. The occupier was informed that the use of the room was illegal, and it was thereupon discontinued.
Dr. Allan, medical officer of health of Westminster, refers to the use of market basements for pea shelling
and walnut shelling, and directs attention to one where 20 women were found, who stated that they were
occasionally employed from 3 a.m. to 5 p.m. In another basement, where fruit sorting was being performed,
there was a disused water closet in a very objectionable condition. Overcrowding during working
hours is also found in the neighbourhood of the market and special inspection is necessary to
ensure better conditions. There is mention in one or two of the reports of unventilated or defective
gas heating arrangements, but this defect appears to be much less frequent than in previous years.
With regard to Islington, it is stated that the drying of clothes in bakehouses still continues in some
instances, and the closing of inlet ventilators is prevalent and requires careful watching,
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Places where food is prepared for sale.
Section 43 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902, gives powers for controlling
the conditions under which ice cream is prepared for sale. The provisions of this section are now widely
applied and nearly all the reports give account of the action taken.
Ice-cream
premises.
The following table summarises
the information thus available and shows the number of these premises in each metropolitan borough
and other particulars

Further powers for the sanitary control of premises upon which food is prepared for sale are
conferred upon sanitary authorities by section 8 of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act of 1908.
This section provides against contamination of the food by urinals, waterclosets, ashpits, etc.,
requires that the water supply shall be free from contamination by any watercloset, prohibits drain
inlets within the building and the deposit of refuse beyond that which is required for the purposes
of the trade, and, moreover, requires due cleanliness to be observed in regard to the room or shop
and the apparatus and utensils and persons employed in it. A considerable amount of work has been
done in London under these powers, varied conditions being dealt with in their administration,
Other
premises
where food is
prepared for
sale.