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Bakehouses.
12. I have inspected the bakehouses as usual in April and
October, and can only repeat what I said last year, viz.: that they
maintain the former standard as to sanitary conditions, but this
standard can hardly be a high one until it is made compulsory
for them to be certified as fit for their purpose before occupation
Cesspools.
13. I am glad to be able to report a considerable reduction in
the number of cesspools existing in the district. Only 81 are
now being emptied by the Surveyor, as compared with 284 a
year ago. The reduction is mainly due to the new sewer at
Abbey Wood.
14. My attention was called in the summer to a serious
nuisance on the Heathfield estate, caused by the overflowing of
cesspools into a ditch which passes into a pond. One of the
cesspools was found not to be watertight. I reported on thematter
at the time, and the nuisance is now kept under by emptying the
cesspools about once a week. But there will be no satisfactory
abatement until the cesspools are replaced by a sewer. This is
I believe under the Committee's consideration. This nuisance
was aggravated by the fact that the ditch in question flows under
a roadway made of house refuse, which continually slides into
the ditch.
Dust Shoots.
15. Bust Shoots in improper places have as in former years
been the subject of several reports to the Board. By the Byelaws
of the County Council it is now forbidden to deposit house