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Pig
keeping.
Swine were found to be kept at 15, Weston Street,
at Byram House, Clapham Common, and at the
Farm, Wandsworth Common. As these were all within forty
yards of a public place the usual proceedings were ordered to
be taken and the keeping of pigs ceased.
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Slaughter The usual inspection of these premises was made
cowhouses, by a Sub-Committee. The renewal of the license to a
cowhouse to a dairy in Hope Street was objected to on the
grounds of defective paving and improper receptacles for food,
together with the housing of a number of young cattle in unlicensed
sheds. The renewal of the license was opposed at the
meeting of the Public Health Committee of the London County
Council, when the license was only renewed on the understanding
that the Vestry's requirements were carried out, which has
since been done.
A bakehouse is defined in the Act of 1891 as " any
place in which are baked bread, biscuits or
confectionery, from the baking and selling of which a profit is
derived. 1 here are in the Parish one hundred and nine premises
conforming to this description. They were formerly inspected
by the factory inspectors, and as bakehouses in the Metropolis
were many and the inspectors but few, the majority were found
to be, when the duty of inspection was transferred to the Local
Sanitary Authority, to be in a most insanitary condition;
defective drains, closets opening into and ventilated by the bakehouse,
and a general condition of dirt and neglect of the most
ordinary sanitary precautions prevailing.
Since the transfer of inspection to the Local Authority,
every bakehouse in the parish has been inspected half-yearly
and the results entered in the register and submitted to the
Sanitary Committee. In the few cases in which defects are
found to exist re-inspection takes place until defects are
remedied.
Rakehouses.