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In connection with this subject the subjoined letter has
been received from the London County Council. The register
referred to has been kept in this parish for many years.
London County Council,
Spring Gardens,
17th December, 1895.
Sir,
The Council has had under consideration the provisions
of Section 27 of the Factory and Workshop Act 1895, which
will come into operation on the 1st of January, 1896. In
view of the fact that sub-section 3 of this section prohibits
the use as a bakehouse of a place under ground unless it is
so used at the commencement of the Act, it occurs to the
Council that it would materially assist the London Sanitary
Authorities in carrying out the section if a complete register
were made by each authority of the bakehouses in occupation
in its district on the 1st of January next. As new bakehouses
were constructed they could be added to the register
with a record of the time at which they came into use. This
register would be very useful for reference if these should be
needed to decide the date at which any premises were first
used as bakehouses. In communicating this suggestion I am
directed to express the Council's hope that your Board will
give instructions for the preparation of such a register.
I am Sir,
Your obedient servant,
H. De la Hooke,
Clerk of the Council.
Public
Health
(London)
Act, 1891.
The procedure of the Sanitary Department is
almost entirely based upon the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which consolidated
and amended the various Acts under which the Sanitation of
London had been previously carried out. It contained also
many valuable provisions which had hitherto only been extra
Metropolitan and contained in the Public Health Act, 1875,