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rooms, &c., required cleansing and lime-whiting, that there
was only one water closet for the house and the work people combined,
and other sanitary defects of a minor character.
At a tailor's premises, situated No. 236 York Road, the workroom
was found dirty and over-crowded, the room in question
only containing 879 cubic feet of air space or a deficiency of 74
feet per person employed therein when not working overtime or
using gas. It was found that one water closet only was provided
for the work people and the proprietor's family.
The Committee gave directions for notices to be served in
these three cases for abatement of the nuisances complained of,
which were subsequently complied with.
February 18th.—The Chief Inspector reported that at No. 36
Lavender Road the water closet had been taken out, and refixed
without giving the notice required by the Bye-laws of the
London County Council, copies of which had been supplied upon
two occasions.
The Committee therefore directed proceedings to be taken,
the Magistrate ordering the costs to be paid by defendant.
March 3rd.—The Chief Inspector at this Meeting reported
that the Factory and Workshops Act, which came into operation
on the 1st January, 1896, enacted with respect to Bakehouses,
"that a place underground shall not be used as a bakehouse
unless it is so used at the commencement of this Act; and
if any place is so used in contravention of this Act, it shall be
deemed to be a workshop not kept in conformity with the principal
act," and that in contravention of the section in question, the
underground bakehouse at No. 72a Winstanley Road, although it
had not been used since the beginning of November, 1895, and
was not so used or occupied on 1st January, 1896, was on the
27th February found to be then occupied, and was proposed to
be used again as a bakehouse. That he had cautioned the