View report page

93
A daily list of premises at which infectious disease exists
is supplied to the Librarian, who takes the necessary action for
the collection of books which may be out and for the time prevents
any further ones being issued.
Bakehouses. The half-yearly inspection of bakehouses was
carried out in May and September.
At the May inspection there were 108 in active use, and with
fifteen exceptions the cleansing and lime-washing had been
carried out, in which cases intimations were served, followed in
two instances by statutory notices by order of the Health
Committee, which were subsequently complied with.
At the September inspection it was found necessary to serve
several notices, which were duly complied with. At that time
the bakehouses in occupation numbered 104. The particulars of
both these inspections will be found given in report of meetings
of Health Committee of May 3rd and November 1st.
72a Wiustanley Road. These premises were unoccupied on
the 1st January, 1896, and in accordance with the general
interpretation of Sect. 27 (3) of the Factory and Workshops Act,
1895, were apparently prohibited from further use as a bakehouse.
The Act provides 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.
It will be remembered that the Vestry therefore decided to
take proceedings in the matter, and the case came before
the magistrates, at the South Western Police Court,
who made an order for the closing of the bakehouse and
inflicted a fine.