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After the first day of January 1896, a place underground may
not be newly used as a bakehouse.
The word "underground" is not defined, but I take it to mean an
underground room, within the meaning of Section 96 of the Public
Health (London) Act, which room is used for the purpose of baking
bread, &c.
Factory Act
1833, Sec. 17.
The regulation of the sanitation of Retail Bakehouses was transferred
from the Factory Inspector to the Medical Officer of Health
by this Act, and the Medical Officer of Health was invested with
the same powers of entry, inspection and taking legal proceedings
as a Factory Inspector, and by the Factory Act of 1891 and the
Public Health (London) Act of the same year, all Workshop-bakehouses
(whether retail or wholesale), were similarly transferred to
the Local Authority.
WORKSHOPS
Public Health
(London) Act
1891, Sec. 25
and 2 (9)
factory Act
91, Sec. 3.
The duty of preventing overcrowding, and enforcing cleanliness,
limewashing, ventilation, and freedom from effluvia in workshops of
all kinds was taken away in 1891 from the Factory Inspector and
laid upon the Sanitary Authority by the two Acts named in the
margin, but though the Factory Inspector is thus relieved from
sanitary duties in Workshops, he is still required to visit these places
for the purpose of regulating hours of employment and generally
carrying out the provisions of the Factory Acts. If in the course
of the visits he discovers "any act, neglect or default, in relation to
ventilation, cleanliness or W. C. accommodation, that Inspector is
required to give notice in writing to the Sanitary Authority in whose
district the workshop is situated, and it shall be the duty of the
Sanitary Authority to make such injury into the subject of the
notice, and take such action thereon as may seem proper to that
Authority for the purpose of enforcing the law, and it shall be the
duty of the Sanitary Authority to inform the Inspector of the proceedings
taken in consequence of the notice. If within a month of
this notice, no proceedings have been taken for punishing or remedying
the act, neglect, or default, the Factory Inspector may himself
take the like proceedings as the Sanitary Authority might have taken
and in successful proceedings, may recover the expenses incurred,
from the Sanitary Authority, or if he prefers he may proceed under
Factory Act
1891, Sec. 2
amended by
Factory Act
1895, Sec. 2
and 3.