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In accordance with the desire of the County Council, certificates of
satisfactory disinfection after infectious disease occurring at dairies or
milkshops are now forwarded by me to the occupiers, thus preventing
unnecessary delay.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
There is a large and increasing number of factories and workshops
in the District.
The Hoard has at present no register of them.
Mr. Bennett has inspected 29, and Mr. Freeman 71 of these during
the year, and the sanitary defects have been remedied.
The Factory Inspectors supplied the Hoard with information
concerning some of these.
In many cases, premises called a factory or workshop, really include
several tenement factories or workshops.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
Evelyn Buildings.—I reported to the Sanitary Committee the
insanitary state of these buildings and the defective lighting of some of
the rooms, arul the very defective lighting and ventilation of the passages.
The ends of the passages were so dark that not only one could not see
the numbers on the doors of the tenements, but in many of them not
oven the doors themselves, nor a person standing close beside one. After
a visit by the Sanitary Committee a summons for a closing order under
the above Act was taken. At the time of the Magistrate's visit much
work had already been done, and most of the tenements were then
unoccupied. The Magistrate refused to make an order, but adjourned
the summons from time to time until the work required to be done was
completed.
CLOSING ORDERS UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH
(LONDON) ACT, 1891.
Half Moon Court, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Verulam Streot, 35, 36, 37.
Gray's Inn Passage, 1, 2
Richbell Place, 2, 3, 4, 5
Emerald Street, 6, 8, 12, and
Red Lion Street, 26,
were not closed till the early part of this year.