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grounds unfit for use or occupation as a bakehouse." The
Board, therefore, trusted "that the Sanitary Authority would
give such instructions to their officers as would ensure that
the bakehouses in their district to which the Act applies,
will be systematically inspected by them, and that when the
statutory provisions are not complied with, that the facts
will be reported to the Sanitary Authority, and that they
will cause to be instituted such proceedings as may be
necessary for a due enforcement of the law."
The attention of the Public Health and Housing Committee
of the London County Council having also been
drawn to this subject, they instructed the Council's Medical
Officer of Health to report "on the sanitary condition of bakehouses
in London," and they subsequently submitted a report
to the Council, arising out of the Medical Officer's report, in
which it was stated that they were satisfied that it is "very
desirable that the provisions of the law with reference to
bakehouses should be amended." They thought, moreover,
that "the central Metropolitan Authority, rather than the
local Sanitary Authority, should have charge of the bakehouses
of London, and that the Council should be empowered
to make regulations which might deal with the
following points :—
" (I) The position and structure of workshops and workplaces used as bakehouses
and of rooms or places used in connection therewith.
" (2) The lighting, ventilation (including air-space) cleansing, drainage and
water supply of such premises.
" (3) The provision and situation of water-closets and urinals in connection with
bakehouses.
" (4) The prohibition of the use of the bakehouses for other purposes than the
preparation of food.
" (5) The use of any room adjoining or opening into any bakehouse.
" (6) The conduct of the business, and the prevention of the contamination upon
the premises of any articles of food prepared in any bakehouse, or of any
materials to be used in the preparation of food.
" (7) The mode of making application for license to use any premises as a bakehouse."