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The Committee also considered that—
" (a) No premises should be used as bakehouses which are not licensed by the
Council, and that a license should be operative for a period of five years,
power being however given to the Council to suspend any license for
contravention of the regulations.
" (b) That all bakehouses which are occupied for the first time after these
regulations come into force should, before such bakehouses are occupied,
be made to comply with all the regulations.
"(c) That bakehouses which are occupied before the by-laws come into force
should be exempt for a period of five years from the regulations, as far as
these will require structural alterations other than those now required
under existing law, but that after this period they should be required to
comply with all the regulations."
The Committee called attention to the fact that the
Home Secretary had introduced a Bill for amending the
Factory and Workshop Acts, which seemed to them " to
afford an opportunity for amending the law relating to bakehouses."
They therefore recommended—
"That the Council do endorse the views expressed in this report, and
give instructions for a copy of this report, and of the medical officer's
report, to be sent to the President of the Local Government Board, with
a request that he will take steps to obtain an amendment of the law
relating to bakehouses in the manner here proposed."
It appearing to me undesirable that the control of the
bakehouses should be taken from the Local Authorities and
handed over the Central Authority, as had been done in respect
of the slaughter-houses and the cow-sheds; but obviously
desirable that the central authority should be empowered to
make bye-laws for regulating the business of a baker, so as to
secure uniformity throughout the metropolis ; and the report
of the Committee containing nothing to indicate what had
been done by the Sanitary Authorities with a view to obtain
such an amendment of the law as would secure proper supervision
of bakehouses, 1 thought the opportunity suitable for