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viate these difficulties, the use of metal bins on wheels
has been recommended, but such bins would be kept
in the stable and would probably cause as much
nuisance as the old dung-pit. The difficulty of
getting rid of the manure increases each year, and
makes the matter of its proper storage the more
important. It is at present impossible to offer any
suggestion for dealing satisfactorily with the matter.
Factory Acts.—The complaints received from the
Chief Inspector of Workshops during the past year have
been almost exclusively of overcrowding, mostly
during the “season.” Under the 1891 Act, there is no
standard for overcrowding during day hours, but one
of 250 cubic feet per person has been taken as a
working rule. Owing to the great differences which
exist in the manner and efficiency of ventilation, it
seems desirable that some other standard than cubic
space should be adopted as a guage of overcrowding.
There should be no difficulty in estimating the chemical
impurity of the air at the time of inspection and
using the result of such examination, as the basis for
further action.
Bake-houses.—All the bake-houses of the district
have been inspected twice during the past year, and
many improvements effected in their sanitary arrangements.
In the future they will be inspected quarterly
and at such other intervals as may appear to be
necessary.