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inspected in 1894. By the "Factory and Workshop
Act, 1895," no underground bakehouse may
be opened or re-opened, if closed on the first day
of January, 1896. In the list of bakehouses in the
Appendix, the underground bakehouses so occupied
are indicated, also the underground bakehouses not
in use.
There is one detail in baking, very harmful to
the bakers, to remedy which no serious effort appears
to have been made. To secure the proper "rising"
of the dough, every aperture is closed, and the
bread room becomes almost as hot as an oven. The
"rising'' could be effected with more certainty,
which would improve the bread, if the dough were
placed in a closed receptacle, somewhat on the
lines of an incubator, heated from the oven. The
men could then work in a place which could be
fairly cool and decently ventilated. Lung diseases
from working in hot vitiated air are now only too
common among journeymen bakers.
Removal of Refuse.—The work of dusting, slopping,
etc., is not under the supervision of the Department.
The refuse first conies within the purview
of the sanitary officials when it reaches the wharves.
The past year has made it clear that the canals cannot
be relied upon at all times as channels for the removal
of refuse out of the Parish. For six weeks in the first
quarter of the year not a boat left the canal basin, yet
all this time the refuse of this and certain other