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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
concluded that the law with reference to bakehouses
should be amended, and that the Council should be
empowered to make regulations which might deal with
the following points:—
"The position and structure of workshops and
workplaces used as bakehouses and of rooms
or places used in connection therewith.
"The lighting, ventilation (including air-space)
cleansing, drainage and water supply of such
premises.
"The provision and situation of water-closets and
urinals in connection with bakehouses.
"The prohibition of the use of the bakehouses for
other purposes than the preparation of food.
"The use of any room adjoining or opening into
any bakehouse.
"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.
"The mode of making application for licence to
use any premises as a bakehouse."
Later in the year (15th October), the Rev. L. G.
Vere and I attended as your delegates, a Conference of
Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities, convened by the
Vestry of St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark, to consider
the question of the regulation of bakehouses,
when the following resolutions were adopted:—
" That the present state of the law relating to bakehouses
requires amendment by the addition
of the following clauses to the 'Public Health
(London) Act, 1891':—
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