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was required. In both of these the necessary notice was
served, and the defects remedied.
The order of the Secretary of State, dated October 31st,
1892, under the Factory and Workshop Acts in regard to
out-workers in certain occupations was put in force in this
sub-district during the year. It has been so far of no
practical utility to us. A notice was served on all the
occupiers of the factories and workshops referred to,
requiring them to keep lists of their out-workers which
should be open to inspection at any time. During the
year a list of these out-workers was drawn up twice, and
as directed by the Board, notices were forwarded to
the various Sanitary Authorities of the districts where
these workers resided. These lists may possibly have
been of some use to these authorities. In our own parish
however we have received no lists from outside districts of
any out-workers residing within our boundaries. For all
practical purposes therefore the order is a dead letter, so
far as we are concerned. To carry it out efficiently, all
lists should be sent to a central authority at regular periods,
and it would be their duty to make abstracts of these lists
and send them to the various sanitary districts concerned.
The bake-houses were inspected as usual twice during
the year and the necessary lime-whiting carried out. They
were all found to be in a satisfactory condition. There
has lately been a great attack on and a so-called exposure
of the insanitary condition of London bake-houses.
To judge from some of the reports lately published, the
public would be made to believe that London bake-houses
are sinks of sanitary iniquities, in which all kinds of horrors
are allowed to pass unnoticed. A cry for fresh and more
stringent legislation has been raised in regard to these
places. It appears to me, so far as I can judge from
my own district, there is a great deal of the alarmist