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This is intended as a compromise for dealing
with a vexed question of many years' standing,
being an attempt to modify an admitted evil and an
obvious and much-needed improvement, without
prematurely interfering with the interest of
traders, who will have three years in which to
adapt their bakehouses to modern requirements.
Whether the Legislature may pass the Bill or
not, no Sanitary Authority should permit the
use of any underground bakehouse, such
a situation being opposed to health and decency.
The following are the particulars of defects
found in factories and workshops, and reported
to me by H. M. Inspectors; also the steps
taken by my department to effect improvement.
Fifty-five cases were thus notified in the
course of the year, compared with sixty-five in
1898, and thirty-four in 1897, distributed as
under:—
EAST DISTRICT.
Situation of Premises. Sanitary Improvements effected.
14, Aldgate
26, Aldgate High Street Overcrowding abated and ventilation
improved.