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v.—FOOD.
FOOD PREMISES.
The Licensed slaughter-houses, cow-sheds, and dairies have been regularlyinspected.
The bakehouses were also inspected twice during the year, and
the necessary cleansing enforced. From time to time fish-frying shops and
marine stores have been inspected. The markets and market streets were
kept under observation daily, and also on Saturday nights and Sunday
mornings during the summer months.
BAKEHOUSES.
By the Factory and Workshops Act, 1895, it is enacted —
Sec. 27. (3)—A place underground shall not be used as a bakehouse unless
it is so used at the commencement of this Act, and if any place is so
used in contravention of this Act, it shall be deemed to be a
workshop not kept in conformity with the principal Act.
This Act came into operation on the first day of January, 1896. In the
Appendix (List Y.) to this Report will be found a complete list of Bakehouses
in St. Pancras, in occupation on the 1st January, 1896. This list gives the
situation of each bakehouse, the name of the occupier, distance of the floor
above or below ground level, and the distance of the ceiling above or below
ground level, and also a consecutive number.
On the page next hereto is a diagram upon which the level of the ceiling
and of the floor of each bakehouse, with regard to ground level is represented.
The upper thick black line represents the ceiling and the lower thick black
line the floor, the centre line represents the ground level and lines above and
below the distances in feet, which are marked on the sides of the table. The
numbers along the top and bottom of the diagram, are the key numbers of the
bakehouses represented.
Following the diagram is a table consisting of double columns of figures.
The left-hand columns of figures are the key numbers of the bakehouses as
they appear on the diagram in consecutive order of level, and the right-hand
columns of figures are the numbers of the bakehouses as they appear in the
List in the Appendix in consecutive order of locality.
It will be observed that of the 200 bakehouses in St. Pancras 30, or 15 per
cent., hardly one-sixth of the total number, have the floor above ground level;
51, or 74.5 per cent., nearly three-fourths of the 200, have the floor six feet or
more below the level of the ground.
Seventy-seven bakehouses, or 61.5 per cent. have the ceiling below ground
line. Of those that have the ceiling above ground line, two have the level
over 10 feet above, four over 9 feet, eight over 8 feet, fifteen over 7 feet, and
the rest, 171, or 85.5 per cent., have the ceiling less than 7 feet above ground
level.
Although there is no statement in the Act that any portion whatever of a
newly occupied or re-occupied bakehouse shall be permitted to be below the
level of the ground, it will be a question, provided only a small portion be
below ground level, and that portion be protected by a dry area of sufficient