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Bakehouses for a certificate of suitability. Each of these
applications is now being dealt with.
It will be unnecessary to do more than summarize the special
report referred to above. It dealt with the history of Bakehouse
legislation, the provisions of the new Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, and the practical meaning of the new Act to Finsbury.
The report also contained full particulars of all the underground
and aboveground Bakehouses in the Borough, and the general
conditions obtaining.
The following is a list of the 46 underground Bakehouses at
present existent in the Borough:—
Amwell Street, 21, 53; Aylesbury Street, 14; Barnsburv
Road, 6; Bath Street, 42, 66; Bowling Green Lane, 11 ; Central
Street, 29, 124; Chapel Street, 2; Corporation Row, 36; Compton
Street, 1, 68; Exmouth Street, 14, 17; Farringdon Road, 88;
Finsbury Pavement, 109; Goswell Road, 5, 23^, 236, 272,281;
Henry Street, 45; Ironmonger Row, 58; King's Cross Road, 92;
Lloyd's Row, 35; Macclesfield Terrace, 2; Margaret Street, 16;
Myddelton Street, 4; Northampton Street, 32; Penton Street, 30;
Red Lion Street, 40; Rosoman Street, 51; St. John Street, 56;
St. John Street Road, 1, 61, 131, 190 Southampton Street, 42;
Tysoe Street, 2; Whitecross Street, 61, 106, 148, 169; White
Lion Street, 72 ; Wilmington Street, 1.
The main particulars respecting these 46 Bakehouses are set
out in detail in the special report.
There are also in Finsbury 23 aboveground Bakehouses
situated in the following streets :
Aylesbury Street, 10; Chapel Street, 55, 65; Chiswell Street,
64; Clerkenwell Green, 6; Cloudesley Road, 4; Compton
Street, 60 : Field Place, 13 ; Goswell Road, 34, 94, 164, 202;
Helmet Row, 2; Lever Street, 136; Leverington Street, 2;
Liverpool Road, 7, 43; Old Street, 161; Penton Street, 18, 44.
Whitecross Street, 97, 177; Wynford Road, 22.
During the last few years these Bakehouses have shown much
improvement, and are now fairly well kept and generally clean.
Many of them are far from convenient and fall short of modern
requirements. But in the main, and especially in comparison
with the underground Bakehouses, they are satisfactory, and I
am glad to report that a general effort has been made towards
cleanliness and proper equipment. Periodical inspection has