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Section 102. As regards every retail bakehouse, the provisions of
this part of this Act shall be enforced by the district council of
the district in which the retail bakehouse is situate, and not by
an inspector; and for the purpose of this section the medical
officer of health of the district council shall have and may
exercise all the powers of entry, inspection, taking legal proceedings
and otherwise of an inspector.
In this section the expression " retail bakehouse " means
any bakehouse or place, not being a factory, the bread, biscuits
or confectionery baked in which are sold, not wholesale, but
by retail, in some shop or place occupied with the bakehouse.
The principles which ought in my opinion to guide the Public
Health Committee in dealing with underground bakehouses are two.
viz.—
1. To cause the entire abolition of underground bakehouses
as quickly as possible.
2. To do this with as little cost as possible to the vested
interest of landlord and tenant.
In putting into practice the foregoing I recommend—
1. That the bakehouses at the following addresses, which
are, in my opinion, entirely unfit on sanitary grounds for use or
occupation as bakehouses, should not be certified as suitable
by the Local Authority.
127, "Well Street,
5, Lower Clapton Eoad,
40, Shacklewell Lane,
83, Dalston Lane,
117, Balls Pond Eoad.
It will be seen on reference to the details of the inspections of
these bakehouses, that their leases have almost expired, so that their