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Underground Bakehouses.
Section 101 (2) of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, provides
that "after the 1st day of January, 1904, an underground bakehouse
shall not be used unless certified by the district Council to be suitable
for that purpose."
Further, an underground bakehouse is for the first time defined as
being " a bakehouse, any baking room of which is so situate that the
surface of the floor is more than three feet below the surface of the
footway of the adjoining street, or the ground adjoining or nearest to
the room."
It was obvious that although these premises had been, as in the case
of over ground bakehouses regularly inspected, a special inspection
would be necessary before the Council could be in a position to consider
the question of granting certificates, and this was commenced in the
month of October.
This work has taken up a considerable amount of the time of the
Senior Sanitary Inspector and myself.