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The Sanitary work of the Department shows that a total of
17,754 houses and premises have been inspected or reinspected
during the year. The details respecting the various improvements
effected upon these premises will be gathered from the list appended,
from which it will be seen that the nuisances found in the course
of these visits occasioned the service of 1,727 intimation notices,
and the work required under these notices was carried out by the
respective parties upon the receipt of such notice in by far the
majority of cases. It was only necessary to serve the statutory
notice under section 4 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
in 313 cases, whilst the total number of statutory notices required,
including notices for ash-pits, &c, was 446, and in only two cases
was it necessary to proceed further and apply for summonses,
which resulted in magisterial orders requiring the necessary works
to be carried out.
Bakehouses. 160 visits of inspection have been made to
the various Bakehouses situated in the Borough. The fact that
a certificate would be required for continuing the use of underground
Bakehouses after the Ist January, 1904, was brought
personally to the knowledge of the various occupiers of underground
Bakehouses, and on November 6th the first application
was received for a certificate as required by the Factory and Workshops
Act, 1901, section 101, respecting suitability as regards
construction, light, ventilation, and in all other respects in
reference to one of these underground Bakehouses.
The question then arose as to the desirability or otherwise of
drawing up fixed regulations for the guidance of the Committee in
determining these various matters in connection with the whole of
the underground Bakehouses throughout the Borough, when it