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The Sanitary work of the Department shows that a total of
16,030 houses and premises have been inspected or reinspected
during the year. Information in detail, showing the various
improvements effected upon these premises will be gathered from
the lists appended. The number of intimation notices served
under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, section 3, was
1,688, and so many of the matters were dealt with by the respective
parties on the receipt of this preliminary or intimation notice, that
it was only necessary to serve 613 statutory notices, and it was
only found necessary to issue summonses in three of these latter
cases, magisterial orders being obtained in each of the cases.
The number of complaints received from the general public
amounted to 169.
Occasional lists of complaints have been received from the
Mansion House Council on the dwellings of the poor, whose
inspector apparently visits this district occasionally. We are
always pleased to receive bonà, fide complaints as to insanitary
conditions from any person or persons, when the matters complained
of always have our best attention.
Bakehouses. Two hundred and fifteen visits of inspection
have been paid to the 76 bakehouse premises within the Borough.
One of these premises is a Factory Bakehouse, and 75 are Workshop
Bakehouses. One Factory Bakehouse has been added
during the year, leaving a total on the register at the end of the
year of 77 premises. The fact that the clauses in the Factory and
Workshops Act, 1901, dealing with the certification of underground
Bakehouses would come into operation at the beginning of 1904,
was again brought to the notice of all occupiers of this class of
premises, and applications for the necessary certificate were