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The Sanitary work of the Department shows that a total of
19,891 houses and premises have been inspected or reinspected
during the year; 1,946 intimation notices have been served, and
378 statutory notices, whilst it was only found necessary to issue
summonses and thus institute magisterial proceedings, when
orders were obtained and enforced in four cases. The number of
complaints received from the general public during the year was
248.
Bakehouses. Two hundred and fifteen inspections have
been paid to the Bakehouse premises in the Borough, and 7 cases
of nuisance existing have been abated. The whole of the underground
Bakehouses have also been inspected, and the necessary
certificates obtained by the persons occupying the Bakehouses in
all but two cases. At the end of 1903 there were 33 underground
Bakehouses in use within the Borough, the use of 12 of these
premises has been discontinued, 4 of the owners apparently themselves
considered that their premises could not be rendered
suitable, for they made no application for a certificate ; the other
9 made application for certificates, and were informed upon what
conditions with respect to alteration such certificate would be
granted; in one case the owner, rather than carry out the
necessary works, which in this instance were, and still are, very
necessary indeed, was able, by taking down the wall shutting off
the Bakehouse from a lumber room at the rear, to thereby remove
his premises altogether from the scope of these provisions relating
to underground Bakehouses, for by this means the Bakehouse
proper was made to be on a level with the ground at the rear ; the
other 8 owners have decided not to carry out these works, and
their premises have been closed, and in three of these cases,
Bakehouses have been built above ground in substitution for