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Holborn 1904
Report for the year 1904 of the Medical Officer of Health
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All are underground with the exception of 2 Bloomsbury Court, 162 High Holborn, 88 Southampton
Row, 74 Red Lion Street, 28 Lamb's Conduit Street, 6 Lamb's Conduit Street and 91 Leather
Lane.
As I mentioned in my Report last year, the bakehouses, especially the underground ones,
occupied a good deal of the time of the Public Health Committee, the Town Clerk and the Borough
Surveyor, as well as this Department. In addition to my inspections and detailed reports on various
occasions and inspections and detailed reports by the Borough Surveyor, 272 inspections were made by
the Sanitary Inspectors and 17 notices for minor defects were served during the year.
The following seven underground bakehouses received the Certificate by the end of 1903, as required by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,:—
| Situation of Bakehouse. | Date Certificate granted. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 217 and 218, High Holborn, (Holborn Restaurant) | 10th June, 1903 | ||
| 6, Torrington Place | 10th June, 1903 | ||
| 63, High Street | 29th July, 1903 | ||
| 77, Marchmont Street | 29th July, 1903 | ||
| 92, Theobald's Road | 14th October, 1903 | ||
| 9, Cosmo Place | 25th November, 1903 | ||
| 21, Marchmont Street | 25th November, 1903 |
The following twenty received the Certificate during the year 1904:—
| Situation of Bakehouse. | Date Certificate granted. | |
|---|---|---|
| 50, Lamb's Conduit Street | 13th January, 1904 | |
| 5. Little St. Andrew Street | 13th January, 1904 | |
| 136, Theobald's Road | 13th January, 1904 | |
| 49 to 57, Farringdon Road | 10th February, 1904 | |
| 13, Leigh Street | 10th February, 1904 | |
| 172, Clerkenwell Road | 24th February, 1904 | |
| 1, Greville Street | 9th March, 1904 | |
| 155, High Holborn | 9th March, 1904 | |
| 8, Museum Street | 9th March, 1904 | |
| 60, Neal Street | 9th March, 1904 | |
| 24, 26 and 28. New Oxford Street | 9th March, 1904 | |
| 124, Theobald's Road | 9th March, 1904 | |
| 166, Drury Lane | 13th April, 1904 | |
| 19, Little Earl Street | 13th April, 1904 | |
| 36, Warner Street | 13th April, 1904 | |
| 200, Shaftesbury Avenue | 27th April, 1904 | |
| 10, Bury Street | 22nd June, 1904 | |
| 19 Red Lion Street | 22nd June, 1904 | |
| 33, Great Ormond Street | 26th October, 1904 | |
| 50, Red Lion Street | 26th October, 1904 | |
For the following five underground bakehouses no certificate was granted :.
8, High Holborn, which is no longer used as an underground bakehouse.
233, Tottenham Court Road. Not used as an underground bakehouse since December 31st,
1903, and the premises were demolished in 1904.
21, Sardinia Street. Was closed in October, 1904, and has since been demolished in connection
with the new Kingsway. For this reason the Council allowed the occupation to be
temporarily continued.
70, Leather Lane. Is included in the Union Buildings area. The Council refused the
application for a certificate as the bakehouse did not comply with the Council's requirements,
but at the request of the London County Council allowed the occupation of the
underground bakehouse to be temporarily continued, as the London County Council was
building a new bakehouse for this occupier on the site of an old bakehouse at No. 58,