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" For your further information, I also forward a statement showing in what particulars
the premises in your occupation appear not to conform with the Council's requirements.
" The annexed Notes on certain of these requirements will, it is hoped, be of service to
you should you decide to apply for the Council's certificate.
" Should you so decide, will you be so good as to forward to the Medical Officer of Health,
at your early convenience, a specification of the work you propose to carry out ?
"I am to suggest that it would be undesirable to put any such work in hand until the
said specification shall have been submitted.
The Requirements as printed above (page 102), were appended. The " Notes on the
Requirements for the guidance of Applicants for the Council's Certificate of Suitability," were as
follows:—
Requirement No.
(4) Floor. The floor may be composed of Granolithic Paving, or Rubbed York Stone
with cement joints, or approved paving tiles laid in cement, or any other
similar approved material. In every case the paving must be laid on six
inches of proper cement concrete.
(5) Walls. The surface of the walls may be composed of white glazed bricks or white
glazed tiles, or Crystopal, or Opalite, or any similar approved material;
but the walls, where not exposed to the direct heat of the oven, may be
plastered and finished to a smooth surface in Keene's Cement, or similar
composition, and painted.
(6) Ceiling. Open ceiling joists must be covered by approved metallic plates, or other
approved material, effectively jointed and enamelled.
A plastered ceiling may be finished to a smooth surface in Keene's Cement,
or similiar composition, and painted.
(8) Light. Where practicable, the most satisfactory method of securing the maximum
of daylight is by the insertion of prismatic lights.
(9) Ventilation. Efficient inlet and outlet dust-excluding tubes will be required, aided, if
necessary, by mechanical power.
(14) Drainage. Before the new floor is laid, the hydraulic test will be applied to all drains
running under the bakehouse.
Any soil-pipe passing through the bakehouse must be proved to be gas-tight,
and be protected from risk of damage.
Lavatory and It is very desirable that provision for ablution and the storing of clothing
Clothes Room. should be made outside the bakehouse.
A copy of the foregoing letter, the Requirements, the "Notes" and the particulars in
regard to which the bakehouse appeared not to conform with the requirements, was sent to the
owner of the premises also, together with Section 101 of the Act above cited (page 99) in March.
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
The need of amendments to this Act is recognised, and it was expected that the County
Council would introduce a Bill during the session of 1900. In February, 1899, a letter had been
received by the late Vestry, from the Public Health Committee of that body, desiring information
as to amendments which, in their opinion, should be made. The communication was referred to a
sub-committee of the Sanitary Committee, together with reports by the vestry clerk, the surveyor,
and the medical officer of health ; and also a communication from the Society of Medical Officers
of Health, embodying suggestions for amendments and additions to the Act. The sub-committee
made recommendations for amending section 2, and especially by a definition of " overcrowding,"
corresponding to the provisions of the Council's second bye-law for registered houses. They further
proposed that section 5 should be amended, so as to enable the sanitary authority, upon obtaining
a closing order, to evict the tenants. Other proposed amendments dealt with offensive trades,