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169
[1902
In addition to the 16 newly erected w.c.’s the following were among other
insanitary conditions dealt with:—
Defective sanitary conveniences 48
Sanitary conveniences, ill lighted, unventilated, or with
defective water supply 65
Drains untrapped, unventilated, &c. 52
Dustbins supplied or repaired 101
Miscellaneous 316
These matters are more fully set out in Tables CXIV. and CXV.
Bakehouses. - There were on the register at the end of the year 263
bakehouses, of which 119 were underground bakehouses. They
received 1,093 visits from Inspector West, apart from visits from the Medical
Officer of Health and the Superintendent.
The underground bakehouses received considerable attention in consequence
of the requirements of the Factory and Workshop Act that on and after the 1st
January, 1904, they shall not be used as bakehouses unless certified by the
Council to be suitable for the purpose. For the purposes of the Act an underground
bakehouse shall mean a bakehouse, any baking room of which is more
than three feet below the surface of the footway of the adjoining street or of
the ground adjoining or nearest to the room.
A bakehouse, it has also been ordered, shall not be certified as
suitable unless the Council is satisfied that it is suitable as regards construction,
light, ventilation, and in all other respects.
In view of this serious enactment the Public Health Committee issued the
following circular to the occupiers of the underground bakehouses in the
borough.
Metropolitan Borough of Islington.
Town Hall, Islington, N.
August, 1902.
Sir,
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.—Bakehouses.
I am directed by the Public Health Committed of my Council to call the
attention of Owners and Occupiers of Bakehouses in this Borough to the requirements
of sections 97 to 102 of the above Act which are set out on next page, and
particularly to the necessity of occupiers of underground bakehouses obtaining the
Council's certificate as to the suitability of their premises, without which such
bakehouses cannot be used after the 1st January, 1904.
Owing to the large number of these bakehouses in the Borough and to the fact
that many of them will require extensive alterations before they can be certified,
applications for the Council's certificate should be made on the annexed form not
later than the 1st October next.
I am, yours obediently,
Wm. F. Dewey,
Town Clerk.
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