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Further details are given in the Appendix, Tables 7, 8 and 9, which are in the form suggested by
the Medical Officer of Health for the County of London, with a view to securing uniformity of statistics
in the Metropolis, and have been approved by the Chief Inspector of Factories.
Table VII. gives further details of inspections of factories, workshops and workplaces.
Table VIII. gives details of matters dealt with.
Table IX. gives details respecting outworkers.
BAKEHOUSES.
At the beginning of the year 1903, there were 38 bakehouses in the Borough, of which 19 were
in Bloomsbury and St. Giles, and 19 in Holborn.
The following is a list of bakehouses in the Borough.
Bloomsbury and St. Giles,
2 Bloomsbury Court.
21 Marchmont Street.
77 Marchmont Street.
10 Bury Street.
8 Museum Street.
166 Drury Lane.
60 Neal Street.
155 High Holborn.
24, 26 and 28 New Oxford Street.
162 High Holborn.
217 and 218 High Holborn (Holborn
Restaurant).
21 Sardinia Street.
200 Shaftesbury Avenue.
63 High Street.
88 Southampton Row.
33 Tottenham Court Road.
19 Little Earl Street.
5 Little St. Andrew Street.
6 Torrington Place.
Holbobn.
50 Lamb's Conduit Street.
172 Clerkenwell Road.
9 Cosmo Place.
13 Leigh Street.
49-57 Farringdon Road (factory).
19 Red Lion Street.
33 Great Ormond Street.
50 Red Lion Street.
1 Greville Street.
74 Red Lion Street.
8 High Holborn.
92 Theobald's Road.
58 Leather Lane (now being rebuilt).
124 Theobald's Road.
70 Leather Lane.
136 Theobald's Road.
6 Lamb's Conduit Street.
36 Warner Street.
28 Lamb's Conduit Street.
All are underground bakehouses, with the exception of 2, Bloomsbury Court, 162, High
Holborn, 88, Southampton Row, 74, Red Lion Street, 28, Lamb's Conduit Street, one of the two at
6, Lamb's Conduit Street, and 58, Leather Lane.
These bakehouses, especially the 32 underground ones, occupied a great 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, 69 inspections were made by the Sanitary Inspectors, and 5 notices for minor
defects were served during the year.
In addition, many detailed reports with plans and sections, and the measurements of the various
dimensions, and the areas of the windows and other openings for light and ventilation of all the
underground bakehouses were prepared.
In December, 1902, the Council informed the occupiers of all underground bakehouses in the
Borough that after the Ist day of January, 1904, an underground bakehouse shall not be used unless
certified by the Council to be suitable for that purpose, and requesting occupiers to inform the Council
whether they wished to make application for such certificate.