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Applications for certificates were received from the occupiers of all the underground bakehouses
with the exception of No. 8, High Holborn.
At No. 233, Tottenham Court Road, the application was refused. The premises are about to be
demolished, and have not been used as an underground bakehouse since December 31st, 1903.
No. 8, High Holborn also is no longer used as an underground bakehouse.
The application for the certificate for the underground bakehouse at No. 6, Lamb's Conduit
Street was refused, and it has not been used as such since the end of the year.
No. 70, Leather Lane is included in the Union Buildings area, and a new bakehouse is being
built for this occupier by the London County Council at No. 58, Leather Lane. The Council refused
the application for the certificate as the bakehouse did not comply with the Council's requirements, but,
at the request of the London County Council, has allowed the occupation of the underground bakehouse
to be temporarily continued.
No. 21, Sardinia Street will also be demolished in connection with the new Kingsway, and for
this reason the Council has allowed the occupation of the same to be temporarily continued.
In all other cases certificates have either been granted or are about to be granted.
In my Annual Report for the year 1902, I included a long report on the minimum requirements
which I suggested for the great majority of the underground bakehouses, and mentioned that the Town
Clerk and I reported that we considered it undesirable for the Council to lay down any hard and fast
rules that could be applied equally to all.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
Under this head are included kitchens of hotels, restaurants and eating-houses of all sorts, tripe,
offal and other meat shops, fried fish, eel and other fish shops, and other places where food is prepared
for sale, excluding bakehouses, which are given above.
The number of these places on the register at the end of 1903 was 313. 770 inspections were
made and 70 notices were served during the year for sanitary defects where found.
OTHER SHOPS WHERE FOOD IS SOLD.
The inspection of other food shops includes 718 inspections of market streets, 54 provision
merchants and cheesemongers, 82 fruiterers and greengrocers, 38 grocers and general shops, and 52
confectioners.
The inspections of dairies, cowsheds and milkshops, and ice cream premises are dealt with under
separate headings.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
The two slaughter-houses in the Borough :—
29, Red Lion Street, and
Yorkshire Grey Yard, Eagle Street,
were inspected on 28 occasions during the year, and no breach of the regulations was found.
OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES.
The only other offensive business in the Borough is that of a tripe dresser and boiler, of Nos.
67 and 68, Leather Lane. These premises are inspected weekly, and no breach of regulations was
found. These premises are also included in the Union Buildings area, and will be demolished in
accordance with the scheme for improving the area.