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Drying Grounds.—These have been found to be in some cases unpayed yards, which, owing
to water from the washed clothes and to the rain, are often little better than quagmires. Under
the Bye-laws pursuant to Section 10 (la) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, these
yards should be " paved with a hard, durable and impervious pavement." The matter is
receiving the attention of the Inspectors.
Wet Floors.—Under Section 8 of the Factory Act, drainage must be provided to remove
water from floors which are wet enough to allow water to flow. In some of the smaller
laundries the floors have been found very wet, and, curiously enough, there is an objection to
standing on a wooden grating or board. Occupiers of such laundries are being required to
keep the wash-house floors in good condition, properly sloped to a gullev to carrv off the wet.
Unfortunately, a good floor is in some laundries quickly broken up bv breaking coal or chopping
wood for the copper fire.
Bakehouses.
Attention has been concentrated during the greater part of the nine months between
April and the end of the vear on the underground bakehouses, of which 05 were found to be
in use. A Special Report dealing with the subject of certification was presented to the Public
Health Committee on December 11th and submitted to the Council with a "Schedule of
Requirements" on December l6th.*
Plans and sections, with detailed reports as to structural conditions, Sic., were prepared
for all the underground bakehouses. The diagram facing this indicates the different levels of
the floors of the 65 bakehouses.† Some particulars of the sebakehouses are given in the tabular
statement on p. 60. The number of men working therein was returned at 305, 167 by day
and 138 at night.
There are also 13 "level" bakehouses in the Borough. Time did not allow of all of them
being properlv inspected last year. More attention will be given to them during the current
year.
It seems not unlikely that after the structural alterations required for certificates have been
carried out, the underground bakehouses will on the whole be better than the "level."
Lists of underground bakehouses in use and out of use and of level bakehouses will be found
in the Appendix (p. 74).
FOOD SUPERVISION.
This subject requires to be dealt with under the following heads:—
(i.) Meat Supply—Slaughter-houses, Butchers' Shops;
(ii.) Milk Supply—Dairies, Milkshops and Cowsheds;
(iii.) Restaurants, and Eating-houses, and Fried Fish vendors;
(iv.) Ice Cream makers and vendors;
(v.) Miscellaneous
Inspr. Grivell.
(vi.) Analysis under Sale of Food and Drugs Acts Inspr. Parker.
(i.)—Meat Supply: Slaughterhouses.—There are nine slaughterhouses in the Borough,
situated as below:—
Bishop's Mews, No. 1. Edgware Road, No. 275 (in rear of),
Southwick Mews, No. 15, Portsdown Mews (in rear of No. 249, Maida Vale).
Chippenham Mews, No. 18, Harrow Road, No. 125 (in rear of),
Hero Place, Upper Brooks Mews, No. 6.
Jonson Mews, No. 1.
These premises were inspected by the Medical Officer of Health before the annual
licensing, and during the nine months April to December of last year the Inspector made 743
* The "Schedule" was after reference hack to and amendment by the Committee adopted by the Council on
3rd February of this year.
† Since the above was written two other underground bakehouses have been, on the advice of the Solicitor,
added to the list of premises in use. This explains the discrepancy between this paragraph and the list on p. 74.