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as he had refused to carry out the alterations required by the
Council, and after notice from the Council that the certificate
would be refused, he had occupied the premises as an underground
bakehouse and within 21 days from the date of the notice which
had been given by the Council, he had not made application to
the Court as provided by subsection 7 of Section 101, but the
necessary alterations are now being carried out, so there will be
in the Borough 36 underground bakehouses.
The alterations executed at the underground bakehouses were,
speaking generally, abolition of all gullies, the floors covered with
an impermeable material (in some instances the floors were lowered),
dampness of walls remedied, water drawn from the main, increase
of light, ventilation, and protection against dust.
Where sufficient light could not be obtained from the back or
the front, borrowed light was procured by means of prismatic pavement
lights inserted in the floor above.
Areas were also either covered by a prismatic pavement light,
or a skylight, and the walls of the areas lined with white tiles.
The windows of the skylights at the rear, and the window sashes
under the stallboards were made to hang in such a manner as to
minimise the entrance of dust.
Extraction shafts in some instances were also inserted, the
(roughs were made movable, and the underground bakehouses were
in other ways dealt with, so as to render them suitable before
certificates were granted.
The Islington Borough Council addressed the Home Secretary
urging that legislation should be introduced to enaole Bye-laws to
be made under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, in relation
to bakehouses, the provisions of the Act being not in themselves
sufficiently explicit, and. requiring to be supplemented by Bye-laws