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St George (Southwark) 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]
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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1895.
TABLE XIII.
| Premises. | Date of Ofiicial Representation. | Result. |
|---|---|---|
| 19, 21, 23 and 25, Orient Street | January 15th. | Closed and since demolished. Costs. |
| 3, Rodney Street | January 15th. | Closed and since demolished. |
| 3 and 4, Willmott's Buildings | January 15th. | Closed with costs. |
| 17 and 18, Falka Place | January 15th. | Closed with costs. |
| 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, Barron's Place | January 15th. | Summonses adjourned, and dwellings since rendered fit for human habitation. |
| 24, Barron's Place | February 28th | Closed with costs. |
| 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, Red Cow Alley | February 26th | Closed with costs. |
| 21, 22, 25 and 26, King's Bench Walk | February 26th | Closed. |
| 5 and 6, Providence Place | March 26th. | Closed with costs. |
| 7,Bermondsey New Road | May 7th. | Closed and since demolished. |
| Blocks I. and II. Artizan's Dwellings, Gun Street | May 7th. | Works executed. |
| 1 to 15 (inclusive) Queen's Court | June 18th. | Nos. 3, 4, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, closed by owner. Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10, works in progress. |
| 5, Willmott's Buildings | October 22nd. | Closed with costs. |
| 10, 13, 15, 16, 21, 23, Willmott's Buildings | Dec. 17th. | Cases pending. |
Bakehouses under the New Act.
The general provisions of the Act enforces 400 cubic feet of air space for each
workman engaged in a retail bakehouse. They also appear to allow the Local
Authorities to proceed against the owner, as well as the occupier, for certain offences
committed in any such bakehouse.
The special requirements of the Act, as regards retail bakehouses, are as follows :—
"Sect. 27.—(1) Sections 34 and 35 of the principal Act shall apply to every
bakehouse, and so much of those Sections as limits the operation thereof to cities,
towns, and places, having a population of more than five thousand persons shall be
repealed."
(2) In Section 15 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1883, the words "which
was not so let or occupied before the first day of June, 1883," shall be repealed.
*(3) A place under ground shall not be used as a bakehouse, unless it is so used
at the commencement of this Act, and if any place is so used in contravention of this
Act, it shall be deemed to be a workshop not kept in conformity with the principal
Act."
The gist of Sections 34 and 35 of the 1878 Act, and Sections 15 and 16 of the
1883 Act, referred to in the above quotation, may be found under " Regulations for
Bakehouses " in the Appendix.
It will be seen, after 30 years of tentative legislation, Government has recognised
the fact that the underground bakehouses should cease to exist. The prohibition of
any underground work-place used afresh as a bakery after the 1st January, 1896,
may be reasonably regarded as a first step towards their entire removal. Those who
are interested in the subject of bakehouse construction and law will find the matter
entered into very fully in the Appendix.
The Notification of Infectious and other Diseases.
Certain infectious diseases have been made notifiable in London since the passing
of the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889. They comprise:—small-pox,
cholera, diphtheria, membraneous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina
or scarlet fever, and the fevers known by any of the following names:—typhus, typhoid,
enteric, relapsing, continued, or puerperal.
* For explanation of this sub-section see correspondence, re Cellar Bakeries. Page 43.