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The bakehouses, to the number of 75, have been
twice, and many of them three or four times, visited by
the Inspector, and some of them by myself, in order to
see that the requirements of the Bakehouses' Regulation
Act are carried out. It is very important that bakehouses
should be kept continually in the most cleanly condition;
and it is to be wished that the provisions of the Act in
question were more stringent.
The slaughter-houses, 20 in number, and the cow-sheds,
9 in number, have been regularly inspected, as is also the
case with the mewses, and with the shops of marine-storedealers.
A number of cases, in which underground rooms were
occupied as separate dwellings, although their areas did
not comply with the conditions of the Act of Parliament
relating thereto, having been brought under my notice by
the District Surveyor, I visited them all, in company with
the Inspector, and after a report on them to the Committee
of Works, notices were issued to the owners to discontinue
letting them in that way. In several cases the areas were
altered so as to fulfil the requisite conditions, and in others,
where it appears requisite, further action will be taken.
Gas.
In accordance with a resolution of the Vestry, I made
a special examination of the effect produced by the regulators
attached to the gas burners of the lamps throughout
the Parish by the two Companies, and prepared a report,
which was ordered to be printed and circulated. The result,
briefly, was that the regulators were found to be constructed
so as to supply more than the stipulated number of cubic
feet per hour, and that they did so, except in two instances,