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There are 47 bake-houses on the register; these have been
inspected thoroughly during the year, and the sanitary
condition of some of them has been improved, notices
having been issued, and the necessary improvements carried
out by the owners.
During the year 9 bake-houses on the register at the
beginning of 1895 have been struck off because they were
not in use on the 1st of January, 1896, and one has been
demolished.
The Factory and Workshops Act of 1895 contains
important sanitary provisions, especially with regard to
the amount of space to be allowed for each person
employed; the Act also applies to Laundries and to
Bakehouses, and prohibits the use of any "place underground
"as a Bakehouse," unless it is so used at the
commencement of this Act."
Your Committee has had cards prepared to show the
number of persons who may be employed in each factory
or workshop, and in each room, and these are being filled
up and distributed to be hung up in conspicuous places in
the factories and workshops, and in each room where work
is carried on.
There are now no cowsheds in the Parish.
The licensed slaughterhouses, of which there are now
only two in the Parish, have been regularly inspected and
found to be satisfactorily conducted.
The same may be said of the street stalls and butchers
shops, to which frequent visits are paid, but it has not been
necessary to seize any article of food as unfit for human
consumption.
The Mewses in the Parish are frequently inspected, and
are generally satisfactory, except during the height of the