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"These 92 premises contained 164 work-rooms, 22 of which
were overcrowded, and 30 in a dirty and unwholesome
condition. There were 964 persons found employed in
these workrooms, or 50 in excess of the accommodation,
taking 250 cubic feet as the minimum amount of cubic
space allowed for each person in such places."
Notices have been served where necessary, to prevent
overcrowding, and to enforce the provisions as to cleanliness,
ventilation, drainage, &c.
There are 47 bakehouses on the register, of which 46 are
in use; these have been inspected twice each during the
year, and the regulations as to cleansing observed.
The Factory and Workshop 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."
Cards showing the number of persons who may be employed
in each factory or workshop, and in each room, have
been distributed and 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.
There is now only one licensed slaughterhouse in the
Parish, and this has been regularly inspected and found to
be satisfactorily conducted.
The street stalls and butchers' shops have been frequently
visited, but it has not been necessary to seize any article of
food as unfit for human consumption.