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Bakehouses.
In addition to the workshops above enumerated, there were
during the year 129 bakehouses in the City. These have been
inspected during the year, cleansed at the proper periods, and
in a number of instances improvements have been carried out in
them.
At the end of the year the number on the register had been
reduced to 120 by two causes:—
(1) Five have been closed in consequence of street
ments.
(2) The Factory and Workshop Act lays down that on the date
of its passing, 17th August, no underground bakehouse not
then in use could afterwards be so used. At that date there
were four such.
The probability is that with the increase in the stringency of
the requirements, underground bakehouses will gradually disappear,
the tendency being to build bakehouses which will serve several
shops, and to provide mechanical power in place of hand labour.
Dairies, Slaughter-Houses, &c.
In November, 1900, the following powers, hitherto exercised by
the London County Coimcil, were transferred to the Metropolitan
Borough Councils:—
(1) Power under Section 28 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, of registering dairymen.
(2) Power of enforcing the bye-laws and regulations for the time
being in force with respect to dairies and milk, and with
respect to slaughter-houses, knackers' yards, and offensive
businesses.
The power to make bye-laws is still retained by the County
Council, but the right of entry, which the County Council had, has
been taken awav from that body-.
Your Medical Officers of Health obtained from the County
Council a list of the above-mentioned businesses registered in the
City of Westminster, which were thus distributed:—