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of the inspections, re-inspections, and calls made by the District
Inspectors during the year; and, in the second part, the amendments
which have been effected.
In addition to these improvements, the three District Inspectors
reported during the year that dust was required to be removed
from 850 houses, this number not being included in the removals
ordered as the result of the special work of the Inspector of Dust,
which will be found stated in the note at the bottom of the table.
The visits to bakehouses were not so numerous as in former
years, "The Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863," having been
repealed by the consolidated "Factory and Workshops Act, 1878,"
which came into operation on the 1st of January, 1879, and under
which the bakehouses will now be inspected by Her Majesty's
Inspectors of Factories, who by the 4th section, are directed to
give notice of any nuisance remediable under "The Nuisances
Removal Acts" to the Sanitary Authority.
Whether this new legislation will tend to the improvement of
the condition of the bakehouses, or whether they will gradually
fall into the state of neglect they were in prior to the passing of
the Act of 1863, time alone will show; but there can be no doubt
as to the beneficial results of the supervision constantly exercised
since the end of 1866-7 by the Vestry as the Local Authority, the
reality of which is attested by the 8,279 visits made by your
Inspectors to the bakehouses of the parish, as well as by the
summonses issued in the worst cases from time to time, when it
has been necessary, as an example, to enforce the regulations
of the Act, although it must be acknowledged that the bakers of
Islington, as a rule, have not been unwilling to meet the requirements
of the Sanitary Committee under the Act now repealed.
By the authority of the Sanitary Committee, carbolic acid was
again used during the summer as in former years, in watering
some of the streets. McDongall's powder was also used in the
hottest and driest part of the season in the courts, and in connection
with the Sunday morning cleansing of the channels of the Essex,
Caledonian, and Holloway Roads, where these thoroughfares are
used as market-places until late on Saturday nights.