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(13) Free access shall be provided to proper sanitary
veniences suitably situated.
(14) Proper provision shall be made for the depositing of
wearing apparel outside the underground bakehouse.
N.B.—Before making any alterations with a view to meet
these requirements, the owners or tenants of bakehouses
are advised to submit to the Medical Officer of
Health a specification of the alterations which they
purpose making.
It will be seen that these minimum requirements provide against
the entry of ground air and moisture, and make provision for
ventilation, light, and cleanliness of the premises. In my opinion
the regulations are perfectly fair and reasonable and they represent
the absolute minimum requirements in order to insure fairly
healthy surroundings and cleanliness; and I venture to express
the hope that the new Act will be enforced in the spirit of these
suggested requirements and that no certificate will be given unless
they are carried out in a thoroughly satisfactory manner.
FOOD AND DRUGS.
Under the sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 118 samples of Food and
Drugs were taken and analysed. The results are shown in Table C.
Eleven of the samples were not satisfactory and, therefore, the percentage
of non-genuine samples amounted to about 9 3 per cent., a
figure which is markedly lower than that of the preceding year, when
it was 16 per cent. The figure for the whole country was 9 per
cent. during the year 1901.
16 per cent. of the milk samples were unsatisfactory, as against
21 per cent. during the preceding year. 18.27 per cent. of the
samples of milk taken on Sundays were adulterated. There were
three convictions obtained for selling margarine contrary to the
provisions of the Act.