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Report of the Medica Officer of Health.
To abate these nuisances 426 intimation and 36 statutory notices
were served, all of which were complied with except 19 notices served
in the end of December and which were complied with in January,
1906.
The notices served in the case of bakehouses were all for failing
to have the bakehouse cleansed at the proper time, and these were
forthwith complied with.
The only point calling for special notice respecting workshops was
the insufficiency of water closet accommodation.
In former years the provision of one water closet for every 15
females employed, and one for every 20 males, with urinal accommodation,
has been enforced, but since the issue of the order of the
Home Office respecting sanitary accommodation it has been found
impossible to insist on the above proportions as employers of labour
regard such order as final and applicable to factories and workshops in
the Metropolitan area.
In all 623 defects were found and 600 remedied, but it was only
necessary to serve 426 notices, as one notice frequently called attention
to several defects on the same premises.