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DAIRIES AND MILKSHOPS.
The supervision of Dairies and Milkshops is not in the hands of your Sanitary
Authority, as in other parts of the country, but in the hands of the Metropolitan
Board of" Works.
BAKEHOUSES.
There are 215 Bakehouses in the Parish. They have been kept in compliance
with the Regulations.
MARINE STORES.
The Marine Stores have been inspected from time to time, in order to prevent
I any nuisance liable to arise therefrom.
LEGISLATION.
Only three Bills of Sanitary import passed the legislature during 1887.
The Water Companies' Regulation of Powers Bill, which prevents water companies
from cutting off the water supplied to tenants, for which the landlord is
I liable. A very useful measure as far as it goes; but as a house is held to be
unfit for human habitation when without water supply, sanitarily nothing short
I of prohibiting occupied houses from being deprived of water will be satisfactory.
The Butter Substitutes Bill enacts that all imitations of Butter shall be sold
as "Margarine," and be so marked.
An Act to Consolidate the Law relating to Coroners.—This Act is only the consolidation
which usually precedes amendments. Any amendment should provide
for the proper certification of the cause of death (the "by what") by written
medical certificate, the coroner enquiring into the manner of death (the "by
whom,") the jury basing their finding upon the combined evidence, and attaching
thereto the medical certificate, the present method of coroner and jury certifying
the medical cause of death being extremely unsatisfactory in result.
TABLES.
Appended to the Report follow a number of Tables of general and special
interest.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN F. J. SYKES,
Medical Officer of Health.