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sale of food and drugs acts.
The following is a tabular statement of certain
matters which can be numerically expressed. Much of the
work done does not admit of tabulation —
1895.
Visits to Outworkers 251
Ascertaining by Measurement the cubic
space of Workrooms 172
Investigating in detail the ventilation of
Workrooms 40
Inspection of new places of Business, and
reporting on the same 26
Inspection of the 126 Bakehouses in the
Parish 254
Attending to complaints of Smoke, the
complaints in number being 23
THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACTS.
But little work has been done under these Acts during
the year, the fact being, that owing to the extensive
alterations and the demolition of houses necessitated by
the construction of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway,
and owing to a number of leases on the large estates
falling in, no small portion of the parish is under reconstruction.
However dilapidated a house may be, if the
lease under which it is held comes to an end within
two years, it is certainly wiser for a local authority to
await events than to use the cumbrous and expensive
machinery of an Act which, if opposed, can certainly
not be brought to bear effectively within that space of
time.
THE LABORATORY.
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts.
During the year an important change took place.
Mr. Colwell, who had been for several years in the Court
House Laboratory, resigned his office owing to his being
successful in obtaining more than one public appointment
as analyst; and Mr. W. A. Rogers, a gentleman of special