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Examinations must be made beginning in the year 1st
July, 1938, and in every fifth succeeding year.
I personally carried out in the year commencing 1st
July, 1938, an inspection of all the 38 basement bakehouses
then in operation, and found 21unfit to retain the certificate
of suitability. Owing to the war no bakehouses were
closed.
The first quinquennial examination occurred in the year
1943/44 when it was found that only 23 basement bakehouses
remained in operation, and I reported 12 of these unfit.
The Council wrote to the owners informing them that their
premises were unsuitable but, because of the exceptional
conditions prevailing, would not be closed.
The second quinquennial examination, in 1948/49, found
11 of the twelve unfit bakehouses still unsuitable, and the
Council gave the owners 3 years' notice to close them.
Only one bakehouse owner appealed within the statutory
period of 21 days and after a lengthy adjournment the appeal
was finally heard and dismissed.
Eventually all the 11 unfit bakehouses were duly closed.

At the quinquennial examination of 1953/54 I reported 7 of
the eight basement bakehouses as unsuitable.
The Council, after considering the matter fully, including
the report of a sub-ccmmittee of the Public Health
Committee which also inspected the bakehouses, decided to
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