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Bakehouses.
38. One bakehouse has been added to the register and 10
underground bakehouses have been removed, leaving 62 on the
register at the close of the year, of which 24 are underground,
and have been certified as suitable in all respects under the
Factory and Workshop Act. Very great improvements have
been secured in these underground bakehouses, so that for the
most part they are now superior in structure and cleanliness to
the level bakehouses, and little behind as regards light.
39. The minimum requirements demanded by the Council
before granting a certificate were set out in my last year's
report, so that I need not now repeat them; I need only say
that, if not in themselves very exacting, they were strictly
adhered to. The increased height (7 ft. 6 in.) secured in many
bakehouses, the cementing of walls, the tiling of floors, and the
provision of larger window space or of prismatic lights have
produced a remarkable transformation, and one which has been
in most cases no less pleasing to the bakers than to the sanitary
authority.
Unless perhaps in one case, I am not aware that any distinct
hardship has been involved by the closing of bakehouses which
did not satisfy the Council's requirements.
40. As regards the above ground bakehouses I reported
after my last half yearly inspection that in ten there were dirty
conditions or other nuisances, and the remainder were satisfactory.
11 notices were served. In two cases I recommended
prosecution on the ground that these bakehouses had been
repeatedly found dirty, and that though a notice had the effect
of causing the bakehouse to be cleansed the nuisance quickly
recurred and the place was not kept clean. The Health