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BAKEHOUSES.
The special duties formerly devolving on your Vestry's officers
under the provisions of the Bakehouse Act were transferred in the
year 1879, to Government Inspectors appointed under the provisions
of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1878. The Sanitary
Inspectors, nevertheless, have continued to exercise a considerable
amount of supervision over the bakehouses as a part of their
routine work, and I have no doubt that a continuation of thenperiodical
visitations is desirable in the interests of the public.
There are about 133 bakehouses in the parish, 81 north and 52
south of Uxbridge Road.
PUBLIC URINALS.
The only step to increase "necessary accommodation" taken
during the year was by the provision of a well-designed building
in the Churchyard, at the rear of the Vestry Hall, absolutely
necessary for the prevention of filthy nuisances adjoining the flank
of the Town Hall on one of the chief approaches to the Parish
Church. Your Vestry's powers to provide such accommodation
are ample, but difficulty has been experienced in giving effect to
the provisions of the 88th section of the Metropolis Management
Act, which enables the Nuisance Authority to "provide and
maintain urinals, water closets, and like conveniences (for both
sexes) in situations where they deem such accommodation to be
required, &c."
Your Vestry's Works, Sanitary, and General Purposes Committee,
to which the subject was referred, have indicated several
situations where it is admitted such accommodation is required;
but the opposition raised by inhabitants in the neighbourhood of
the selected sites has always proved insuperable. A proposition
was made by a private individual firstly, and afterwards by a
Company, to provide chalets for the convenience of the public as
a commercial speculation, but the Law and Parliamentary Committee
having reported that your Vestry have no authority for
placing obstructions in the public streets the matter fell through.
In some other parishes the scheme has been entertained favourably,
and chalets are about to be erected; we can, therefore, but await
with patience and hope the issue of an interesting experiment.