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and it appears to be the fact, that in some districts SanitaryInspectors
have been refused admission on this very ground.
Admitting that the special duties which formerly devolved on
the Vestry, as "Local Authority" under the Bakehouse Regulation
Act—in respect of the age of the employes, and the hours
of employment of young persons, as well as in respect of the
structural arrangements of the premises—were transferred to the
Factory Inspectors under the Factory and Workshop Act, I hold
that the Vestries, as Sanitary Authorities, still have a duty in
relation to bakehouses, and that the powers conferred on them
by the Sanitary Act, 1866 (Section 19, as amended by the
Factory Act) and by the Nuisances Removal Acts, suffice for
the discharge of that duty, viz., the prevention and the removal
of nuisances, and that they have practically a power of entry,
although of course the specific power of entry given by the
Bakehouse Regulation Act ceased on the repeal of that Act.
The Factory Act itself assumes a necessity for the interference
of the Sanitary Authority, for, as already stated, it requires
the Factory Inspector, should he observe any act or neglect in
relation to sanitary matters involving nuisance "punishable or
remediable under the law relating to public health, but not under
the Factory Act," to give notice thereof to the Sanitary Authority,
which will then make enquiry and take such action as may seem
proper for the purpose of enforcing the law. The Inspector
may for the purposes of this section (4), take with him into the
bakehouse a Medical Officer of Health or Inspector of Nuisances.
Under the Nuisances Removal Act, 1855, the word "nuisance"
includes "any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or
injurious to health," a definition wide enough to include a dirty
or unventilated bakehouse; whilst in the Sanitary Act, 1866 (Sec.
19), it is specifically enacted that the word" nuisances
under the Nuisances Removal Acts, shall include . . . .
any factory, workshop, or workplace not kept in a
cleanly state, or not ventilated in such a manner as to
render harmless, as far as practicable, any gases, vapour,
dust, or other impurities generated in the course of the