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the Works, Sauitary, and General Purposes Committee, and
acting on their recommendation your Vestry decided to address
a communication to other Vestries, &c., as follows:—
January 18th, 1883.
To the Clerk of the Vestry.
" Sir,
"The Vestry have recently received, in common with other Vestries
and District Boards of Works, communications from the Vestries of
Newington and Chelsea, on the subject of 'Regulation of Bakehouses,'
to which their attention had been previously drawn in August last by
the St. Pancras Vestry.
"This subject had on more than one occasion, in 1882, been under
the consideration of the Works, Sanitary, and General Purposes Committee,
whose final report thereon was received and adopted by the
Vestry on the 8th November last.
"Although the Vestry are of opinion that there is little probability
of legislation with respect to Bakehouses in the ensuing Session of
Parliament, the subject is so important that they have thought it desirable
to place their views thereon before the several Vestries and
District Boards of Works, and I am accordingly directed to forward for
the information of your Vestry the report of the Committee above
referred to, which, I may add, is in substantial agreement with the views
of the Vestry's Medical Officer of Health, as set out in his Annual
Report for 1881."
I am, &c.,
The Report of the Committee was as follows:—
"With reference to the letter from the Vestry of St. Pancras
respecting the regulation of bakehouses, and enquiring how far
the present position of legislation concerning bakehouses is considered
satisfactory by this Vestry ?—
"Recommending—
"That the Vestry of St. Pancras be informed—
(1.) 'That the Sanitary Inspectors of Kensington have continued to inspect
bakehouses in the Parish under the provisions of the Nuisances Removal
and Sanitary Acts, notwithstanding the repeal by the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1878, of the Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863.
(2.) 'That this Vestry, nevertheless, do not consider the present position of
legislation in respect of bakehouses satisfactory, and in their opinion