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Medical and Sanitary officers well accustomed to the work.
The views of your Vestry were in complete accordance with
those of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, who, at
a former time, had passed a resolution to the effect—
"That it is desirable, having regard to the more effectual prevention of the
spread of zymotic disease by the agency of milk, that the special
sanitary supervision and inspection of cowsheds, dairies, and milk
shops, should be entrusted to the Local Authorities, the Medical
Officers of Health, and the Sanitary Inspectors of the respective districts."
Communications were addressed to the Lord President
of the Council, to the President of the Local Government
Board, and to the Vestries and the District Boards, with the
object of preventing the perpetuation of the error involved
in placing the supervision of cowsheds and dairies under
the Metropolitan Board. Whether they would have been
attended with the desired success it boots not now to enquire,
for, owing to pressure of business, the Bill could
not be persevered with, and I am informed, on good
authority, that, as a result of opposition to the measure,
coming from north of the Tweed, it is not intended to deal
with the subject in the current session, although the necessity
for legislation, upon the lines of the Bill of last year, has
been fully admitted by the Vice President of the Council,
and by the Local Government Board.
BAKEHOUSES.
In the last three or four of my annual reports I have had
occasion to deprecate the transfer of the duty of supervising
bakehouses, from the sanitary authority to Factory Inspectors,
effected by the repeal of "The Bakehouses Regulation
Act, 1863," by "The Factory and Workshop Act, 1878."
How this came about it is needless now to enquire: suffice
it to say that, as I pointed out in my last report, (pages
133-148), when I dealt very fully with the subject, systematic
inspection of bakehouses in the metropolis—as a whole—fell