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should be materially increased." They recommended the appointment
of two Assistant Medical Officers of Health and other Officers,
so that if their suggestions had been fully carried out "the staff of
the Public Health Department would, in addition to the Medical
Officer of Health, consist of two Assistant Medical Officers of
Health, six Inspectors, a Statistical Clerk, five other Clerks, and a
boy Clerk."
The report concluded with the recommendations necessary
to give effect to the views of the Committee, which were
adopted, save that the Council decided to appoint only one
Assistant Medical Officer of Health.
THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1891.
In my last Annual Report (page 164) I drew attention to the
six bills brought before Parliament with the design of amending
and extending (but none of them proposing to consolidate) the
existing law on the subject of Factories and Workshops; two
in the House of Lords and four in the Commons. I gave a brief
account of the sanitary provisions contained in the Government
measure entitled A Bill to amend the Law relating to Factories
and Workshops, and took occasion to recommend that an attempt
should be made to effect a needed improvement in the law with
respect to Bakehouses; my principal recommendation being
that steps should be taken to secure the introduction of a clause
to enable the Sanitary Authority, or the County Council, to
make bye-laws for the regulation of bakehouses. The history
of previous efforts in this direction which I had given in my
third monthly report (April 1st), wherein I showed the inadequacy
of existing law to secure a proper sanitary condition of
the premises used for the manufacture of bread, induced your
Vestry to refer the said report to the Law and Parliamentary
Committee, with power to take action in order to bring
about the desired reform. Letters were accordingly addressed
to the Home Secretary and the President of the Local Goverment
Board, urging the desirability of steps being taken, in