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"17. (Enforcement of law as to retail bakehouses by
Local Authorities.)—As respects every retail bakehouse,
the provisions of this part of this Act, and of Sections 3,
33, 34, and 35 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878
(which relate to cleanliness, ventilation, overcrowding, and
other sanitary conditions), shall be enforced by the Local
Authority of the district, in which the retail bakehouse is
situate, and not by an Inspector under the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1878, and for the purpose of this section
the Medical Officer of Health of the Local Authority shall
have and exercise all such powers of entry, inspection,
taking legal proceedings and otherwise, as an Inspector
under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878."
Rag and Bone Shops.—'No complaints have been made
about these shops, and they are reported to have been kept
in fairly good order, considering the nature of the business
carried on in them.
Provisions unfit for Human Food.—The meat sold
in the market streets appears to have been of a better
quality than that of the previous year, and no complaints
have been received from the police and others as to any
disease or objectionable food having been exposed for sale.
The Inspectors, as usual, visited these streets on Saturday
nights, and gave extra attention to them during the
hot weather.
Undoubtedly, the extra scavenging and watering now
done on Saturday nights and Sunday mornings is most
beneficial to Little Earl Street and its neighbourhood, and
a further improvement would be made by paving Little
Earl Street with asphalte,* as the roadway could be more
*Your Surveyor, in October, 1882, was clearly of the same opinion,
for in a report to your Board, on carriage-way pavings, he stated most
emphatically that, whatever the expense might be, asphalte pavement
should be laid in these streets.