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No practical difficulties have arisen during the year in connection
with the working of the Act, and the chief nuisances remedied,
as will be seen, have been those arising from need of cleansing and
papering and whitewashing and the like.
With the exception of the Mortlake Brewery and a few
laundries there are no factories, workshops or workplaces of any
considerable size, but the total number of places inspected under
the Act during 1908 is 203.
Section 22 of the Public Health Acts (Amendment) Act, 1890,
is in force in the district and the standard of suitability and
sufficiency adopted is that of the provision of one water closet for
every 20 persons or less of each sex.
The existing underground bakehouses, four in number,
comply with the requirements of the District Council in all respects
and the sanitary condition of all the bakehouses is now very fair
indeed, although one or two are old.
There is as a rule no difficulty in dealing with the premises
occupied by bakers, and there is an increasing and wholesome
disposition on the part of these tradesmen to ask the advice of the
Sanitary officers when premises are to be altered or rebuilt.
In respect to the administration of the Factories and Workshops
Act as well as with respect to all other matters, I have made
systematic inspection as well as inspections called for by
particular circumstances.
I have cordially to acknowledge once more the great and
valued assistance I have received in these inspections, and indeed
in all other matters, from Mr. Grylls, the Inspector of Nuisances,
and his, and my, assistant, Mr. C. H. Robinson.