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other sanitary defects were served upon the owners of 2
Slaughter-houses, 2 Cowsheds, and 16 Bakehouses.
Although the condition of some of the Bakehouses cannot be
regarded as wholly satisfactory, improvement is gradually
taking place. The number in which water is drawn direct from
the main instead of through objectionably situated cisterns has
increased from 3 in 1893 to 21 in 1895. Out of a total of 36,
19 are situated underground, and are for the most part indifferently
lighted and ventilated.
It is satisfactory to know that in future it will be illegal to
continue the objectionable practice of constructing Bakehouses
underground. By the Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, Bakehouses
are classed as Workshops, and Sec. 27 (3) provides that:
"A Place underground shall not be used as a Bakehouse, unless
it is so used at the commencement of this Act, and if any place
is so used in contravention of this Act it shall be deemed to be
a Workshop not kept in conformity with the principal Act,"
and the owner will become liable to be proceeded against
accordingly. Besides the before-mentioned, I have visited all
new premises requiring a Certificate under Public Health Act,
1891, also a large number of Dwelling-houses, Factories, and
Workshops, of which complaints have been received, and in
every instance in which the Vestry's Notice to abate a Nuisance
has not been complied with. In those cases in which summonses
have been granted, I have attended the Police Courts in support
of the same.
I have made numerous Reports on the various matters which
have occupied the attention of your Public Health Committee
during the year; among the most important of which were the
Workshop and Factory Bills and Act (copy of this latter is
appended to this report).
Sanitary Registration Bill.
Nuisance arising from Fried Fish Shops.
THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACT, 1895.
To the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
I reported upon this Act in March last, when it was
introduced to the House of Commons, and while in its Bill
stage; and I propose in this report to refer mainly to those