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have power to act, has been repealed, and a clause in
the Factory and Workshops' Act (1878) places the
business under the supervision of the Inspectors
appointed under the Factory Acts.
This Act came into operation on the first day of
January, 1879. In the fourth section of the new Act
is the following:—
Where it appears to an Inspector under this Act that any act, neglect, or
default in relation to any drain, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ash-pit,
water supply, nuisance, or other matter in a factory or workshop, is punishable
or remediable under the law relating to public health, but not under
this Act, that Inspector shall give notice in writing of such act, neglect, or
default, to the sanitary authority in whose district the factory is situate;
and it shall be the duty of the sanitary authority to make such inquiry
into the subject of the notice, and take such action thereon as to that
authority may seem proper, for the purpose of enforcing the law."
It will thus be seen that it is the duty of the
Factory Inspector to draw the attention of the Sanitary
Officials to any defects such as would ordinarily come
within our cognizance in making inspections. Under
the new Act, power is given to prevent the use of
cellars for bakehouses, such as the greater portion in
this parish now are.
SANITARY LEGISLATION DURING THE
YEAR.
In addition to the Contagious Diseases (Animals)
Act affecting the cow houses, and the Factory Amendment
Act affecting bake houses, the Metropolitan Board
of Works have succeeded in obtaining an Act of
Parliament making certain amendments in the Building