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Bakehouses.
The bakehouses in the district were kept under constant inspection
during the year. They were found, with a few exceptions,
to be well managed. No factory inspectors having, as yet, been
appointed to visit bakehouses under the Factory Act, 1878, I
have deemed it advisable that the inspectors of your Board
should still carry on the work, as if the Bakehouse Regulation
Act was not repealed. Where sanitary defects were found to
exist, notices were served upon the occupiers under the provisions
of the Nuisance Removal Act, 1855.
The Case of Frank Isworth.
The case of Frank Isworth though, in one sense, unfortunate,
nevertheless reflected great credit upon your Sanitary Department
for the careful perseverance in the execution of a duty
under very trying and difficult circumstances. His death created
a great deal of public sympathy. Many of the public papers
commented upon the case, and suggested that there was something
wrong somewhere, but they took care to exonerate every
one from blame who was connected with the affair. The papers
received an untrue and sensational report of what took place at
the inquest. The remarks that were made by the Coroner were,
"that there was no blame to any one in the case, and that from
the beginning to the end the wisest possible course had been
adopted." As a matter of fact, there was nothing wrong anywhere,
except in the unfortunate individual himself. After 36
applications to the Police Court, and over 100 visits to the house,
63, Harwood Road, in the parish of Fulham, the dwelling was at
length closed under a magistrate's order. The last occupier,
Frank Isworth, was removed to Coldbath Fields Prison in default
of the payment of fines incurred for refusing to quit the house