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PUBLIC MORTUARY.
173 bodies were removed to the Mortuary during the
year and were admitted as follows:-
At the request of the Coroner 145
Brought in by the Police 19
At the request of the Medical Officer of
Health 9
173
Eight of the last being cases of infectious disease.
Inquests were held on 164, and post-mortem examinations
were made in 85 of the above cases.
BAKEHOUSES.
There are 77 bakehouses in Fulham, which have been
regularly inspected during the year and have generally been
found in a fairly satisfactory condition. Intimations were
served in respect of eight bakehouses, and in one
instance the owner was prosecuted on account of the
dirty condition of the bakehouse, but as the nuisance
had been remedied before the hearing of the summons, only
a nominal penalty was inflicted.
Underground Bakehouses.
Allusion was made in last year's report to the fact that
in new districts underground bakehouses are still being
erected, and that legislation was needed to provide that no
newly erected bakehouse should be permitted to be underground.
The Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, which came into
operation at the beginning of this year, provides for this, as
Section 27 (3) enacts that "a place underground shall not be
used as a bakehouse unless it is so used at the commencement