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The Board again urgently request all householders to
see that the men are not refused the dust on calling, and
that any vegetable, animal, or other matter, which may be
burnt or otherwise destroyed, is not placed in the ashpits.
They would also call attention to the necessity of having
the ashbins periodically cleansed and limewashed, or limewhited.
It frequently happens that this most needful work
is absolutely overlooked and neglected, even when houses are
otherwise completely renovated.
Any complaints of the non-clearance of ashpits may be
made by letter to the Board, at their Offices, when attention
will be given to the same; but it is apparent that the Board
cannot collect the dust more frequently than at present
without incurring a much heavier outlay.
BAKEHOUSES.
The inspection and control of Bakehouses has again been
placed in the hands of the Local Authorities. The Board
feeling the necessity for such inspection and control, pressed
upon the higher authorities the importance of allowing it to
revert to the Local Governing Bodies, and this result the
Board are glad to say, has been attained. By the 17th sec.
of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1883, it is provided:
"As respects every retail bakehouse, the provisions of the
Act, and of sects. 3, 34, 35, and 35 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1878, which relate to cleanliness, ventilation,
overcrowding, and other sanitary conditions,
should be enforced by the local authority of the district
in which the bakehouse is situate, and not by an Inspector
under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878,
and that for the purpose of such section it was enacted
that the Medical Officer of Health should have and
exercise all such powers of entry, inspection, taking
legal proceedings and otherwise, as an Inspector under
the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878."