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By the Factory and Workshop Act, 1883, the sanitary control
of Bakehouses has been re-transferred to the local authorities.
I have consequently made arrangements for the regular inspection
of such premises, a list of which appears among the tables in
the Appendix.
The common lodging house, No. 3, Medland Street, came under
ray notice in consequence of an outbreak of Smallpox among the
inmates. Milder measures for dislodging the disease having failed,
I was compelled to advise the closing of the house for one month.
The premises and effects received a thorough disinfection and the
disease was eradicated.
The Metropolitan Board having passed a resolution not to deal
with the Nightingale Lane area, I reported the locality to your
Board under the provisions of Torrens's Acts, but for the same
reason as operated in the case of Elizabeth Court, Brook Street,
your Board ordered proceedings to be taken with regard to the
area under the Nuisances Removal Act. Your instructions were
carried out and the houses dealt with, a few at a time. At first this
plan of dealing with the property promised well; the magistrate
made an order to close the first houses proceeded against until
rendered habitable, and they were ultimately pulled down, a fate
deserved by the rest. In the case of the remaining houses, however,
he merely made orders to remedy the various sanitary defects
within a stated time, and with that, I suppose, we must be satisfied
for the present.
Cow and Slaughter Houses.
These structures were again licensed after conforming with the
requirements of your Board. A list of licensees, with addresses,
is contained in the Appendix.