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scheme, would necessarily prove abortive. It is probably due
to the absence of a compulsory power of purchase beingvested
in local Authorities that the Labouring Classes
Lodging Houses Acts, the first of which was passed as far
back as the year 1851, have not been adopted in a single
instance.
A proposal to apply one-half the purchase money received
for the St. James's Burial Ground, Hampstead Road, to providing
dwellings for the poorer working classcs is mentioned
on page 122.
INSPECTION OF BAKEHOUSES.
The Factory and Workshop Act, 1883, having transferred
to the Local Sanitary Authorities the duty of inspecting
retail bakehouses, the Vestry printed and circulated, for the
information of such of the parishioners as might be concerned,
an abstract of the requirements of the law with regard to the
cleanliness, ventilation, overcrowding, and sanitary condition
of retail bakehouses, as follows:—
1. A bakehouse, to be in conformity with the Acts relating
to retail bakehouses, is subject to the following requirements
:—
(a) It must be kept in a cleanly state, and free from effluvia,
arising from any drain, privy, or other nuisance.
(b) It must not be so overcrowded while work is carried on
therein as to be injurious to the health of the persons
employed, and shall be ventilated in such a manner as
to render harmless, so far as practicable, all the gases,
vapours, dust, or other impurities generated in the
course of the manufacturing process that may be
injurious to health.
(c) The ceilings or tops of the bakehouse and all passages and
staircases must either be painted with oil, or varnished,
or limewashed, or partly painted or varnished, and partly