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REGISTERED HOUSES.
It is satisfactory to note that the tenement houses registered
under the sanitary regulations of the Vestry have not
occasioned any special trouble during the year. One house
(7, Marlborough Row) has been registered during the year.
ST. JAMES'S DWELLINGS.
This property has been fairly well let during the whole
year.
A copy of the accounts of the Trust Fund will be found on
pages 120 and 121.
INSPECTION OF BAKEHOUSES.
The Factory and Workshops Act. 1883, having tranferred
to the Local Sanitary Authorities the duty of inspecting
retail bakehouses, the following abstract of the requirements
of the law with regard to the cleanliness, ventilation, overcrowding,
and sanitary condition of retail bakehouses, is given
for the information of parishioners :—
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