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bake-houses, and provides for certain sanitary conditions these in.
Then the regulations of dairies, removal of refuse, prevention of
infectious disease, disinfection and many more details in connection
with sanitation.
Sanitary Work.
During the year, 165 sanitary notices were served upon the
owners or occupiers of property, also numerous verbal recommendations
to remedy sanitary defects.
At your fortnightly Vestry meeting of 1st October, 1801, I made
a report to you respecting the insanitary condition of the house
24, Bedfordbury. You requested your Clerk to write to the agent
desiring him to put the house into a proper and wholesome condition,
or close it. To this request the agent replied he would be quite
willing to shut up the premises, providing he could come to some
arrangement with the leaseholder, who had another year of his
lease to run. A good deal of correspondence and interviews passed
with the agent and leaseholder without any definite result. At last
it became necessary to apply for a summons against the agent,
which was heard at Bow St. Police Court on 2nd February, 1892.
The Magistrate granted a closing order, and inflicted the nominal
penalty of ten shillings and costs,
Bake-houses.
The bake-houses have been regularly inspected, and were found
in a satisfactory condition.
Houses Let Out in Lodgings.
Your Instector, whom you appointed permanent inspector of
these houses, has rgularly inspected them, and reported to me all
sanitary defects that came under his notice.