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time and reported on, and in the event of any outbreak
of infectious disease, immediate precautions will be
taken to prevent its spread.
The Sale of Food and Drugs Acts
Has been strenuously enforced during the past year,
and proceedings have been taken against the vendors
of inferior and adulterated food, and the quality of
the milk has decidedly improved.
Slaughterhouses, Bakehouses, Cowsheds, and Dairies.
These have been periodically inspected by the
Sanitary Inspector, and occasionally by myself, and
have been found generally satisfactory.
I would recommend that the following regulations
should be printed and hung up in every bakehouse and
slaughterhouse in the parish, to obviate any assumed
ignorance on the part of the owners or occupiers:
BAKEHOUSE REGULATIONS.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1883.
Section 15.
It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied as a
bakehouse or to occupy as a bakehouse, any room or place
which was not so let or occupied before first day of June, 1883,
unless the following regulations are complied with :
(1) No watercloset, earthcloset, privy, or ashpit shall be
within or communicate directly with the bakehouse ;
(2) Any cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse shall
be separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water to
a watercloset;
(3) No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage
matter shall have an opening within the bakehouse.
Any person who lets or suffers to be occupied, or who occupies
any room or place as a bakehouse in contravention of this
section, shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not
exceeding forty shillings, and to a further fine not exceeding