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fully into this system and try one of the present experimental
beds with a revolving sprinkler to see whether the
system shown to be so successful with the small sprinkler
filter of the Native Guano Company, would also be successful
when carried out on a large scale.
BYE-LAWS FOR HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
These Bye-laws are still under your consideration, and
I would urge upon you the necessity of putting them into
force. It is only intended to use them in bad cases, and I
fail to see in what way hardship would fall upon anyone.
It is absolutely necessary, if the general standard of health
is to be improved, that dirt and overcrowding must be
dealt with systematically. A standard of space per person
is given in these Bye-laws; it is all too little, but I trust
you will establish it.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
New workshops are constantly being opened and old
ones closed, but as far as can be ascertained every workshop
in the Borough has now been inspected. Out workers
have only been notified to me to the number of seven and
these have been visited. There is little fault to be found
with the workshop accommodation. In a few cases whitewashing
was required or small sanitary defects required
attention.
In respect to workplaces it was found in one case that
drain openings existed in a shed where food was being
prepared. This is being remedied, and in the case previously
reported the alteration has been carried out. With
the reports of ptomaine poisoning at Derby and elsewhere,
it is satisfactory to know that such a condition can be
dealt with.
Technically speaking, there are two underground bakehouses
in the Borough, the floor in each case being more