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Bakehouses.—The Bakehouses on the Register at the end of
the year were 91 in the Northern Division, and 85 in the Southern
Division. Plans were submitted and passed during the year for the
erection or re-building of six bakehouses. In 13 cases limewashing
was ordered, and in one case a bakehouse was closed by the Stipendiary
as being sanitarily unfit for use and occupation as a bakehouse.
Slaughter Houses—Fortunately, in the Southern Division
only 4 slaughter Houses are licensed, while there are 27 in the
Northern Division. None of these gave rise to complaint, a fact
probably due to the slight use which is made of most of them;
indeed, the Inspector often finds them not in use at the time of his
visit. The ease with which meat can be brought into West Ham from
Smithfield safeguards the Borough in two ways, in lessening the
number and size of the animals slaughtered in the private slaughter