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They wore mostly found in good order, some in excellent order;
a few, however, were dirty, with the sinks or traps defective.
In regard to the visits of the Factory Inspector, some of the
bake-houses are stated to have been visited every three months,
some nine or ten months, a year, a year and a half, and two years
ago; while 24 of the 60 had never been inspected at all.
It appears to me that the now Government inspection must be
very unsatisfactory to the parishioners, for when the inspection
was made by the Vestry, it was made known to the parishioners
by the Vestry that the bake-houses wore in a satisfactory condition,
and if they were not so, the law was at once applied. But
according to the new arrangement, the reports upon their condition
are made to what may be called a distant land, and no one in the
parish knows anything about their state. Most of the bake-houses
which had not been inspected by the Factory Inspector, are
situated in the Upper Wards, one in the Lower Wards was
inspected for the first time at Easter, this year.
I may state, that during my inspection, no "terrible state,"
with open drains, animals kept therein, untrapped closets, nor
beds, as described to exist in the London bake-houses by the
Factory Inspector, were met with.
No sanitary defects in any bake-house were referred to the
Vestry by the Factory Inspector during the year.
Mortuary.—During the year, 188 bodies were received at the
mortuary, and kept until burial. Of these. 94 were brought for
inquest purposes, upon which 48 post-mortems were made; while
94 were brought from houses of the parishioners, whore the
corpses would otherwise have remained in living rooms.