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the drainage of their own side of the road. The
Metropolitan Board of Works has also been communicated
with, with the view to their providing a system
of sewerage for the locality, but no reply has yet been
received from them upon the subject.
Market, Clerkenwell Green.—In consequence of
the suitability of the site, and of a memorial from the
inhabitants of the neighbourhood, the Yestry, in
September, passed a resolution to allow Clerkenwell
Green to be used as a Market on Saturdays, and
posters were placarded about the locality, and generally
about the Markets of the Metropolis, calling attention
to the fact, but hitherto no great success has been
achieved.
Regulation of Bakehouses.—In September, 1882,
a letter was received from the Yestry of St. Pancras,
forwarding a copy of a report by their Medical Officer
of Health on the subject of the regulation of Bakehouses.
The Report called attention to the infrequency
of the visits of the Factory Inspector to the
Bakehouses in that parish, little more than a third
having been visited by him since the passing of the Act
in 1878.
The Yestry's Medical Officer of Health, accompanied
by the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee, then
made an inspection of the bakehouses in this Parish,
with the result that they found that twenty-four, out of
a total of sixty, had not been visited by the Factory Inspector
at all. A resolution was passed strongly condemnatory
of the retrograde character of the legislation
which transferred the powers of inspection from
the Vestries and District Boards, as the Local Sanitary
Authorities, to the Factory Inspectors, and forwarded