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2.—That, in the case of the Medical Officer of Health, or other
Medical Practitioner, certifying that the retention of a dead body in a
dwelling, is specially dangerous to health, removal to such public
mortuary, be compulsory.
3.—That undertakers be in all cases required to surround bodies,
before closing down the coffins, with disinfecting substances.
Cow-houses and Slaughter-house Licences.—Systematic inspections
of the places licensed for the above purposes have been made by the
Inspector, in order to ascertain if the regulations as to order and
cleanliness are maintained. Special inspections have also been made by
the Sewers Committee, accompanied by the Medical Officer, to decide
upon the eligibility of premises for which new applications for licenses
have been made. The Clerk, Medical Officer, and Inspector, acting
upon the decision of this Committee, attended before the Magistrates
who are empowered to grant the licences. On the evidence of the
Medical Officer, a licence was refused on an application for premises in
Great Chart Street; in the case of a Cow-house in Albert Mews, to
which the assent of the Vestry had been suspended, the licence was
granted on the statement of the Medical Officer, that the required
alterations on the premises were in satisfactory progress.
Sanitary Legislation.—The Bake-houses.—An Act called the Bakehouses
regulation Act was passed in 1863. The object was to secure
cleanliness and ventilation in these establishments. The Vestry
adopted the course of issuing to all the Bakers in the Parish, a summary
of the Act, in order that they might clearly understand the regulations
to which the Act subjects them. This document is printed in the
appendix. It was distributed by the Inspector, who reports that the
number of Bakers in the Parish amounts to 151. As there is no
provision for licensing Bakehouses, as is done in the case of Cow-houses
and Slaughter-houses, it has not been felt necessary to deal with Bakehouses
in a special manner. Their sanitary condition will be regulated
in the same manner as that of ordinary houses.