§ MR. E. H. BAYLEYI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether, in view of the large and increasing number of unventilated and unventilatable underground bakehouses in London (there being 21 in one parish in Southwark alone), causing injury to the health of the journeymen bakers and possible contamination of the food of the public, be will, in order to prevent the evil in future, insert 'a clause in "The Public Health (London) Act, 1891," forbidding cellar bakehouses, and requiring all bakehouses to be registered direct to the Sanitary Authority previously to their being opened, in a similar manner to that adopted in the case of slaughter and cowhouses; whether be will state approximately the number of under- 1068 ground workshops and dwellings in London; and whether, with a view to prevent the use of such dwellings, he will cause the elimination of the word "separate" from Section 96 (1) of "The Public Health (Loudon) Act, 1891"?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. H. H. FOWLER,) Wolverhampton, E.There are provisions in the Factory and Workshops Acts with respect to the cleanliness, ventilation, and other sanitary conditions of bakehouses. Under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, these provisions are to be enforced by the Sanitary Authority of the district in which the bakehouse is situated, and they are the Local Authority under the meaning of the Factory and Workshops Acts. Those Acts impose heavy penalties in any case where a Court of Summary Jurisdiction is satisfied on the prosecution of an Inspector or Sanitary Authority that any room or place used as a bakehouse is in such a condition as to be on sanitary grounds unfit for use or occupation as a bakehouse. I have no information as to the number of underground workshops and dwellings in Loudon. The provisions as to cellar-bakehouses and underground dwellings were considered by Parliament so recently as 1891, when the Public Health (London) Act was passed.