[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Wigan County Borough.

  • Wigan (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Wigan County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6, Boyswell Lane. 39, Wellington Street. 43, Scholes. 36, Wigan Lane. 105, Schofield Lane. 10a, Hardybutts. 19, Mesnes Street. 55, Birkett Bank. It is enacted by the same Act that after the 1st day of January, 1904, an underground bakehouse shall not be used unless certificated by the District Council, the County Borough Council being the authority in Wigan. The conditions were served on 18 occupiers of under¬ ground bakehouses. One was satisfactory, five had been discontinued, as the total stated in my report was 24 underground and 90 aboveground. We have now in the Borough 121 bakehouses and seven underground bakehouses which have received certificates. I presented the following report to your committee on January 6th, 1904, and this was confirmed by the Council on that day. Underground Bakehouses.—Report of the Medical Officer of Health was read, recommending that the fol¬ lowing underground bakehouses be certified as suitable for the purposes of bakehouses under Section 101 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, viz. :— No. 26, Market Street. No. 24, Earl Street. No. 108, Wallgate. Woodcock Street (Kennedy’s Restaurant). No. 34, Wigan Lane. No. 52, Market Street. No. 12, Wallgate. It is satisfactory to find that the underground bake¬ houses have been reduced to seven in number, and the Act prohibits any new bakehouse being built under¬ ground. MR. BISHOP’S REPORT. Number of bakehouses on the register, 121. Inspections and re-inspections during the year, 260, which revealed the following defects :—