TABLE XXVI-BAKERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES HAVING OUTSIDE CLOSETS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF CLOSETS. In Milwaukee. Outside Total. Establishments having Number. Per cent. Number Per cent Number. Per cent. * Three establishments in Milwaukee and two outside Milwaukee have an inside and outside closet each. One in Milwaukee has 4 inside and 1 outside and one has 2 of each. One outside Milwaukee has 2 inside and 1 outside closet. TABLE XXVII BAKERIES AND CONFECTIONERIES HAVING CLOSETS CLASSIFIED AS TO NUMBER OF CLOSETS. Tables XXV-XXVII afford an idea of the nature of the toilet facilities provided by the bakeries of the state for their employees. The law stipulates that toilet facilities shall be ample, and that no closet shall be within or communicate directly with any work-room of a bakery. In Milwaukee a large majority of the closets are within the buildings occupied, but a majority of those in other cities of the state are outside. TABLE XXVIII-NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS USING STEAM POWER, NUMBER OF BOILERS INSURED, AND AVERAGE EXPERIENCE OF ENGINEER. The above table shows that 16 of the establishments inspected use steam power, having from one to two boilers each. Over four-fifths of all the boilers are insured. TABLE XXIX-NUMBER OF ORDERS ISSUED FROM JULY 1, 1904, TO OCT. 31, 1906. Table XXIX shows the changes ordered by the inspector during the period covered by this report. For the 839 establishments inspected, a total of 892 orders were issued, an average of more than one to each establishment. The greater number of the orders related to whitewashing or painting the walls of the work-rooms, improving the general sanitary conditions of the rooms, and cleaning the furniture and utensils used. All orders issued were enforced. Although the value of the bakery inspection law has been demonstrated during the period of its existence, it has been found to be defective in certain particulars, and efforts are at present being made to amend it in such a manner as to increase its efficiency. If these efforts prove successful, the law can hardly fail to be regarded as one of the most efficacious statutes for guarding the health of the people of the state. FREE EMPLOYMENT OFFICES. The first free employment offices in Wisconsin were established pursuant to chapter 420 of the laws of 1901 which provided for such offices in each city having a population exceeding thirty thousand. This act applied only to Milwaukee and Superior at which places state employment offices were established. In 1903 the above law was repealed and a new law, chapter 434, laws of 1903, was enacted authorizing the establishment of four free employment offices in such cities as were determined upon by a state commission. In addition to those already opened at Milwaukee and Superior, offices were established under this law at La Crosse and Oshkosh. The following tables show the number of applications for employment and for help, both for males and females and the disposition of such application at each of the state employment offices for the year ending June 30, 1905, and June 30, 1906, a summary of the work of each office during the biennial period and summary of the work of the four offices during that period. As the office at Oshkosh was not opered until November, 1904, the first report from that city is for only 32 weeks of the year ending June 30, 1905. |