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Dairies.
Attention has been called to the cowkeepers
who had allowed more cattle to be kept in the sheds
than is permitted by the Dairies and Milkshops
Order. The numbers will be reduced or extra
accommodation will be built.
Bakehouses.
All have been inspected twice during the year.
A few bakehouses are underground, and the following
letter was sent to the proprietors of these establishments
:
Clattern House,
December 5, 1895.
Sir,
1 think it most desirable that the bakehouses
should be in thoroughly good order, more especially
those that are underground either entirely or partially.
With a view to remedying the disadvantages of
position I would desire to call your attention to the
following recommendations:
1. That every underground bakehouse should
have an area 4ft. wide constructed outside, if practical
on two sides, reaching from the level of the floor
upwards to the level of the adjacent land.
2. Windows should be constructed to open
from the area into the bakehouses with openings on
the flap principle, opening either outwards or inwards,
so as to allow of free ventilation. These windows
should be as large as possible.
3.—The walls of the bakehouse should be lined
with glazed bricks, or tiled, and the water supply
should, where there is a constant system, be taken
from the rising main. No drain should on any
account open into the bakehouse.