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'5- No water-closet, earth-closet, privy, or ash-pit shall be within, or communicate
directly with the bakehouse.
'6. Any cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse shall be separate and distinct
from any cistern for supplying water to a water-closet.
'7. No drain or pipe for carrying off fæcal or sewage matter shall have an opening
within the bakehouse, and every sink-waste, or other pipe used for
carrying off surface water within the bakehouse, shall be efficiently trapped
and disconnected from any drain.
'8. Every bakehouse shall be efficiently lighted, shall be ventilated so as to
render harmless all gases and dust, and shall not be overcrowded while work
is carried on therein.
' 9. Every bakehouse shall be used for the purpose of the trade only.
' 10. No animal shall be kept in the bakehouse on any pretence whatever.
'11. No person suffering, or who has recently suffered, from any infectious disease
shall be permitted to enter the bakehouse, or take part in the manufacture
or sale on the premises, of bread, biscuits or confectionery.
'12. The owner or occupier of a bakehouse shall give immediate notice to the
Medical Officer of Health of any case of infectious disease occurring on the
same premises as the bakehouse.
1 PENALTIES.—Every bakehouse in which there is a contravention of
Sections 3, 33, or 34 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, which
provide for the sanitary condition and cleansing of the bakehouse,
shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with the Act, and the
occupier thereof is liable for default to a fine not exceeding tew pounds.
'The use of a bakehouse for sleeping purposes, or of a room on the same level
as the bakehouse, insufficiently separated from it and insufficiently ventilated
and lighted, is punishable under the 35th Section of the same Act
by a fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings for the first offence, and of a sum
not exceeding Five Pounds for every subsequent offence.
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'An infringement of the 15th Section of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1883,
which prohibits—
A direct communication between a water-closet, earth-closet,
privy, or ash-pit, with the bakehouse;
The supply of water to a bakehouse from a cistern also supplying
a water-closet;
The opening into a bakehouse of a drain carrying off faecal or
sewage matter,
is punishable by a fine not exceeding Forty Shillings, and a further fine not
exceeding Five Shillings for every day during which the infringement is
continued after a conviction.'
"No further opportunity was afforded for dealing with the subject
of bakehouse regulation until the Session of 1891, when a
Government Bill to 'amend the law relating to Factories and Workshops'
was introduced, which enabled me to recommend your
Vestry to make a further effort in this direction. The Home
Secretary, it will be remembered, had stated to the Operative Bakers'
and Confectioners' Union, in 1883, that 'the Government would by