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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Regulations for Bakehouses,
Factory and Workshop Act, 1878 and Factory and Workshop Amendment Act, 1883.
1st.—All the inside walls of the rooms of such Bakehouse, and all the ceilings
or tops of such rooms (whether such walls, ceilings, or tops be plastered or not) and
all the passages and staircases of such Bakehouse shall either be painted with oil or
varnished, or be limewashed, or be partly painted or varnished, and partly limewashed;
where painted with oil or varnished, there shall be three coats of paint or
varnish, and the paint or varnish shall be renewed once at least in every seven years,
and shall be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months ;
where limewashed, the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in every six
months.
A Bakehouse in which there is any contravention of this Section shall be deemed
not to be kept in conformity with this Act.
2nd.—A place on the same level with a Bakehouse, and forming part of the same
building, shall not be used as a sleeping place unless it is constructed as follows:—
that is to say, unless it is effectually separated from an external glazed window of at
least nine superficial feet in area, of which at least four and a half superficial feet are
made to open for ventilation. Any person who lets or occupies, or continues to let
or knowingly suffers to be occupied, any place contrary to this Section, shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding for the first offence, twenty shillings, and for every subsequent
offence five pounds.
The Factory 3rd.—It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied as a Bakeand
Work-
shop Act,1883 house, or to occupy as a Bakehouse, any room or place which was not so
let or occupied before the 1st June, 1883, unless the following Regulations
are complied with :—
(a) No water closet, earth closet, privy or ashpit shall be within or
communicate directly with the Bakehouse.
(b) Any cistern for supplying water to the Bakehouse shall be
separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water to a watercloset.
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage matter shall
have an opening within the Bakehouse.
4th.—Any room or place used as a Bakehouse (whether the same was or was not
so used before the passing of this Act) is in such a state as to be, on sanitary
grounds, unfit for use or occupation as a Bakehouse, the occupier of the Bakehouse
shall be liable to a fine of forty shillings, and on a second or any subsequent conviction,
five pounds.
5th.—Every person refusing or failing to allow the Sanitary Authority or their
Officer to enter any premises in pursuance of those provisions, for the purpose of this
Section, shall be subject to a fine of five pounds.
FREDK. J. WALDO, M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
N.B.—The Medical Officer of Health requests that the cleansing shall take ulace in
April and October of each year.