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8. No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal 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.
9. 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.
10. Every bakehouse shall be used for the purposes of the trade
only.
11. No animal shall be kept in the bakehouse on any pretence
whatever.
12. 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.
13. 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.
Penalties.
Every bakehouse in which there is a contravention of Sections 3,
33 and 34 of the Factory and Workshops 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 ten 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.
An infringement of the loth Section of the Factory and Workshops
Act, 1883, which prohibits :—
A direct communication between a watercloset, earthcloset,
privy or ashpit with the bakehouse;
The supply of water to a bakehouse from a cistern also supplying
a watercloset;
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,
October, 1896.