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both before and after the ordinary period of employment* on the
same day, nor after the ordinary period on one day and before
the ordinary period on the next day. (Factory Act, 1901,
Section 38.)
B.— Regulations applying to Underground Bakehouses.
8. No underground Bakehouse may be used as such unless it
was being used as a Bakehouse on and before August 17th, 1901,
and no underground Bakehouse, which was in use on and after
August 17th, 1901, may be used as such after January 1st. 1904,
unless certified by the Finsbury Borough Council to be suitable.
9. An underground Bakehouse shall not be certified as suitable
unless the Finsbury Borough Council is satisfied that it is
suitable as regards (i) construction; (ii) light; (iii) ventilation and
(iv) in all other respects. (Factory Act, 1901, Section 101, Subsection
4).
(i) Construction:—
The underground Bakehouse must have a capacity of not less
than 1,000 cubic feet.
(a) Height. The underground Bakehouse should be in every
part thereof 8 ft. high, measured from the floor to the ceiling,
and should have at least 3 ft. of its height above the surface of
the footway of the adjoining street, or of the ground adjoining or
nearest to the Bakehouse, unless provided with a sufficient area
or areas directly communicating with the external air into which
a window or windows of such underground Bakehouse open.
(b) Ceilings. The ceilings are to be properly ceiled or, if
made of brick, to be made smooth and impervious and to be
º By Section 26, Factory & Workshop Act, ordinary period of employment
is defined as follows:— " Work to begin at 6 o'clock in the morning
and end at 6 o'clock in evening, or begin at 7 o'clock in the morning
and end at 7 o'clock in the evening, or begin at 8 o'clock in the morning
and end at 8 o'clock in the evening, except on Saturday, when work must
cease at either 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, or 4 o'clock respectively. On every day
except Saturday there must be at least 1½ hours allowed for meals.