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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1902
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1902
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26, Downs
Boad.
Height 8ft 8in.
Length 14ft, 9in. Width
12ft. Cubic space 1534
ft. Walls—brick. Ceiling
—lath and plaster.
Floor—concrete.
Skylight
9ft.6in. x 4ft.
6in. One gas
burner used.
Hanging
window in
skylight 4ft.
6in. x 1ft.
3in.
Access —by steps from
shop. Store—room at
front of bakehouse.
Drain inlet—none in
bakehouse. Water
supply — direct from
main. W.C.'s-one in
house.
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One man employed
about 60 hours per week.
Lease—21 years unexpired.
This bakehouse
is entirely below level of
adjoining ground.
Ventilation bad.