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Hackney 1902

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1902

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Section 98.—(1) Where a court of summary jurisdiction is satisfied
on the prosecution of an inspector or a district council that
any room or place used as a bakehouse 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
not exceeding, for the first offence, forty shillings, and for any
subsequent offence five pounds.
(2) The court of summary jurisdiction, in addition to or
instead of inflicting a fine, may order means to be adopted by
the occupier, within the time named in the order, for the
purpose of removing the ground of complaint. The court
may, on application, enlarge the time so named, but if after
the expiration of the time as originally named or enlarged by
subsequent order is not complied with, the occupier shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding one pound for every day that the
non.compliance continues.
Section 99.—(1) All the inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse,
and all the ceilings and tops of those rooms (whether those
walls ceilings, or tops are plastered or not), and all the passages
and staircases of a bakehouse, must either be painted with oil
or varnished or be limewashed, or be partly painted or varnished
and partly limewashed ; and
(a) where the bakehouse is painted with oil or
varnished, there must be three coats of paint or varnish,
and the paint or varnish must be renewed once at least in
every seven years, and must be washed with hot water and
soap once at least in every six months ; and
(b) where the bakehouse is limewashed, the lime.
washing must be renewed once at least in every six months.
(2) A bakehouse in which there is a contravention of this
section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this
Act.