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Hackney 1902

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

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Section 100.—(1) A place on the same level with a bakehouse
and forming part of the same building, may not be used as a
sleeping place, unless it is constructed as follows: that is to
say
(a) is effectually separated from the bakehouse by a
partition extending from the floor to the ceiling; and
(b) has an external glazed window of at least nine
superficial feet in area, of which at the least four and a half
superficial feet are made to open for ventilation.
(2) If any person let or occupies or continues to let or
knowingly suffers to be occupied any place contrary to this
section he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding for the first
offence, twenty shillings, and for any subsequent offence five
pounds.
(b) Underground Bakehouses
Section 101.—(1) An underground bakehouse shall not be used
as a bakehouse unless it was so used at the passing of this
Act.
(2) Subject to the foregoing provision, after the first day of
January, one thousand nine hundred and four, an underground
bakehouse shall not be used unless certified by the district
council to be suitable for that purpose.
(3) For the purpose of this section an underground bakehouse
shall mean a bakehouse, any baking room of which is so
situate that the surface of the floor is more than three feet
below the surface of the footway of the adjoining street, or of
the ground adjoining or nearest to the room, The expression
" baking room " means any room used for baking, or for any
process incidental thereto.