Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1902
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(4) An underground bakehouse shall not be certified as
suitable unless the district council is satisfied that it is suitable
as regards construction, light, ventilation, and in all other
respects.
(5) This section shall have effect as if it were included
among the provisions relating to bakehouses which are referred
to in section twenty.six of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891.
(6) If any place is used in contravention of this section, it
shall be deemed to be a workshop not kept in conformity with
this Act.
(7) In the event of the refusal of a certificate by the
district council, the occupier of the bakehouse may, within
twenty.one days from the refusal, by complaint apply to a
court of summary jurisdiction, and if it appears to the satisfaction
of the court that the bakehouse is suitable for use as
regards construction, light, ventilation, and in all other
respects, the court shall thereupon grant a certificate of
suitability of the bakehouse, which shall have effect as if
granted by the district council.
(8) Where any place has been let as a bakehouse, and the
certificate required by this section cannot be obtained unless
structural alterations are made, and the occupier alleges that
the whole or part of the expenses of the alterations ought to
be borne by the owner, he may by complaint apply to a court
of summary jurisdiction, and that court may make such order
concerning the expenses or their apportionment as appears to
the court to be just and equitable, under the circumstances of
the case, regard being had to the terms of any contract
between the parties, or in the alternative the court may, at the
request of the occupier, determine the lease.