Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1902
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(2) No water-closet, earth-closet, privy or ash-pit shall be
within, or communicate directly with, the bakehouse.
(3) Every cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse
shall be separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying
water to a water-closet.
(4) No drain or pipe for carrying off fœcal or sewage
matter shall have an opening within the bakehouse.
(5) All the inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse, and
all the ceilings or tops of those rooms (whether those
walls, ceilings or tops are plastered or not) and all the
passages and staircases of a bakehouse, shall be either
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 six
months; and
( b) Where the bakehouse is limewashed, the limewashing
must be renewed once at least in every six
months.
(6) No place on the same level with a bakehouse, and
forming part of the same building, shall 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, fourand-a-half
superficial feet are made to open for
ventilation: