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Bethnal Green 1902

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1902

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101 (8) —Where the certificate required 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.
Minimum Requirements for Underground Bakehouses, 1904
An underground bakehouse shall not be used as such after January Ist, 1904,
unless such underground bakehouse be, in the opinion of the Medical Officer of
Health, suitable and fit on sanitary grounds for use or occupation as a bakehouse,
as shewn by possessing the following minimum sanitary requirements:—
A. — Construction .
(1) The underground bakehouse to be of a minimum capacity of 1,000 cubic
feet, and to be in every part thereof at least 7-ft. 6-in. high.
(2) The walls to be made, and kept at all times, smooth and impervious
throughout, so that the underground bakehouse is free
from damp.
(3) The ceilings to be properly ceiled, and to be kept impervious to
dust, or, if made of brick, rendered smooth.
(4) The floors to be made with at least 6in. concrete, rendered smooth
in cement, in cement, or with other jointless or impervious paving throughout,
so that the underground bakehouse is free from damp.
(5) All fixed woodwork, e.g., window frames, doors and door frames,
and staircasings within the bakehouse, to be made sound
and painted with three coats of good oil colour.
(6) There is to be appurtenant to, but outside and totally distinct
from, and not communicating directly with, the underground
bakehouse (preferably in an open yard adjoining and connected
by a covered way) water-closet accommodation, which shall be
sufficient, suitable and separate for the use of the two sexes (if
required), together with a proper and sufficient receptacle or
receptacles for the deposit of ashes or refuse matters.
7 Any drain passing under an underground bakehouse to be properly
constructed of a gas and water-tight pipe, and no gulley to be
provided within the underground bakehouse for the purpose of
removing waste waters therefrom, unless the drain from such