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(12) Any damp, ill-ventilated or badly-lighted cellar, or underground
room, to be completely separated from the underground bakehouse.
By order of the Public Health Committee,
GEORGE P. BATE, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green
It is to be regretted that the Factory Act did not authorize the
issue of any bye-laws as to the maintenance of the required standard
of ventilation, lighting and cleanliness. Rules, founded upon the
sections of the Factory Acts regulating bakehouses, were formulated
and issued some years ago. They were recently, by order of the
Committee, brought up to date and reissued. These rules refer to
the conduct of all bakehouses both above and below ground, but
except where they follow the wording Factory Act, they cannot be
enforced.
Metropolitan Borough or Bethnal Green.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL BAKEHOUSES
This does not vary the Special Requirements as to
Underground Bakehouses.
A.—STRUCTURAL
1. Every room or place used as a bakehouse to be in such a state as to be,
on sanitary grounds, fit for use in occupation as a bakehouse.
2. No water-closet, earth-closet, privy or ashpit to be within, or communicate
directly with, the bakehouse.
3. Every cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse to 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 to have an
opening within the bakehouse.
5. All the inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse, and all the ceilings or
tops of the rooms (whether those walls, ceilings or tops are plastered or not),
and all the passages and staircases of a bakehouse, to be either painted with
Paragraphs in Italics are Revised Regulations, as the original ones were found to be too onerous.
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