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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 at least in six months; and
(6) 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, to 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.
B.—Administrative.
1. The bakehouse to be kept at all times periodically cleansed, and in a
cleanly state, and free from offensive effluvia arising from drains, w.c's, urinals,
or other nuisance.
2. Nothing to be stored within the underground bakehouse itself, and no
sweepings, ashes, or other refuse matters to be allowed to remain and accumulate,
but to be removed from such underground bakehouse immediately after
the day's work be concluded, or shift changed.
3. All utensils, troughs, etc., to be kept at all times scrupulously clean
4. No animal to be kept in a bakehouse on any pretence whatever
5. No overcrowding to be allowed at any time within a bakehouse—a
minimum 250 cubic feet of space being allowed for each person employed
therein during ordinary work, and 400 cubic feet of space during overtime.
A number of notices were served upon the occupiers of bakehouses
with respect to want of cleanliness and defective ventilation.
Most of these were obeyed, but H. H. of Green Street was, after
repeated warnings, summoned to Worship Street and fined 40s. and
235. costs for failing to keep his bakehouse in a cleanly condition. I
understand that the Secretary of State purposes issuing a new regulation
(as he has power to do under section 3 (2) of the Factory and
Workshops' Act, 1901), substituting the proportion of 500 cubic feet
of air space to each workman in bakehouses instead of the 250 at