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(c) Ventilation.—This should be sufficient, and the air
supplied should be drawn directly from the outer air in such a
way as to exclude street dust or dirt.
(d) All other respects.—1. There should be suitable and
safe means of access to the bakehouse.
2. The store for flour should be separate from the bakehouse
and properly ventilated and lighted.
3. Troughs should not be fixed, but movable and provided
with castors or rollers. Of course all other statutory
requirements must be observed.
The conditions must be observed to the satisfaction of the Medical
Officer of Health.
During the year 1903 many of the bakers of the district set about
altering their underground bakehouses to comply with the above
standard of suitability. There are 69 underground bakehouses in
the Borough of Hackney, and at the time of writing the Public
Health Committee has granted certificates of suitability to 54 of
these. In one or two cases the Committee allowed the use of the
underground bakehouses without certifying the same for periods of
one to three years, at the end of which periods the owners undertook
to give up the use of the underground bakehouses and provide
above-ground bakehouses. I may here add that 7 underground
bakehouses have been closed during 1903.
There still remains a few underground bakehouses where the
alterations, necessary to obtain a certificate of suitability, are now
proceeding.