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17. No animal shall be allowed in or have access to the
bakehouse.
18. The bakehouse shall not be used as a room for
washing or drying clothes.
19. All statutory obligations shall be fulfilled.
20. Before making any alterations with a view to meeting
these requirements the owner or occupier of the bakehouse
shall submit to the Sanitary Authority a specification of the
alterations which it is proposed to make, and no work shall
be begun until the applicant has been informed that the
specification has been approved.
Before alterations were begun the builder engaged by the
occupier was met on the premises by the Medical Officer
of Health or the Chief Sanitary Inspector, and detailed
instructions were given as to the means by which the Council's
requirements could be best carried out. A specification was
then submitted by the builder, and until this was approved,
the work was not allowed to begin. While in progress the
work was supervised by the Workshop Inspector, but frequent
visits were paid by the Medical Officer of Health and by the
Chief Sanitary Inspector. A considerable amount of the time
of the Council's officers was taken up in this work of prescribing
and supervising the alterations. Not infrequently the
requirements had to be explained to two or even three builders
before a specification satisfactory to all parties could be
secured.
The constructional work carried out to fulfil the Council's
requirements was on the following lines:—
Floors.—The floors were constructed of 6 inch concrete
with a smooth surface of cement and granite chippings. In
two cases where it was difficult to keep out the damp the
concrete was laid on a bed of asphalte or patent impervious
paving.
Walls.—The plaster was hacked off, the joints raked out,
and the walls rendered in Portland cement trowelled to a