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PENALTY TOR BAKEHOUSE BEING UNFIT ON SANITARY GROUNDS.
If any room or place used as a bakehouse is in such a state as to be on
sanitary grounds unfit for use or occupation as a bakehouse, the occupier of the
bakehouse shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, for the first offence, forty
shillings, and any subsequent offence, five pounds.
LIME-WASHING, PAINTING AND WASHING
All the inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse, and all the ceilings or tops
of those rooms, whether those walls, ceilings or tops are plastered or not, and all
the passages and staircases of a bakehouse, must either be painted with oil or
varnished, or lime-washed, or be partly painted or varnished and partly limewashed
.
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 once at
least in every six mouths.
Where the bakehouse is lime-washed, the lime-washing must be renewed at
least once in every six months.
AS TO SLEBPING PLACES NEAR BAKEHOUSES.
A place on the same level with a bakehouse, and forming part of the same
building may not 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 ;
(4) Has an external glazed window of at least nine superficial feet in
area, of which at least 4½ super. feet are made to open for
ventilation.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO UNDERGROUND BAKEHOUSES.
No underground bakehouse shall be used as such unless it was so used at
the time of the passing of this Act (August 17th, 1901).
An underground bakehouse shall mean a bakehouse, any baking room of
which is so situated that the surface of the floor is more than 3 feet below the
footway of the adjoining street, or of the ground adjoining, or nearest to the
room.
After January 1, 1904, it will not be lawful to use any underground bakehouse
(whenever established) unless the Council are satisfied that it is suitable
for the purpose in regard to construction, light, ventilation, and in all other
respects, and a certificate of suitability has been given by the Borough Council.
Where the certificate required by Section 101 cannot be obtained unless
structural alterations are made, in order to bring any underground bakehouse