Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1897
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persons who may be employed therein at one time,
must be affixed in a suitable position, and so as to
be easily read.
4. Every Bakehouse shall be well ventilated.
5. The interior of every Bakehouse (viz., the inside
walls and ceilings or tops of all rooms, all passages
and staircases) shall, if painted or varnished, be
thoroughly washed with hot water and soap once
at least in every six months, and renewed with
three coats of paint or varnish once at least in
every seven years.
6. The interior of every Bakehouse (viz., the inside
walls and ceilings or tops of all rooms, all passages
and staircases) shall, if not painted or varnished,
be limewashed at least once in every six months,
e.g., in March and September.
7. No place on the same level with the Bakehouse and
forming part of the same building shall be used as
a sleeping room, except it is effectually separated
from the Bakehouse by a partition extending from
floor to ceiling, and unless there is an external
glazed window of at least 9 superficial feet in area,
of which not less than 4½ superficial feet are made
to open for ventilation.
8. No closet or ashpit or other receptacle for refuse
shall be within or communicate directly with the
Bakehouse.
9. Every cistern supplying water to a Bakehouse shall
be separate and distinct from the cistern supplying
water to a closet.
10. No drain or pipe for carrying off sewage or fœcal
matter shall have an opening within the Bakehouse.