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48 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
(i.) No water closet, earth closet, privy or ashpit shall be within or
communicate directly with the Bakehouse.
(ii.) Any cistern for supplying water to the Bakehouse shall be
separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water to a watercloset.
(iii.) No drain or pipe for carrying off fæcal or sewage matter shall
have an opening within the Bakehouse.
Sect. 16.—Any room or place used as a Bakehouse (whether the same was or was not
so used before the passing of this Act) 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 of forty shillings, and on a second or any subsequent conviction,
five pounds.
FREDK. J. WALDO, M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
N.B.—Tho Medical Officer of Health requests that the cleansing shall take nlace in
April and October of each year.
Report on Proposed Reception House.
On the 24th inst. I attended the meeting, convened by the General Purposes
Committee, at which the Chairman and two members from the Works and Public
Health Committee, respectively, were present.
This meeting was to consider the question as to leasing land adjacent to the
Parish Stone Yard in King James' Street, also, with regard to this land, to decide
as to the instructions to be given your Surveyor for the preparation of plans prior to
the proposed building on that site of a reception house.
With a view to making the matter clear to the members of your Vestry, I will
repeat the actual words of the 60th Section of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
They are as follows :—
"The Sanitary Authority shall provide, free of charge, temporary shelter or house
accommodation, with any necessary attendants for the member of any family in
which any dangerous infectious disease has appeared, who have been compelled to
leave their dwellings for tho purpose of enabling such dwellings to be disinfected by the
Sanitary Authority."
The suggested site is, in my opinion, an excellent one, and well fitted in every
respect for the purpose of a temporary shelter, sometimes called a " reception " or
"refuge "house. The new steam disinfector in the Stone Yard directly faces the
proposed site on which a Reception House—with entry separate from the yard, and
opening into the street—might well be built.
With regard to the size of the house, after carefully taking into account the
needs of the district, I should advise that a minimum of eight rooms, besides bathroom
be provided. This number might be increased later on, if wanted. Additional
accommodation is needed for a caretaker and his wife.
The following table gives details of such tenements, with the names of the
commoner infectious diseases for the period between 1st of June, 1892, and 31st
of December, 1895:—