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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health.—1896. 75
Regulations for Bakehouses.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, and Factory and Workshop Amendment Act, 1883.
The Factory
and Workshop
Act,
1878.
Sect. 34.—All the inside walls of the rooms or such bakehouse
and all the ceilings or tops of such rooms (whether such walls, ceilings,
or tops be plastered or not) and all the passages and staircases of such
Bakehouse shall either be painted with oil or varnished, or be limewashed,
or be partly painted or varnished, and partly lime-washed ;
where painted with oil and varnished, there shall be three coats of paint
or varnish, and the paint or varnish shall be renewed once at least in
every seven years, and shall be washed with hot water and soap once at
least in every six months; where lime-washed, the lime-washing shall
be renewed once at least in every six months.
A Bakehouse in which there is any contravention of this section shall be deemed
not to be kept in conformity with this Act.
Sect. 35.—A place on the same level with a Bakehouse, and forming part of the
same building, shall not be used as a sleeping place unless it is constructed as follows:—
that is to say, unless it is effectually separated from an external glazed window of at
least nine superficial feet in area, of which at least four and a half superficial feet are
made to open for ventilation. Any person who lets or occupies, or continues to let or
knowingly suffers to be occupied any place contrary to this Section, shall be liable to
a fine not exceeding for the first offence, twenty shillings, and for every subsequent
offence five pounds.
The Factory
and Workshop
Act,
1883.
Sect. 15.—It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied as a
Bakehouse, or to occupy as a Bakehouse, any room or place which was
not so let or occupied before the 1st Jnne, 1883*, unless the following
Regulations are complied with:—-
(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.—The Medical Officer of Health requests that the cleansing shall take place in
April and October of each year.
Regulatious for Mortuary.
1. Application for permission to deposit a body in the mortuary shall be made
to the mortuary keeper or at the office of the Health Department, Vestry Hall, Borough
Road.
*As already pointed out, the words in italics were repealed by the Factory and Workshop Amendment
Act. 1895.