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It will facilitate the work of the Sub-Committee if a plan of the
bakehouse and of any suggested improvements be submitted with the
application for the certificate.
I am, Sir,
Yours obediently,
Francis J. Allan, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Hecdth.
City of Westminster.
Memorandum on Bakehouses.
In addition to the general provisions of the Factory and Public
Health Acts applying to workshops, special sanitary regulations are
contained in the former Act and are to be enforced in the City of
Westminster by the City Council in every bakehouse (whether retail or
not) which is a workshop (Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Section 26).
A "Bakehouse" is defined (Public Health Act, Section 141) as "any
place in which are baked bread, biscuits, or confectionery, from the
baking or selling of which a profit is derived."
The provisions of the Factory Act require that:—
(1). Every room or place used as a bakehouse to be in such a state
as to be, on sanitary grounds, fit for use in occupation as a
bakehouse. (Section 98).
(2). No water-closet, earth-closet, privy or ash-pit to be within, or
communicate directly with, the bakehouse. (Section 97a).
(3). Every cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse to be
separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water
to a water closet. (Section 97b).
(4). No drain or pipe for carrying off foecal or sewage matter to
have an opening within the bakehouse. (Section 97c).
(5). All the inside walls of the rooms of a bakehouse, and all the
ceilings or tops of the rooms (whether those walls, ceilings or
tops are plastered or not), and all the passages and staircases
of a bakehouse, to be either painted with oil or varnished,
or be limewashed, or be partly painted or varnished, and
partly limewashed; and
(a) 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 six months; and
(b) Where the bakehouse is limewashed the limewashing
must be renewed once at least in every six months.
(Section 99).