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Underground Bakehouses in use at the time of the passing of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901 (17th August), but not now in use:—
Dover Street, 5
Old Bond Street, 46
East Chapel Street, 2
Knightsbridge, 195
Eccleston Street, 24
Motcomb Street, 23
Cambridge Street, 56
Pimlico Road, 6
*Clare Court, 5
*Drury Lane, 86
*Stanhope Street, 50
Carnaby Street, 34
*Clare Street, 13
Ebury Street, 207
Great Chapel Street, 7
Strutton Ground, 26
Regency Street, 51
St. James Street, 7
Hay market, 54
Strand, 442
*Strand, 93
*Long Acre, 42
*Blackmore Street, 18
*Vere Street, 9
*Clare Street, 16
Brompton Road, 116
Nine of these bakehouses (marked *) are to be pulled down in
connection with street or other improvements. It may be desired to
use some of the others at some future time, in which case they would
have to be put into condition satisfactory for certification by the
Council.
Underground bakehouses at the following premises were not in use
at the date of the passing of the Act, and are thereby debarred from
use as such in future:—
Little Chester Street, 5
Churton Street, 35
Regency Street, 115
Wardour Street, 128
Moor Street, 16
Bear Street, 12
Bow Street, 2
Ponsonby Place, 81
Rochester Row, 52
Coventry Street, 18 and 19
Order by Home Secretary modifying amount of cubic space for persons
employed in bakehouses, dated 30th December, 1903.
The Order is made in pursuant of Section 3 (2) of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901, and came into force on the 1st January, 1904.
The modifications are:—
(1) As regards underground bakehouses, by the substitution of
"500 cubic feet of space to every person" for "250 cubic
feet of space to every person" and
(2) As regards bakehouses (other than such as are underground)
where work is carried on at night by artificial light other
than electric light, by the substitution of, in respect of the
period between nine in the evening and six in the succeeding
morning, "400 cubic feet of space to every person" for
"250 cubic feet of space to every person."
This Order came in force on the 1st January, 1904, and a copy
thereof was sent by the Council to each baker in the City. I have
gone through the list of bakehouses and compared the amounts of
cubic space with the number of persons employed and find that it will
affect one or two bakehouses, but only to the extent of one person each
employed occasionally.