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"(8) Suitable w.c. accommodation to be provided for the employees
of each sex.
"(9) Lavatory basins to be provided in a suitable position for each
sex, outside the kitchen if possible, for the use of the employees.
"(10) Provision to be made for hanging the employees' wearing
apparel in a suitable place outside the kitchen.
"(11) There shall not be in direct communication with the kitchen
or other place where food is prepared or stored any coal or other cellar
room, unpaved yard or area, which may be a nuisance or cause contamination
by foul air, dust or dirt. Coals and coke for immediate use
should be stored in a suitable bin with close cover.
"(12) It is desirable there should be elsewhere than in the kitchen:—
"(a) Provision for the storage of food.
"(b) A scullery (with all necessary drainage, racks for
plates, shelves for saucepans, &c.).
"(13) No place on the same level with a kitchen or other room used
for the storage or preparation of food, and forming part of the same
building, to be used as a sleeping place, unless it is constructed as
follows, that is to say:—
"(a) is effectually separated from the kitchen by a partition
extended from the floor to the ceiling;
"(b) has an external glazed window of at least 9 superficial feet in
area, of which, at the least, 4½ superficial feet are made to
open for ventilation;
and unless such sleeping room (if separately occupied) comply with the
requirements as to underground rooms, of Section 96 of the Public
Health (London) Act.
B. Ventilation.
"(14) The kitchen shall be properly and effectually ventilated by
permanent inlets and outlets, communicating directly with the open
air, in such a way, and at such a height above the street level, as to
prevent the entrance of street dust and dirt. Where natural ventilation
is not effective or insufficient to ensure proper ventilation without
producing draughts, fans or other artificial means should be provided.
"(15) Hoods to be placed over gas or other stoves or ranges, to
carry off the fumes and heat, such hoods to be in direct communication
with the external air by means of shafts or flues.
C. Lighting.
"(16) Where practicable, natural light should be utilised. Where
gas is used, means of carrying off the products of combustion should be
provided.
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