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(b) Light.
(5) The bakehouse shall be supplied with one or more windows, so as to
be efficiently lighted, by means which shall exclude the entrance of street dust.
Such window or windows must have a total superficial area, clear of the sash
frame, equal to one-tenth of the floor space.
(c) Ventilation.
(6) The bakehouse shall be properly ventilated by permanent inlets and
outlets—other than the windows—communicating directly with the open air. If
necessary, artificial means of ventilation must be provided.
(d) All Other Respects.
(7) Proper provision shall be made for the storage of flour elsewhere than
in the undergound bakehouse itself.
(8) Conveniences for personal ablution shall be provided, in a suitable
position, and shall include a water-tap and sink or lavatory basin of an approved
pattern. (These conveniences should be outside the bakehouse.)
(9) Proper provision shall be made for the depositing of wearing material
outside the underground bakehouse.
(10) All troughs, tables, or other furniture standing on the floor of the
underground bakehouse shall be provided with strong, ball-bearing castors.
(11) An underground bakehouse shall not be in communication with a washhouse,
nor with any room, cellar or area containing objectionable materials.
(12) An underground room, not entirely separated from the underground
bakehouse, shall be well lighted thoughout, shall be sufficiently protected against
the entrance of ground air, shall be properly ventilated, and shall be at all times
clean.
(13) Before making any alterations with a view to meeting these requirements,
the owners or occupiers of underground bakehouses shall submit to the
Sanitiary Authority a specification (and plans) of the alterations which they
purpose making.
There are in our Borough 201 retail bakehouses, 93 of them being underground.
I personally visited every bakehouse during the last week in September and the first
week in October. Some of the underground bakehouses were so structurally defective
that it will be impossible for the owners to remedy them, in order to bring them
within the requirements of the Public Health Committee. They will therefore have
to be closed. I indicated to the owners of the others on what lines structural
alterations should be made.