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2. All the inside walls of the rooms of the bakehouse, and all the ceilings
or tops of such rooms, and all the passages and staircases of the bakehouse,
shall either be painted with oil, or varnished, or lime-washed.
Where painted with oil or 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. The cleansing should be
done in the months of April and October.
3. The troughs and all the utensils used in the making of bread and pastryshall
be kept scrupulously clean.
4. A place on the same level with the bakehouse, and forming part of the
same building, shall not be used as a sleeping place.
(a) Unless it is effectually separated from the bakehouse by a
partition extending from the floor to the ceiling.
(b) Unless there be an external glazed window of at least 9 superficial
feet of area, of which at the least 4½ superficial feet are
made to open for ventilation.
5. No water-closet, earth-closet, privy, or ash-pit shall be within, or communicate
directly with, the bakehouse.
6. Any cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse shall be separate and
distinct from any cistern for supplying water to a water-closet.
7. No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage matter shall have an
opening within the bakehouse, and every sink-waste, or other pipe used
for carrying off surface water within the bakehouse, shall be efficiently
trapped and disconnected from any drain.
8. Every Bakehouse shall be efficiently lighted, shall be ventilated so as to
render harmless all gases and dust, and shall not be overcrowded while
work is carried on therein.
9. Every Bakehouse shall be used for the purposes of the trade only.
10. No animal shall be kept in the bakehouse on any pretence whatever.
11. No person suffering, or who has recently suffered, from any infectious
disease shall be permitted to enter the bakehouse, or take part in the
manufacture or sale on the premises, of bread, biscuits or confectionery.
1'2. The owner or occupier of a bakehouse shall give immediate notice to the
Medical Officer of Health of any case of infectious disease occurring on
the same premises as the bakehouse.
PENALTIES.
Every bakehouse in which there is a contraventiou of Sections 3, 33, and
34 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, which provide for the