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sanitary condition and cleansing of the bakehouse, shall be deemed
not to be kept in conformity with the Act, and the occupier thereof
is liable for default to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
The use of a bakehouse for sleeping purposes, or of a room on the same
level as the bakehouse, insufficiently separated from it and insufficiently
ventilated and lighted, is punishable under the 35th Section of the same
Act by a fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings for the first offence, and of
a sum not exceeding Five Pounds for every subsequent offence.
An infringement of the 15th Section of the Factory and Workshop Act,
1883, which prohibits—
A direct communication between a water-closet, earth- closet,
privy, or ash-pit, with the bakehouse;
The supply of water to a bakehouse from a cistern also supplying
a water-closet;
The opening into a bakehouse of a drain currying off faecal or
sewage matter;
is punishable by a fine not exceeding Forty Shillings, and a further fine
not exceeding Five Shillings for every day during which the infringement
is continued after a conviction.
It only remains to add, that the number of bakehouses in
this parish is 146; 83 of these being in the district north
of Uxbridge Road, and 63 in the remainder of the parish
south of that road.
REGULATIONS WITH REGARD TO HOUSES LET
IN LODGINGS, &c.
The Sanitary Act, 1866, Section 85, enables the
Local Government Board, on the application of a Nuisance
Authority, by Notice to be published in the London Gazette,
to "declare the following Enactment to be in force in the
district of such Nuisance Authority, and from and after
the publication of such notice the Nuisance Authority shall
be empowered to make Regulations for the following matters:
that is to say:—
1.—For Fixing the Number of Persons who may occupy a House, or Part
of a House, which is Let in Lodgings, or occupied by Members
of more than One Family.
2.—For the Registration of Houses thus let or occupied in Lodgings.
3.—For the Inspection of such Houses, and the keeping of the same in
a cleanly and wholesome state.
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