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(i) Unless there be an external glazed window of at least 9 superficial
feet of area, of which at 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 fæcal 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 he permitted to enter the bakehouse, or take part in the
manufacture or sale on the premises, of bread, biscuits, or confectionery.
12. 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 contravention of Sections 3, 33,
and 34 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, which provide for the
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 carrying off fecal 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.