Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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"(II) Any cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse shall
be separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water
to a water-closet.
"(III) No drain or pipe for carrying off fæcal or sewage
matter shall have an opening within the bakehouse.
Any person who lets or suffers to be occupied, or who occupies
any room or place as a bakehouse in contravention
of this section, shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding five shillings for every day during
which any room or place is so occupied after a conviction
under this section.
"16. (Penalty for bakehouse being unfit on sanitary
grounds for use as a bakehouse.)—Where a Court of
Summary Jurisdiction is satisfied on the prosecution of an
Inspector or a Local Authority, that any room or place
used as a bakehouse (whether the same was or was not so
used before the passing of this Act) is in such a state as
to be on sanitary grounds unfit for use or occupation as a
bakehouse, the occupier of the bakehouse shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings,
and on a second or any subsequent conviction, to a fine not
exceeding five pounds.
"The Court of Summary Jurisdiction in addition to or
instead of inflicting such fine may order means to be
adopted by the occupier within the time named in the
order, for the purpose of removing the ground of complaint.
The Court may upon application enlarge the time so
named, but if, after the expiration of the time as originally
named or enlarged by subsequent order, the order is not
complied with, the occupier shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding one pound for every day that such non-compliance
continues.