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 Rotherhithe]
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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; and
(b) Unless there be an external glazed window of at least nine superficial feet in
area, of which at least 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, vapours, dust or other impurities generated in the course of the work
carried on therein, 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.
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 Section 34 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1878, which provides for the sanitary condition and cleansing of the