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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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 water-closet, earth-closet, privy or ashpit within or communicating directly with
a Bakehouse;
The supply of water to a Bakehouse from a cistern also supplying a water-closet;
A drain or pipe carrying off fæcal or sewage matter having an opening within
the Bakehouse;
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.
Section 16 of the same Act provides that where any room or place used as a Bakehouse
is in such a state as to be on sanitary grounds unfit for use or occupation as a Bakehouse,
the occupier of such Bakehouse shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding
Forty Shillings, and on a second or any subsequent conviction not exceeding Five Pounds.
' Every person refusing or failing to allow the Sanitary Authority or their Officer to
enter any premises is liable to a fine of Five Pounds.
By Order,
JAMES J. STOKES,
July, 1894. Clerk to the Vestry.
On 5th February, 1895, the Vestry made the following By-laws under sec. 94 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, re houses let in lodgings. and instructed the Clerk to
take the necessary steps to get them confirmed by the Local Government Board:-