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38 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Regulations for Bakehouses.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, and Factory and Workshop Amendment Act, 188???
1st.—All the inside walls of the rooms of such Bakehouse, and all the ceiln???
or tops of such rooms (whether such walls, ceilings or tops be plastered or not) a
all the passages and staircases of such bakehouse shall either be painted with oil
varnished, or be limewashed, or be partly painted or varnished, and partly liu???
washed; where painted with oil or varnished, there shall be three coats of paint
varnish, and the paint or varnish shall be renewed once at least in every seven year
and shall be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six month
where limewashed, the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in every ???
months.
A Bakehouse in which there is any contravention of this section shall
deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act.
2nd.—A place on the same level with a bakehouse, and forming part of the
same building, shall not be used as a sleeping place unless it is constructed as following
that is to say, unless it is effectually separated from an external glazed window of
least nine superficial feet in area, of which at least four and a half superficial feet a
made to open for ventilation. Any person who lets or occupies, or continues to
or knowingly suffers to be occupied, any place contrary to this section, shall be library
to a fine not exceeding for the first offence, twenty shillings, and for every subseque
offence five pounds. I
The Factory 3rd.—It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied as
and Bakehouse, or to occupy as a Bakehouse, any room or place which
Workshop was not so let or occupied before the 1st June, 1883, unless the following
Act, 1883. Regulations are complied with:—
(a) No water closet, earth closet, privy or ashpit shall be with:
or communicate directly with the Bakehouse.
(b) Any cistern for supplying water to the Bakehouse shall be
separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water to a wate
closet.
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off fæcal or sewage matter sha
have an opening within the Bakehouse.
4th.—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 sanitar
grounds, unfit for use or occupation as a Bakehouse, the occupier of the Bakehouse
shall be liable to a fine of forty shillings, and on a second or any subsequent convi???
tion, five pounds.
5th.—Every person refusing or failing to allow the Sanitary Authority or their
Officer to enter any premises in pursuance of those provisions for the purpose of thi
section shall be subject to a fine of five pounds.
FREDK. J. WALDO, M.D., D.P.H.
Medical Officer of Health.
N.B.—The Medical Officer of Health requests that the cleansing shall take place in
April and October of each year.