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INSPECTION OF BAKEHOUSES.
The Factory and Workshop Act, 1883, having transferred
to the Local Sanitary Authority the duty of inspecting
retail bakehouses, the following abstract of the requirements
of the law with regard to the cleanliness, ventilation, overcrowding,
and sanitary condition of retail bakehouses, is given
for the information of parishioners:—
1. A bakehouses to be in conformity with the Acts relating to retail
bakehouses, is subject to the following requirements
(а) It must be kept in a cleanly state, and free from effulvia
arising from any drain, privy or other nuisace.
(b) It must not be so overcrowded while work is carried on
then in as to be injurious to the health of the persons
employed, and shall be ventilated in such a manner as
to render harmless, so far as practicable, all the gases,
vapours, dust, or other impurities generated in the
course of the manufacturing process that may be injuious
to health.
(c) The ceilings or tops of the bakehouse and all passages and
staircases must either be painted with oil, or varnished,
or limewashed, or partly painted or vanished. and partly
limewashed. If painted at varnished. the surface must
be covered with three coats of paint or vanish, and
renewed once at least in every seven years, and washed
with hot water and soap once it last in every six
months. Limewashing is to be renewed once at least in
every six months.
'J. No place on the same level with the bakehouse Bad forming
part of the same building may be used as a sleeeping,
unlees it is effectually separated from the bakehouse by a
partition extending from the floor to the ceiling, and has an
external glazed window of at least mine superficial feet in
area, of which at least four and a half feet are made to open
for ventilalion.
3 A bakehouse must not be in soeh a slate as to be sanitary
grounds unfit for use or occupation as a hakeh uuse