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 Chiswick]
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five shillings for every day during which any room or place is
so occupied after a conviction under this section.
Section 16.
Where a Court of Summary Jurisdiction is satisfied on the
prosecution of an Inspector or 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 subsequent conviction, not exceeding five pounds.
For the purposes of the 17th secftion of this Act, the Medical
Officer of Health of the Local Authority shall have and exercise
all such powers of entry, inspection, taking legal proceedings
and otherwise, as an Inspector under the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1878.
Section 34 (1878 Act).
Where a bakehouse is situate in any city, town, or place
containing, according to the last published census for the time
being, a population of more than five thousand persons, all the
inside walls of the room of such bakehouse, and all the ceilings
or tops of such rooms (whether such walls, ceilings, or tops be
plastered or not) and all the passages and staircases of such
bakehouse, shall either be painted with oil, or varnished, or be
limewashed, or be partly painted or varnished, and partly limewashed
:
Where painted with oil or varnished, there shall be three
coats of paint or varnish, and the paint or varnish shall be
renewed once at least in every seven years, and shall be washed
with hot water and soap once at least in every six months ; where
limewased, the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in
every six months.
A bakehouse in which there is any contravention of this
section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this
Aa.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE REGULATIONS.
1. Every occupier of a slaughterhouse shall, at all reasonable
times, afford free access to every part of the premises to the