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Southwark 1935

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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painted; ventilation—windows, airbricks and bottom of door to yard;
contains 2 metal washing troughs, fitted with steam pipes and main water
supply; steam boiler (30 lbs. per sq. in. working pressure). Rooms 2
and 3—Wooden floors taken up and concrete floors laid; walls rendered,
woodwork painted; ventilation—airbricks, fanlight and windows.
Room 2 contains 2 sterilizing chests (metal), 4ft. by 3ft. by 6ft. high.
Room 3—A 6-syphon bottle filler, bench and capping appliance, etc.
62, Beckway Street.—Provided a new cold store (Thompson, Houston,
Ltd.), electric.
16, Pilgrimage Street.—Provided a new cold store.
105, Kennington Road.—A new dairy constructed in yard, 2 compartments;
walls, concrete blocks rendered both sides, concrete floor;
roof, asbestos; ceiling matchlined; all woodwork painted; well lighted
and ventilated. Contains in one compartment, steam generator, metal
washing trough and racks; in the other compartment—metal sterilizing
chest and bottle capper; bottles are left in chest till required, etc.
29, Southwark Street.—A new cold store provided (Frigidaire).
Rear 92, Thurlow Street.—A bottle capping appliance provided.
128-132, New Kent Road.—These premises have been converted into
a bakery, bakehouses on the ground and 1st floor. 1st and ground floor—
Bakehouses, walls and asbestos ceiling painted, floor concreted. 1st and
2nd floor—Storerooms, asbestos ceilings provided. Contains: Ground
floor—Men, 2 W.C.'s, 2 urinals, 2 lavatory basins; Women, 3 W.C.'s,
2 lavatory basins; a cleansing room for wooden crates and cake tins, a
large metal tank with hot and cold water supply for the purpose; middle
of floor used for stacking cakes, etc., ready for vans. In bakehouse—
3 cake mixers, 2 dough presses, 1 hot plate, 1 metal tank for washing
utensils (hot and cold water supply), 3 double-deck ovens and 2 peel ovens,
coke fuel, furnace fed at rear; numerous benches. 1st floor, around
stacking room, a gallery on which cakes are packed into boxes, some
icing done and 1 cake mixer. Off this gallery is the 1st floor bakehouse.
Contains: 2 ovens (gas-heated), travelling bed plates, 2 doughnut frying
pans, 2 meat cooking coppers, 1 dough roller and 1 dough divider, 2 marble
top benches and several wooden top benches, 3 dough presses, 3 cake
mixers, 1 lavatory basin, 1 cold plate table, etc. Also on this floor is a
cake storeroom (asbestos ceiling). On 2nd floor—Fruit and flour store
(asbestos ceiling), etc.
151, Borough High Street.—This underground bakehouse is being
overhauled. The walls of bakehouse scraped and faced with cement and
sand and rendered impervious. Floor concreted and tiled; other works
proceeding.