Bread, bakehouses, and bacteria : reprints of various papers / by F. J. Waldo and David Walsh.

  • Waldo, Frederick Joseph, 1852-
Date:
1895
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Credit: Bread, bakehouses, and bacteria : reprints of various papers / by F. J. Waldo and David Walsh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    use. The summons was issued under Section 16 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1883. The case came before Mr. Slade, magistrate, in the Southwark Police Court, and was, by consent, remanded by him. During the year 1893 the above premises were used as a bakery by another occupier, and bread and pastry baked therein by three men and two boys. Evidence by Dr. Waldo : Premises rented by agreement (three months) from the Corporation of the City of London. Visit paid with Mr. Edwards, Chief Sanitary Inspector, March 21, 1894. Descended stairs to cellar, varying from six and a half to seven feet in height. Topmost part of cellar unceiled and forming floor of shop above. Was able to look through cracks in same from below into shop. Floor of bakery dirty, with accumulations of rubbish near bottom of stairs and near oven. Floor composed of bricks and stone, and in parts of earth only. Walls, no damp- course, dirty and discoloured. Old-fashioned brick oven under footway. No ‘ sulphur flue ’ to furnace. Ventila- tion imperfect, opening level with footway, 4 ft. long and 16 in. high, half of which was covered up with a sack, remaining half glazed, but broken. At back part of cellar a hole 3 ft. by 2 ft. opened into a small back yard. Sacks in bakery contained flour and currants. Back-yard had w.c. 3 or 4 ft. from bakery: contained much decompos- ing and decomposed vegetable refuse. This bakehouse was old and dilapidated, and structurally unfitted for use as a bakehouse. It could not, in Dr. Waldo’s opinion, be rendered dangerless (a) to food-pro- ducers ; (6) to consumers. Occupier consented to disuse cellar for baking.
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