Bakehouses in Finsbury : a special report under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, Sections 97-102 / by George Newman.
- Finsbury (London, England). Public Health Committee.
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Bakehouses in Finsbury : a special report under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, Sections 97-102 / by George Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![CHAPTER I. BAKEHOUSE LEGISLATION. By the Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863, Bakehouses were first brouglit under some measure of sanitary control of Local Authorities. This Act contained sections dealing with four chief points—namely («) that no person under 18 years of age should be allowed to work by night in a Bakehouse ; (h) that the walls, ceilings, passages and staircase should be painted once every seven years, and cleaned once every six months, or white- washed every six months ; (r,-) cleanliness, effectual ventilation, and freedom from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance ; and (cl) that no place on the same level as a Bakehouse may be used as a sleeping place unless effectually separated.* Such were the general principles of the Bakehouse legislation forty years ago. In 1878 a factory and Workslioj) Act came into force, which incoiporated the above ])rincij)les, but took the control of the Bakehouses away from the Sanitary Authorities and vested it in the Home Office, handing’ over the inspection to the factory insjiectors.f I his was found in practice to ivork much le£s effectually than the method of local control authorised in the Regulation Act of 1863. Accordingly in 1883 the Government passed another Act,| which transferred the enforcement of the law respecting retail bakehouses to the Local Authorities of the district in which the Bakehouse is situate. This Act further ° Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863, Sections 3—6. t Factory <£• Workshop Act, 1878, Sections 3, 33, 34 and 35. ; Factory <& Workshop Act, 1883, Sections 15—18.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22401192_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
