The law relating to public health : being the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and Amending Acts of 1871, 1875, and 1882 : annotated with special reference to the changes introduced by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, with numerous decisions, Scotch and English, a copious index, and appendices containing practical forms and relative statutes / by J. Eaton Dykes and Dudley Stuart.
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The law relating to public health : being the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and Amending Acts of 1871, 1875, and 1882 : annotated with special reference to the changes introduced by the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, with numerous decisions, Scotch and English, a copious index, and appendices containing practical forms and relative statutes / by J. Eaton Dykes and Dudley Stuart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![46 & 47 VICTOEIiE, c. 53. An Act to amend the law relating to certain Factories and Workshops.—[2oth August, 1883.] Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and witb the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority CO 1 io of the same, as follows,— §8 l-lo* Short titieT 1. This Act may be cited as the Factory and Workshop Act,. 1883. * * * * Regulations for new bakehouses. Penalty for bakehouse heing unfit on sanitary grounds for use as a bakehouse. Bakehouses. 15. It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied as a bake- house, or to occupy as a bakehouse, any room or place which was not so let or occupied before the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, unless the following regulations are bomplied with,— (i.) No watercloset, earthcloset, privy, or ashpit shall be withm or communicate directly with the bakehouse ; (IL) Any cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse shall be separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying water to a watercloset; (iii.) No drain or pipe for carrying off fcecal or sewage matter shall have an opening within the bakehouse. Any person who lets or suffers to be occupied or who occupies any room or place as a bakehouse in contravention of this section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding torty shillings, and to a further fine not exceeding five shillings for every day during which any room or place is so occupied after a conviction nnder this section. 16 Where a court of summary jurisdiction is satisfied on the prosecution of an inspector or a local authority that /^^^^ «J nlace used as a bakehouse (whether the same was or was not so used Sore the pLsing of this let) is in such a state as to be on samtary grounds nriit for use or occupation as a ^^kehouse the occup^^^^^^^ the bakehouse shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21920576_0230.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
