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

  • Waldo, F. J.
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.

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    The bakehouse was approached by a long, narrow, dark, unventilated passage, oh which there were two living-rooms and a w.c. The bakehouse was entirely underground, and had one oven. To the latter there was only one damper, instead of two, which had the effect of filling the bakehouse with vitiated air and steam. Stretched across the bake- house there were five clothes-lines, on which he found the wearing apparel of the defendant and his family hung up to dry. On a small raised platform he found a mangle and a quantity of dirty clothes, by the side of which sacks of flour were stacked. The only daylight that could possibly reach the bakehouse was through a window, but the glass was broken, and the window covered and blocked by a sack. This window was only two feet above the street- level, and the bakehouse became the receptacle for the dust that blew about the street. The water used for making the bread was supplied from a tap, which was fixed over a small trap. In this trap he found a rolling- pin, which the defendant said he placed there to prevent an influx of sewage, which repeatedly came up into the bakehouse. The witness said the defendant had closed the premises, and the Yestry did not wish to press the matter unduly, and were willing, now that the object of the pro- ceedings had been accomplished, to ask for the costs only. These the defendant agreed to pay, and the matter dropped. Note.—In this case the bedroom occupied by the baker and his wife was separated from the bakehouse by a partition of match-boarding. Proceedings, therefore, could not be taken under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878. Neither could the occupant be proceeded against under section 96 of the Public Health (London) Act. His bedroom and that of his children opened the one into the other; but he had a shop and sitting-room on the ground-floor above, so that