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 defendant said the closet was not his, but was used by the whole house. Mr. Bushby asked how long the nuisance had been existing. The sanitary inspector said he thought the defendant had been there three months. It was usual to visit bakehouses twice a year. Mr. Bushby thought a visit twice a week would better secure public protection. He remarked that he had never heard any- thing more horrible. It was a wonder the defendant was alive to tell the tale. The defendant said he was only a weekly tenant, and could not do the work. There was a tailor’s shop on the same floor as the bakehouse, and tailors’ workrooms on the third-floor of the house. The inspector said that the house was rated to a foreigner, and was rack- rented to various tenants. The defendant said he paid thirty-three shillings a week for the shop, bakehouse, and sleeping-room, and had paid the landlord thirty pounds to get possession. Mr. Bushby said the place had better be closed without delay. The inspector said it was necessary, as the filth was over his boot-tops. He would serve a notice on the owner to cleanse and purify, but also to remove the w.c., which was not allowed so near the bake- house. Mr. Bushby made an order to close the place forth- with under Section 5 (6) of the Public Health Act. Case G (Bermondsey).* Mr. E. H. Wood, Deputy Coroner, concluded a long inquiry at the Town Hall, Bermondsey, last night respect- ing the death of Henry Bortsh, aged twenty-eight years, a journeyman baker, of New Buildings, Fendall Street, Bermondsey.—Helen Bortsh, the widow, said that deceased was employed by a retail baker, of 49, Abbey Street, * From the Echo, August 22, 1894.