Bakehouse. Any place in which are baked bread, biscuits, or confectionery from the baking or selling of which a profit is derived. ss. 97-102 of the consolidating (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), contain various sanitary provisions for the regulation of bakehouses, as defined above in Part II of Sched. VI of the Act. S. 98 enables a Court of Summary Jurisdiction to fine the occupiers of in sanitary bakehouses and to order them to remove the ground of complaint of an inspector or district council. Limewashing, painting or varnishing are prescribed by s. 99, sleeping-places must be specially constructed as required by s. 100. By s. 101 underground bake-houses may not be used without a district council certificate, and by s. 102 it is for the district council to enforce these provisions as to retail bakehouses.
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