The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-07-21
BAKE SHOPS ARE UNClEAN.
Commissioner William BIackman Dis
covers They Are Unhealthy.

Seattle.-There are thirty bake
shops scattered over the City of Seat
tie and Labor Commissioner William
| Blackman has just made an inspec-
| ton of twenty-four of them as re-
CURED OF him by the bake shop law
passed by the last legislature.
Of the twenty he examined he
found not a single one that is entitled
| to the certificate of compliance with
| the new law which he is required to
| issue to bake shops which conform TIC
the law.
Two of them says the commits
sioner, need very slight Improvement
and are, you might say, in sanitary
condition. All the others will have to
| make alterations in ventilation, in
| their cleanliness or other particulars
prescribed by the law. The condi
| ton in some of the bake shops was
vile. | never realized until this trim
the necessity for such a law as that
| passed by the last legislature. But
the law should go further. 1t should
provide for a bake shop inspector
whose sole duty it should be to in
spect the bakeries of the state.
/
the bake shops of Seattle and then
did not visit six of them. These | will
visit next week. And this inspection
was only preliminary one. l. consist
ed mainly of leaving copies of the law
in each shop and of notifying the pro.
prietOrs that they would have to com
ply Herewith. | also promised them
that l would return in thirty days"
Mr.. Blackman declined to go into
details as to the bad condition of the
bake shops of Seattle. The shops
| have been given thirty days 10 bring
! themselves within the provisions OF
| the law and Mr.. Blackburn promises
| that if the same conditions exist at
the end of that time there will be
| something doing.
| These are the principal provisions
Of the law which it is evident from
Mr.. Blackburn's remarks the bake
| shops of Seattle are violating:
"All buildings or rooms occupied
as biscuit bread or cake bakeries
shall be drained or plumbed in a
manner conducive to the proper
| healthful and sanitary condition there,
| of, and constructed with air-shafts
and windows or ventilating pipes sui
! ficient to insure ventilation as the
commissioner of labor shall direct
and no cellar or basement not now
used as a bakery, and a cellar or
| basement heretofore occupied as a
bakery shall, when once closed, not
| be reOpened for use as a bakery.
Every such bakery shall be provid :
ed with a wash room and water
closet, or closets, apart from the bake
! rooms where the manufacture of such
| product is conducted; and no water
| closet, earth closet, privy or ash pit
| shall be within or communicate di-
dectly with a bake shop.
| Every room used for the manu-
| facture of flour or meal food shall be
at least eight feet in height. the side
walls Of such room shall be plastered
or wainscOted, the ceiling plastered
or ceiled with lumber or metal; the
furniture and utensils of such room
| shall be so arranged as to be easily
| moved in order that the furniture and
| floor may be at all times be kept in
proper healthful sanitary condition.
The manufactured flour or meal
food products shall be kept in per
fectly dry and airy rooms so arranged
that the floors, shelves and all other
! facilities for storing the same can be
easily and perfectly cleaned.
The sleeping places for persons
! employed in the bakery shall be kept
separate from the room or rooms
where flour or meal food products
are manufactured or stored"
There is also a provision against
employing persons afflicted with tu-
berculosis, scrofulOus diseases, We
neral diseases or communicable skin
affections or contagious disease.
The penalty for violation Of the act
is made a misdemeanOr, punishable
by fine or imprisonment.