Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-12-22

No. IS.
Two shifts. Employs 3 white, 2
colored. Size OF bakery 25x50, IL
pitch. Light and ventilation bad:
floors covered with dirt. dough and
tobacco juice: appliances all in an I'm.
rardonably filthy condition, while
fruit baskets were found stored away
unwashed under tat!es.
No. 81.
Two shifts. Employs white,
colored. Size Of bakery 30X3O. IL
pitch. Light and ventilation fair;
clothing Of operatives clean. and APP
pliances. with the exception Of bread
pans, clean.
Employs IL white and colored. Size
of bakery S0x100. a pitch. Light and
ventilation ample. appliance modern
and kept in perfec' order: floors, walls
and everything neat and clean; an
ideal plant.
No. SO.
EMPLOYS 3 white. Size OF bakery
l5x4O, 10 pitch. Light and ventilation
COOL; everything about premises sanf-
tary.
Employs 4 white. Size of bakery
50xSO. II pitch. I.igh: and ventila-
ton bad: appliance filthy to the last
degree: floors covered with dirt and
refuse: papers and egg shells scatter
ed everywhere; dogs housed and OLD
harness stored in baking room: In
fine. this plant should be cleansed or
suppressed. as in IS present form it
81
No. ~.
Employ whit. | colorpd. Size
OF bakery 25x3O. 20 pitch. Light and
ventilation insufficient; appliances
filthy to the last degree. nothing clean
about the place: Stops aud fruit par
ings are indiscriniSately dumped into
the yard adjoining the bake shop.
This paint, like some others reported.
should receive attention at the hands
OF the authOritie&
No. az.
Employs 140 white. s colored. Size
Of bakery 40x1Sn. 20 pitch. Light and
ventilation ample: appliances ard
operatives scrupulously neat and
clean: a modern and a model plant.
No 43.
Employs 90 white. IS colored. Size
OF bakery. 125x13o. 90 pitch. Light
and ventilation fair: unsanitarv con
ditiOns noted; floors. location of toilet
rooms and genera conditions make
this plant one needing change in it's
operation.
No. ~.
Employ l white. Size OF bakery
c5x5O. 10 pitch Light and venti'a-
ton good everything about the prem
Uses neat and clean.
No. as.
Two shifts. Employs 3 white. ?
colored. Size of bakery 15x2O. ~
pitch. Utensils clean and neat.
No. IS.
Employs white. colored. The
help. the apparatus. and general condi>
ton Of the plant appears inexcrsable:
the floors are Uttered. the appliances
not clean and general air Of un-
tidiness pervades.
Employs 2 white, l co!ored. Light
and ventilation good; everything
about the premises neat and clean.
No. 4s.
Two shifts. Employs white. col
ored Light and ventilation bad:
general condition Of appliances had.
Employ 2 white. Size Of bakery
12xl6. 8 pitch (CellarD Light and
ventilation inadequate: and unhearable
odor pervade the plant.
The conditions Of manv or the ce'-
lar bakeries is deplorable and should
be corrected along the line OF the
Connecticut law bearing on the sub
ject, which has largely abated the
objectionable plants: said law in sub
stance is as follows:
SECTION |. Every building or
room occupied as bakery shall be
drained and plumbed in a manner
conducive to its healthful and sani-
tary condition. and constructed with
air shafts and windows. or venti!ating
pipes. sufficient 70 insure ventilation.
as the inspector shall direct. Every
bakery shall be provided with a wash
room and water closet apart from the
bake room ana rooms where the manu-
featuring Of such food products is con-
Quoted: no water closet. earth closet.
privy, or ash pit shall be within or
communicate directly with tnkc
shop. Rooms used for the manufac-
ture Of -four or meal food shall he
AZ least eight feet in height:r side
walls nf such rooms shall be p'astered
or wainscoted The ceiling p'astered or
ceilei with lumber or metals. and II
required by the inspector. shall he
whitewashed at least once. IN three
months; tn" furniture. utensils. and
floor Of such rooms shall he kept in
hearhfui sanitary condition. The
manufactured -four or meal food pro
ducts shall be- kept in dry. clean and
airy rooms The sleeping places for
persons employed In a bakery shall