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

  • Waldo, Frederick Joseph, 1852-
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    PREFACE. The bakehouse question has been long before the British public. Thirty-one years ago its solution was attempted by a special Act, and since then various efforts have been made to deal with the matter by legislation. At the end of 1889, the Lancet issued a special report of four articles which described bakeries in this and in other countries. Although a great improvement has been effected since the year 1863, there is still need for immediate and radical reform, not less in the interests of the maker than of the consumer of this important food-stuff! Within the last three years the attention of the public has been once again pointedly drawn to the bad conditions under which the main part of their bread-supply is pro- duced. We, the present writers, were in the first place interested in that inquiry because it affected the health of a large section of the community, namely, the journeymen bakers. Before long, however, it became evident that other and far wider interests were involved, bv reason of the possible spread of disease germs in bread sent out