London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1894
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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to occupy, at any one time, as a sleeping
apartment, a room which is used exclusively
for that purpose, and which is under the
control of such landlord, or which has been let
to or is occupied by such lodger, respectively,
as the case may be.
4. The landlord of a lodging-house, or a
lodger therein, shall not cause or suffer a
greater number of persons than will admit of
the provision of four hundred and fifty cubic
feet of free air space for each person of an age
exceeding ten years, and of two hundred and
twenty-five cubic feet of free air space for each
person of an age not exceeding ten years, to
occupy, at any one time, as a sleeping apartment,
a room which is not used exclusively
for that purpose, and which is under the
control of such landlord, or which has been let
to or is occupied by such lodger respectively,
as the case may be, and no landlord of any
such lodging-house shall allow any room
therein to be used for living by day or sleeping
by night unless such room has a mean height
of not less than eight feet.