London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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City of London 1895

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1895

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(d) For enforcing drainage for such houses,
and for promoting cleanliness and ventilation
in such houses.
(e) For the cleansing and lime-washing at
stated times of the premises.
(f) For the taking of precautions in case of
any infectious disease.
3. The landlord of a lodging-house or a
lodger therein shall not knowingly cause or
suffer a greater number of persons than will
admit of the provision of three hundred and
fifty cubic feet of free air space for each person
of an age exceeding ten years, and of one
hundred and seventy-five cubic feet of fresh 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 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.