Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1896
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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 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 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 knowingly cause or