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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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 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.
5. The landlord of a lodging-house, within
a period of fourteen days after he shall have
been required by a notice in writing, signed by
the Clerk to the Sanitary Authority and duly
served upon or delivered to such landlord,
to supply the information necessary for the
registration of such house by the Sanitary
Authority, shall, himself, or by his Agent duly
authorized in that behalf, sign and furnish to
the Sanitary Authority a true statement of the
following particulars with respect to such house;
that is to say:
(a) The total number of rooms in the
house;