Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report by the Medical Officer of Health upon bye-laws for houses let in lodgings or tenement-houses
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V entilation.
10.—The Landlord of a Registered-House
shall provide every
habitable room and every passage
and staircase thereof with means for
enabling the Tenants to have and
maintain proper ventilation, and
shall keep the same in proper
condition.
Cleansing.
11.—A Tenant of a Registered
House shall keep every room thereof
occupied by such Tenant in a cleanly
and wholesome condition.
Every landing, passage, and staircase,
and every court, yard, area, or
other open space within the curtilage
of a Registered-House, shall be kept
in a cleanly and wholesome condition.
Where one Tenant is entitled to the
exclusive use of any or either of the
before-mentioned places or appurtenances,
the Tenant shall cause the
cleansing to be done as often as may
be requisite.
Where two or more Tenants are
entitled to the use in common of any
or either of the before-mentioned
places or appurtenances, the Landlord
shall cause the cleansing to be
done as often as may be requisite.
12.—No Tenant shall keep any
animal in any room of a Registered
House or elsewhere upon the
premises, in such a manner as to
render the condition of such room
or premises filthy.
13.—The Landlord of a Registered
House shall, once in every year,
cause every part of such house and
premises, including the cellars and
yards thereof, to be cleansed.
10.— "Proper ventilation" and
"proper condition" require defining.
12.—Animals are provided for in
the nuisance section, 2 (1), [c] of
the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, which applies to all dwellinghouses
and other places.