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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
Chelsea 1952
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1952
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In the above Table rooms have been divided into the following
categories:-
A. Basement rooms not being underground rooms.
UNDERGROUND ROOMS
B, Fit for human habitation, i.e. comply with
Underground Room regulations.
C. Unfit - compliance with regulations could
be effected at reasonable cost.
D. Unfit - compliance with regulations could
be effected, but at unreasonable cost.
E. Unfit - Could not be made to comply with
regulations.
F. Unfit - Although structural considerations
would make compliance in all respects
impossible, they could nevertheless, be
made to satisfy essential requirements.