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Poplar 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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New Legislation.
During the year, the following Acts of Parliament, etc., have come
into operation:—
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1927.
London County Council (General Powers) Act. 1927.
Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1927.
Public Health (Condensed Milk) Amendment Regulations, 1927.
Public Health (Dried Milk) Amendment Regulations, 1927.
Bye-laws.
Consideration was given to the London County Council Draft
Revised Water Closet Bye-laws, and certain suggestions were submitted
to the London County Council upon these Bye-laws.
Regulations as to Underground Sleeping Rooms.
The Council's Revised Regulations for underground rooms habitually
used as sleeping places have been approved by the Minister of Health.
Lighting of Staircases in Tenement Buildings.
The provisions of the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1927, Section 61, come into operation on the 1st August, 1928.
The Section applies to a tenement building only, i.e., a building
constructed or reconstructed by way of conversion so as to comprise two
or more separate or self-contained flats or tenements intended or used
for occupation by the working classes; but does not include a house to
which Sections 6 and 7 of the Housing Act, 1925, apply, i.e., let in
lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family (for which
Bye-laws have been made).
The owner of every tenement building is required (a) Wherever
practicable, to provide every common staircase with adequate means of
lighting by natural light, including (in the case of a building constructed
or reconstructed after the commencement of the Act) a window or windows
or opening or openings on the staircase at each storey, opening directly
into the external air; and (b) to provide adequate means for the
artificial lighting of every common staircase, and to keep such means
efficient and lighted daily from one hour after sunset until 11 o'clock