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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
and that, if the occupier of the room after notice of an order
has been served upon him fails to comply with the order, an
order to comply therewith may, on summary conviction, he
made against him.
"Now therefore we, the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth being the
local authority for the said Metropolitan Borough, hereby
prescribe the following Regulations with which a room
habitually used as a sleeping place, the surface of the floor
of which is more than three feet below the surface of the part
•of the street adjoining or nearest to the room, shall comply,
namely: —
" (a) Such room shall in every part thereof have at
least three feet of its height above the level of the surface
of the street or ground adjoining, or nearest to such room.
Provided that if the width of the area hereinafter mentioned
is not less than the height of the room from the floor to
the said surface, or is not less than six feet, the height of
the room above such surface may be less than three feet
but not in any case less than one foot.
" (b) Every wall of such room shall be constructed
with a proper horizontal damp-proof course, and, if in
contact with the soil, shall be effectually protected against
dampness from that soil by means of a vertical dampproof
course, or otherwise.
" (c) There shall be outside of and adjoining such room
and extending along the entire frontage thereof and open
upwards from six irche? below the level of the floor thereof
an area properly paved and effectually drained and at
least four feet wide in every part ; provided that the width
of such area may be not less in an\T part than three feet,
if the mean width of the area be not less than four feet ;
provided also that in the area there may be placed steps
necessary for access to the room, and over and across
such area there may be steps necessary for access to any
buildings above the room, if the steps are so placed in
such case as not to be over or across any external window
of the room.