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City of London 1865

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or vegetables shall be kept in any of the bedrooms
or sleeping apartments, or in any area, cellar, loft,
or yard of any house or part of a house let in
lodgings or occupied by members of more than
one family, if such animals or birds, or meat, fruit,
or vegetables shall be deemed by the Commissioners
of Sewers of the City of London, or their Medical
Officer of Health, to be likely to cause any
nuisance, or to be injurious to health.
REGULATION VIII.
Every room, staircase, and passage, of every
house and part of a house let in lodgings or occupied
by members of more than one family, shall be
duly ventilated, and so kept and continued to the
satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health of the
City of London; such ventilation, in the case of a
room, to be either by a window and open fire-place,
or by an aperture of the area of one square foot
opening into the passage or on the stairs, or where
there is a free circulation of air; and that the
windows be in a condition to be opened, and in
proper repair.
REGULATION IX.
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No room of any house or part of a house let in