Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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The keeper of a registered house shall cause every room therein, and the
passages and staircases thereof, to be thoroughly ventilated daily to the
satisfaction of the Inspector.
WASH-HOUSE, CELLAR, YARD, AND AREA.
10. The owner of a registered house shall cause every wash-house, cellar,
yard and area thereof to be properly paved and drained to the satisfaction
of the Vestry, and shall lime-whiten the walls of the wash-house,
cellar, yard and area, when necessary, or when and as required by
the Inspector.
The keeper of a registered house shall cause every wash-house, cellar, yard
and area to be properly swept and thoroughly cleansed when necessary,
or when required by the Inspector, and shall not allow any accumulation
of rags, bones or other offensive refuse, or the accumulation of
any matter or thing so as to interfere with the good Sanitary condition
of the premises, or with the proper lighting and ventilation of
the house.
DUTIES OF LODGERS.
11. Every lodger in a registered house shall comply with the regulations
numbered 2, 3, 8, and 9, so far as they relate to cubic space, to
separation of the sexes, and to cleansing and ventilation of rooms under
his control: and every lodger having the exclusive use of a water-closet,
a water cistern, an ash-pit, a wash-house, a cellar, a yard or an area,
shall comply with the regulations numbered 5, 6, 7 and 10 so far as
they relate to the keeping clean and wholesome of such water closet,
water cistern, ash-pit, wash-house, cellar, yard or area.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
12. The keeper of a registered house shall give immediate notice in writing
to the Medical Officer of Health, or to the Inspector, and verbal notice
to every lodger, when anyone therein is ill or dead of small-pox, typhus,
typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, or any other dangerously
infectious or contagious disease, and he shall carry out without delay
all measures for disinfection which the Medical Officer or the Inspector
may direct.
Every lodger in a registered house shall give immediate notice in writing to
the keeper and to the Medieal Officer of Health, or to the Inspector
when anyone is ill or dead of small-pox, typhus, typhoid fever, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, cholera, or any other dangerously infectious or contagious
disease in any room occupied by him, and he shall carry out
without delay all measures for disinfection which the Medical Officer
or the Inspector may direct.