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St Giles (Camden) 1866
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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THE
BOARD OF WORKS
FOR THE
Saint Giles’s District.
Regulations under" Sanitary Act, 1866," as to
LODGING- HOUSES situate within the
above District.
1.—No person shall let any house, or part of a house
in lodgings, or to be occupied in lodgings, by members
of more than one family, and in which more than two
persons shall sleep in one room, until such house, and the
person proposing to let the same, is registered at the
Office of the Board of Works. The person so registered
shall be responsible for the observance of the following
Regulations until he shall give notice in writing to the
said Board at their office that he has ceased to be
tenant of the said house, or part of a house. No person
shall be entitled to be so registered unless he shall satisfy
the said Board that he is the bona fide Owner or Tenant