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 St. Giles District]
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THE
BOARD OF WORKS
FOR THE
Saint Files Distort.
Regulations under “Sanitary Act, 1866," as to
Ordinary LODGING HOUSES situate
within the above District.
1.—No person shall let a house, or any part of
a house in lodgings, to be occupied 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, have been
registered at the Office of the Board of Works. 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 of the house or part of a house so to
be registered, and that the said house or part of a house
is furnished with all the conveniences required by the