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St Giles (Camden) 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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pans are to be scrubbed clean at frequent intervals, and the
closet flushed daily.
5.—The stairs, passages, and balconies are to be swept daily during
the week, and washed on the Saturday by the Tenants of
each floor in the order of the numbers of the rooms.
Children are not to be allowed to loiter or to make a noise on
the roof, stairs, or balconies. The door leading to the roof
to be constantly closed. Clothes-lines are to be removed
when not in actual use. The balconies must not be used for
drying, or hanging out clothes or other articles, or for shaking
carpets; nor must any article be thrown out into the
yards.
6.—The Company reserve the right by their managers or workmen
to enter and inspect the state of repair of every dwelling at
all reasonable hours of the day, and to remove any fixtures
therefrom for repair or otherwise.
7.—No Tenant will be permitted to under-let any room in his
occupation, or take in any lodger, unless he shall first obtain
the permission of the Manager in writing.
8.—Stoppages of dust-shoots, or waste-pipes, or any defect in the
water-closets, water-pipes, or taps, should be immediately
reported to the Manager, to whom also complaints of the nonobservance
of these rules should be made.
9.—Any Tenant who shall neglect to pay his rent with punctuality,
or who shall damage or misuse rooms or fittings, or improperly
occupy any tenement, or cause discomfort or inconvenience to
his neighbours, will be liable to immediate expulsion from his
occupancy.
10.—Notice to quit must be given to the Manager at least a week
before it is intended to terminate the tenancy.
Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
The seven principal zymotic diseases are small-pox,
measles, scarlet-fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough, fever
(includes enteric or typhoid, typhus, simple continued, and
relapsing forms of fever) and diarrhoea (includes cholera).
These diseases are considered to be more or less of a
preventable character.