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St Giles (Camden) 1897

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

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3. No tenant shall underlet or take in lodgers, or use
a tenement as a shop or a workshop, or expose any goods
or materials for sale or hire therein, nor assign this
agreement.
4. The stairs and landing shall be swept daily, and
washed every Saturday, by the tenants in turn, in the order
directed by the Valuer of the Council.
5. Tenants shall sweep all the floors of their tenements
regularly and wash them once a week, and generally keep
their tenements in a clean and wholesome condition.
6. Tenants shall not hang up in the staircase or from
their windows or in any way expose to public view any
washing or any unsightly objects whatever.
7. Carpets, mats &c., must be beaten or shaken before
10 o'clock in the morning, and must not be beaten or shaken
at any time in the buildings.
8. Refuse must not be thrown from the windows or
doors but must be deposited in a pail, which will be supplied
for the purpose. The pails must be emptied daily by the
tenants into the bins in the yard.
9. Tenants must pay the cost of replacing any windows
broken in their tenements during their tenancy, and of any
damage to the rooms other than ordinary wear and tear.
10. Tenants are to clean their windows at least once a
week.
11. Tenants shall immediately report to the Valuer,
through the Superintendent, any birth, case of infectious
disease, or death in their tenements. Tenants shall cause