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Hackney 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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(f) For the taking of precautions in case of any infectious
disease.
3. The landlord of a lodging-house, or a lodger therein
shall not knowingly cause or suffer a greater number of persons
than will admit of the provision of three hundred cubic feet
of free air space for each person of an age exceeding ten years,
and of one hundred and fifty cubic feet of free air space for
each person of an age not exceeding ten years to occupy, at
anv one time, as a sleeping apartment, a room which is used
exclusively for that purpose, and which is under the control of
such landlord, or which has been let to such lodger respectively,
as the case may be.
4. The landlord of a lodging-house, or a lodger therein,
shall not knowingly cause or suffer a greater number of persons
than will admit of the provision of four hundred cubic
feet of free air space for each person of an age exceeding ten
years, and of two hundred cubic feet of free air space for each
person of an age not exceeding ten years to occupy, at any one
time, as a sleeping apartment, a room which is not used exclusively
for that purpose, and which is under the control of
such landlord, or which has been let to such lodger respectively,
as the case may be.
5. The landlord of a lodging-house, within a period of
fourteen days after he shall have been required by a notice
in writing, signed by the Clerk to the Sanitary Authority, and
dulv served upon or delivered to such landlord, to supply the
information necessary for the registration of such house by the
Sanitary Authority, shall , himself or by his agent, duly
authorised in that behalf, sign and furnish to the Sanitary
Authority a true statement of the following particulars with
respect to such house, that is to say: —
(a) The total number of rooms in the house.
(b) The total number of rooms let in lodgings or occupied
by members of more than one family.
(c) The manner of use of each room.
(d) The number, age, and sex of the occupants of each room
used for sleeping.
(e) The Christian name and surname of the lessee of each
room; and