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 Hackney]
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(e) Where the rent or charge payable by each lodger occupying
two or more rooms, and inclusive of any charge for the use
by the lodger of any furniture is at the rate of not less than
ten shillings per week.
(a) For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house or part
of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more
than one family.
(b) For the registration of houses so let or occupied.
(c) For the inspection of such houses.
(d) For enforcing drainage for such houses, and for promoting
cleanliness and ventilation in such houses.
(e) For the cleansing and lime-washing at stated times of the premises.
(f) For the taking of precautions in case of any infectious disease.
3. A lodger in a lodging-house and subject to the provisions of
these by-laws, the landlord and tenant of the lodging-house 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 any one time, as a sleeping
apartment, a room which is used exclusively for that purpose,
and which, in the case of the lodger, has been let to that lodger.
4. A lodger in a lodging-house and subject to the provisions of
these by-laws, the landlord and tenant of the lodging-house 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, in
the case of the lodger, has been let to that lodger.