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 Camberwell]
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Regulations to be Observed by the Person
Letting Lodgings.
3. The minimum space for each inmate of a
room, used exclusively as a bed room, shall be 300
cubic feet; and the minimum space for each inmate
of a room used both as a bed room and as a sitting
room, shall be 350 cubic feet. Two children under
10 years of age may be reckoned as one person.
4. Not more than two persons of opposite
sexes, if above the age of ten, shall occupy the same
sleeping room.
5. The person letting in lodgings, the house,
or part of a house, shall be supplied with a ticket
(according to the Form B. in the Schedule), stating
the number of persons allowed to sleep in each room,
which ticket he will be required to produce, whenever
it may be asked for by the Medical Officer,
Sanitary Inspector, or other authorised officer of the
Vestry, and he shall be supplied with a ticket (according
to the Form C in the Schedule) for each room, stating
the number of persons allowed to sleep therein, which
shall be put up in a conspicuous place in the room, and
shall be kept at all times visible and legible.
6. The person letting in lodgings, the house,
or part of a house, shall, when any one in them is ill