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St Giles (Camberwell) 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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bin may be provided in common for two or more
contiguous houses.
Regulations affecting both Person Letting
Lodgings and Landlord.
16. Whenever the Vestry shall require it, any
registered letter of lodgings, or any registered landlord
of a lodging-house, whose dwelling house is
not near to the house, or houses, of which he is the
registered letter or landlord, shall appoint as his
agent some person resident in or near such house or
houses, to see that the foregoing Regulations (as far
as they relate to his duties as letter of lodgings or
landlord) are strictly carried out in regard to such
house or houses. But the registered person shall
be responsible for any act or default of his agent in
the execution of these Regulations.
17. Any registered person who shall violate
or fail to carry out any of the above Regulations
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty
Shilling for any one offence, and to an additional
penalty not exceeding Twenty Shillings for every
day during which a default in obeying such Regulations
shall continue.