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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SUGGESTED REGULATIONS
for
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
All Changes and Additions are printed in Italics.
1. Whenever the Medical Officer of Health shall
report to the Vestry or Sewers and Sanitary Committee,
that it is necessary to put these Regulations into
operation, in respect of any house, or part of a house,
which is let in lodgings, or occupied by members of
more than one family, notice shall be given in
writing (together with a copy of these Regulations) to
the person letting lodgings, and to the landlord
(Form A. in the Schedule), who shall be held responsible
for the due performance of their respective
duties, as hereinafter defined. And the Regulations
shall come into operation from the date of delivery of
such notice.
2. A register shall be kept at the Vesty Hall,
under the direction of the Medical Officer of Health,
of all houses, or parts of houses, which shall thus be
brought under the operation of these Regulations,
and of their several keepers or letters, and landlords.
3. A house, or part of a house, to which these
Regulations have once been applied, shall remain under