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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their operation notwithstanding change of landlord or
change of occupier, and until it has been removed from
the register.
4. 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.
(A) Regulations to be Observed by the Person
Letting Lodgings.
5. 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 ten years of age may be reckoned as one
person.