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St Giles (Camberwell) 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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6. Not more than two persons of opposite
sexes, if above the age of twelve, shall occupy the
same sleeping room.
7. 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.
8. The person letting in lodgings, the house,
or part of a house, shall, when any one therein is ill
or dead of small-pox, typhus, scarlet fever, diptheria,
typhoid or enteric fever, cholera, or any other dangerous
infectious disease, give immediate notice to the
Medical Officer of Health, at the Vestry Hall, and
shall carry out without delay any measures for disinfection
which the Medical Officer or Sanitary
Inspector may direct. He shall further assist in the
removal (if such removal be certified as necessary by
the Medical Officer of Health) of such patient to
the ambulance or other vehicle provided for the patient's
removal to hospital. Also he shall cause the corpse of
any such person to be removed without delay to the public
mortuary.