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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Metropolis. Regulations as to Houses Let in
Lodgings.
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.,
29th December, 1883.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board
to state that they have deemed it desirable to declare
the enactments in Section 35 of the Sanitary Act,
1866, and Section 47 of the Sanitary Law Amendment
Act, 1874, to be in force in each of the parishes
and districts in the Metropolis in which those provisions
are not now in operation,
The necessary notice was published in the
London Gazette of the 28th instant, and a copy of
the notice is enclosed.
The effect of the publication of this notice, so
far as regards the Parish of Camberwell, is that the
Vestry are now empowered to make regulations,
subject to the confirmation of the Board, with respect
to houses which are let in lodgings, or occupied by
members of more than one family.
The matters for which under Section 35 of the
Sanitary Act, 1866, regulations may be made, are
as follows:—