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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lodger of any furniture, shall be such that
the amount accruing due in any term shall
be at the rate or in the proportion of not
less than per week.
For fixing the number of persons who may occupy
a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings
or occupied by members of more than one family:
For the registration of houses thus let or occupied
in lodgings:
For the inspection of such houses, and the keeping
the same in a cleanly and wholesome state:
For enforcing therein the provision of privy accommodation
and other appliances and means of
cleanliness in proportion to the number of lodgings
and occupiers, and the cleansing and ventilation
of the common passages and staircases:
For the cleansing and lime-whiting at stated times
of such premises; and
As to ventilation of rooms, and paving of premises;
and
As to notices to be given and precautions to be taken
in case of any dangerously infectious or contagious
disease.
3. The landlord of a lodging-house shall not
knowingly cause or suffer a greater number of persons
than will admit of the provision of three hundred