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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Giles (Camberwell) 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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cubic feet of free air space for each person of an age
exceeding ten years, and of one hundred and fifty
cubic feet of free air space for each person of an age
not exceeding ten years to occupy, at any one time,
as a sleeping apartment, a room which is used exclusively
for that purpose.
4. The landlord of a lodging-house shall not
knowingly cause or suffer a greater number of persons
than will admit of the provision of four hundred
cubic feet of free air space for each person of an age
exceeding ten years, and of two hundred cubic feet
of free air space for each person of an age not exceeding
ten years to occupy, at any one time, as a
sleeping apartment, a room which is not used
exclusively for that purpose.
5. A lodger in a lodging-house, shall not
knowingly cause or suffer a greater number of persons
than will admit of the provision of three hundred
cubic feet of free air space for each person of an age
exceeding ten years, and of one hundred and fifty cubic
feet of free air space for each person of an age not
exceeding ten years to occupy, at any one time, as a
sleeping apartment, a room which is used exclusively
for that purpose, and which has been let to such
lodger.
6. A lodger in a lodging-house shall not