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St Giles (Camberwell) 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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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, and which has been let to such
lodger.
7. The landlord of a lodging-house, within a
period of after he shall have
been required by a notice in writing, signed by the
Clerk to the Nuisance Authority, and duly served
upon or delivered to such landlord, to supply the
information necessary for the registration of such
house by the Nuisance Authority, shall personally,
or by his agent duly authorised in that behalf, attend
at the office of the Nuisance Authority during office
hours, and then and there furnish and sign a true
statement of the following particulars with respect to
such house; that is to say,—
(a.) The total number of rooms in the house:
(b.) The total number of rooms let in lodgings
or occupied by members of more than one
family:
(c.) The manner of use of each room: