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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REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY
KEEPERS AND LODGERS.
3rd. No Keeper or Lodger shall permit a room in a
Registered Lodging-house, used exclusively for sleeping, to
be occupied by any number of persons greater than will
afford a space of 300 cubic feet for each person.
No Keeper or Lodger shall permit a room in a Registered
Lodging-house, used both for sleeping and for other general
purposes of life, to be occupied by any number of persons
greater than will afford a space of 350 cubic feet for each
person. Two children under Ten years of age may be
reckoned as one person for the purposes of this regulation.
4th. The Keeper of a Registered Lodging-house, immediately
after he shall have been informed or shall have
ascertained that any person, in such house, is ill of a
dangerously infectious or contagious disease, shall give
notice thereof to every Lodger in such house; and every
Lodger in such house, who has ascertained or has reasonable
grounds for believing that any person in any room occupied
by him is ill of a dangerously infectious or contagious
disease, shall forthwith give notice thereof to the Keeper,
and to every other Lodger in such house.
5th. In every case where, in pursuance of the Statutory
provision in that behalf, an order of a Justice has been
obtained for the removal from a Registered Lodging-house
to a Hospital, or other place for the reception of the sick
of a person who is suffering from any dangerously infectious
disorder, and is without proper lodging or accommodation,