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St Giles (Camberwell) 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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9th. The Keeper of a Registered Lodging-house shall
cause every part of the structure of every ashpit or dust
bin belonging to such house to be maintained at all times
in good order.
10th. No person shall keep any animal in any Registered
Lodging-house so as to render the premises filthy or unwholesome.
11th. A Keeper of a Registered Lodging-house shall not
cause or suffer any matter or thing to accumulate on the
premises so as to render any part thereof filthy or unwholesome.
12th. The Keeper of a Registered Lodging-house, and
every Lodger therein, shall, for the purposes of inspection
afford to the Medical Officer of Health free entrance at all
times to every room of every such house; and to the Sanitary
Inspector, or other authorised officer of the Vestry, free
entrance between the hours of Eight o'clock in the forenoon
and Ten o'clock in the afternoon on his application, and
between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. only on presenting
a written order signed by the Medical Officer of Health.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY OWNERS.
13th. The Owner of a Registered Lodging-house shall
cause the walls and ceilings of every room, staircase, and
passage, and the walls of areas or yards, to be thoroughly
cleansed, and well and sufficiently lime-whited once at least
in the month of April or in the month of May in every
year, and at such other times as may be necessary, provided
that the foregoing requirement with respect to lime-whiting