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 Fulham]
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In every case where two or more lodgers in a registered
lodging-house are entitled to the use in common of any washhouse,
cellar, yard, or area belonging to such house, the keeper
shall cause every part of such wash-house, cellar, yard, or area
to be thoroughly cleansed from time to time, as often as may be
requisite, for the purpose of keeping the same in a clean and
wholesome condition.
In every case where a lodger in a registered lodging-house is
entitled to the exclusive use of any wash-house, cellar, yard, or
area belonging to such house, such lodger shall cause every part
of such wash-house, cellar, yard and area to be thoroughly
cleansed from time to time, as often as may be requisite, for the
purpose of keeping the same in a clean and wholesome condition.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
10. The keeper of a registered lodging-house shall give
immediate notice in writing to the Medical Officer of Health, and
the Inspector at the Office of the District Board, Broadway
House, Hammersmith, and either verbal or written notice to
every lodger, when anyone therein is ill or dead of small-pox,
typhus, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, or any
other dangerously infectious or contagious disease, and he shall
carry out without delay all measures for disinfection which the
Medical Officer of Health and the Inspector may direct, or allow
the officers of the Board to do so.
Every lodger in a registered lodging-house shall give immediate
notice in writing to the landlord, and to the Medical Officer
of Health and the Inspector, at the office of the District Board,
Broadway House, Hammersmith, when anyone is ill or dead of
small-pox, typhus, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera,
or any other dangerously infectious or contagious disease, occurring
in any room occupied by him, aud he shall carry out without
delay all measures for disinfection which the Medical Officer of
Health and the Inspector may direct, or allow the officers of the
Board to do so.
ANIMALS.
11. The keeper of a registered lodging-house and every
lodger therein shall not suffer any animal to be kept in any part
thereof under his control, so as to render the house unclean or
unwholesome.
INSPECTION.
12. The keeper of, and every lodger in, a registered lodginghouse
shall give to the Medical Officer of Health and the
Inspector all such assistance as may be necessary for the purpose