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St James's 1867

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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2. The Registration of such houses.
3. The regular inspection of Registered houses.
4. The enforcing Sanitary Regulations in such
houses.
Under the powers given by this Act the following
Regulations were made for this Parish, and approved
by the Secretary of State for the Home Department—
1. Whenever the Vestry may consider it necessary to
apply these Regulations to any house within the Parish,
which is let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more
than one family or household, they shall by their Clerk
give a written notice to the owner thereof of their intention
so to do, stating the entire number of persons allowed to
sleep in such house, together with a ticket stating the
number of each room and the number of persons which
each room is registered to accommodate, which ticket shall
be kept hung up in the room, and produced when required,
to any officer of the Vestry appointed for inspecting such
registered houses.
2. The minimum of space allowed for each inmate
of a room used either exclusively as a dormitory, or both
by day and night, shall be as follows:—
In Rooms haying
Chimneys.
CUBIC FEET.
In Rooms not having
Chimneys.
CUBIC FEET.
If occupied exclusively as Dormitories
400
500
If occupied both by day and night
500
600