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St James's 1867

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

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3. Not more than two persons above the age of
fifteen years (unless they he of one sex), shall occupy the
same sleeping room.
4. Booms used as kitchens or sculleries and such
cellar dwellings as cannot lawfully, under Section 42 of
the Sanitary Act, 1866, be separately used for dwellings,
shall not be occupied as sleeping rooms.
5. A Register shall be kept at the Vestry Hall,
Piccadilly, of all houses to which these Regulations are
made to apply, and the persons paying or liable to pay Rates
for snch houses, or having paid them at the last collection,
or whose names are entered in the Poor Rate Books as
the occupiers thereof, shall be deemed to be the owners
for the purposes of these regulations.
6. The owner of every such house shall keep the
same in good repair and the roof thoroughly watertight,
and cause the walls and ceilings of every room, and of the
staircases and passages, and the vaults, cellars, areas, and
yards of such house to be well and sufficiently coloured or
limewashed, or otherwise thoroughly cleansed in the month
of April in every year, and at such other periods as may be
directed by the Vestry, and shall cause the floors of all
the rooms, passages, and stairs of such house, together
with the yards and areas attached thereto, to be kept at
all times thoroughly clean.
7. The owner of every such house shall cause every
room to be ventilated from the outside and otherwise, and
the passages and staircases to be lighted and ventilated at