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 St James's, Westminster]
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WASH-HOUSE, CELLAR, YARD, AND AREA.
19.—The Owner of a registered house shall cause every wash-house,
cellar, yard and area thereof to be properly payed and drained, and shall
lime-whiten the walls of the wash-house, cellar, yard and area, in the month
of April in every year.
20. The Owner of a registered house shall cause every wash-house,
cellar, yard and area not under the exclusive control of any one lodger to
be properly swept and thoroughly cleansed when necessary, and shall
otherwise maintain the premises in a cleanly and wholesome state.
21.—Where a lodger in a registered house is entitled to the exclusive
use of any wash-house, cellar, yard, or area belonging to such house, such
lodger shall cause such wash-house, cellar, yard, and area to be properly
swept and thoroughly cleansed when necessary, and shall otherwise maintain
the premises in a cleanly and wholesome state.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
22.—The Owner of a registered house shall give immediate notice in
writing to the Vestry Clerk or other the principal officer for the time
being of the Vestry, and verbal notice to every lodger, when anyone therein
in ill or dead of small-pox, typhus, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diptheria,
cholera, or any other dangerously infectious or contagious disease, and ho
shall carry out without delay all measures for disinfection which the
Medical Officer of Health may direct.
23.—Every lodger in a registered house shall give immediate notice in
writing to the owner and to the Vestry Clerk, or other the principal
officer for the time being of the Vestry, when anyone is ill or dead of small
pox, typhus, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diptheria, cholera, or any other
dangerously infectious or contagious disease in any room occupied by him,
and ho shall carry out without delay all measures for disinfection which
the Medical Officer of Health may direct.
ANIMALS.
24.—The Owner of a registered house, and every lodger therein, shall
not suffer any animal to bo kept in any part thereof under his control, so
as to render the house or any part thereof uuclean or unwholesome
INSPECTION.
25.—The Owner of, and every Lodger in, a registered house, shall sllow
such house and every part thereof to be inspected by the Oflicer on his
application.