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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Martin-in-the-Fields 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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exceeds £80, and the rent payable by such
lodger, exclusive of the charge for the use by
such lodger of any furniture, exceeds the
sum of Eight Shillings per week.
(b.) Where the rateable value of the house
exceeds £80, and the rent payable by such
lodger, inclusive of the charge for the use of
any furniture, exceeds the sum of Ten
Shillings per week.
Number of Lodgers.
5. No landlord or lodger shall permit or suffer a
greater number of persons than will admit of the
provision of 300 cubic feet of free air space for each
person of an age exceeding 10 years, and of 150
cubic feet for each person of an age not exceeding
10 years, to occupy at any one time as a sleeping
apartment a room exclusively used for that purpose.
6. No landlord or lodger shall permit or suffer a
greater number of persons than will admit of the
provision of 400 cubic feet of free air space for each
person of an age exceeding 10 years, and of 200
cubic feet for each person of an age not exceeding
10 years, to occupy at any one time as a sleeping
apartment a room which is not exclusively used for that
purpose.