A handy book of sanitary law / by Martin Ware.

  • Ware, Martin.
Date:
1866
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Credit: A handy book of sanitary law / by Martin Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    requisites as to the area in front, the fire-place, and the size and power of opening of the window. And no room, not so occupied before the passing of the Act, can be used as a dwelling unless it he 7 feet high, and have at least one foot of its height above the street, with proper area, fire-place, and window, and unless it be properly drained and secured from the rise of effluvia from drains, and unless there be appurtenant to it the use of a proper water-closet, or privy, and ash-pit (s. 103). And the district surveyor is bound to make a periodical return of all underground dwellings contrary to the en- actment ; and he, or any other person, having reasonable ground for believing that any room is occupied contrary to the Act, has power of entry in the day-time to inspect such dwellings, and, if admission is refused, may apply to a magistrate to authorize the inspection (s. 104 and “ Metropolis Management Act, 1862,” s. 62). The penalty for violating the Act is a sum not exceeding 20s. for each day during which the dwelling is so occu- pied (“Metropolis Management Act, 1855,” s. 103). Places under the Public Health and Local Government Acts. In these places, no cellar or underground room, built or rebuilt after the 31st August, 1848, can be let or occu- pied separately as a dwelling (for sleeping in). Nor can any cellar, or underground room, previously so occupied, continue to be so used unless it possesses requisites nearly analogous to those prescribed by the