Report to the Sewers and Sanitary Committee of the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, on houses let in lodgings.

  • Bristowe, John Syer, 1827-1895.
Date:
[1884]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report to the Sewers and Sanitary Committee of the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, on houses let in lodgings. 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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    the cistern or butt shall be properly covered, and in all respects satisfactory to the Medical Officer of Health. 12. A properly constructed, panned, and trapped water-closet, with properly acting water-apparatus, and drained into the sewer, shall be provided outside the house. If, when the number of inmates exceeds twenty, it appears to the Medical Officer of Health that further privy accommodation is required, an additional water-closet, or additional water-closets, shall be provided. 13. All sinks and drains shall be properly trapped and kept in good repair. 14. All cellars, yards, and areas shall be properly paved and drained. 15. Every house shall be provided with a covered dust-bin, in the best practicable situation, and of sufficient size to contain a week's accumulation of dust, ashes, &c. But when it appears allowable to the Medical Officer of Health, a dust-bin may be provided in common for two or more contiguous houses. Regulations affecting both Person Letting Lodgings and Landlord. 16. Whenever the Vestry shall require it, any registered letter of lodgings, or any registered landlord of a lodging-house, whose dwelling house is not near to the house, or houses, of which he is the registered letter or landlord, shall appoint as his agent some person resident in or near such house or houses, to see that the foregoing Regulations (as far as they relate to his duties as letter of lodgings or landlord) are strictly carried out in regard to such house or houses. But the registered person shall be responsible for any act or default of his agent in the execution of these Regulations. 17. Any registered person who shall violate or fail to carry out any of the above Regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings for any one offence, and to an additional penalty not exceeding Twenty Shillings for every day during which a default in obeying such Regulations shall continue.