Hygiene and public health / by Louis Parkes and Henry Kenwood.

  • Parkes, Louis Coltman, 1857-1942.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Hygiene and public health / by Louis Parkes and Henry Kenwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fro:Ti the rooms before lo a.m., and all utensils cleansed daily. The windows, yards, closets, and ashpits must be kept clean and in good order; and a sufficient supply of basins, towels, and water must be provided for the use of the lodgers. In the case of infectious disease occurring, the keeper of a common lodging-house must carry out all the measures and adopt all the precautions directed by the medical officer of health. The Act requires all walls and ceilings to be limewashed twice a year (April and October), and the keeper may be required to make a daily report to the local authority as to the persons resorting to his house. He must give immediate notice of any illness or fever amongst his lodgers to the medical officer of health and to the poor- law relieving officer of the union or parish. In London the common lodging-houses are regulated by the Common Lodging-houses Acts of 1851 and 1853, the provisions being practically identical with those above given. Until recently these houses were under the supervision of the Metropolitan Police; they are now, however, controlled by the London County Council. Houses let in Lodgings. Public Health Act, 1875 {section 90). When required by order of the Local Government Board, local authorities are empowered to make by-laws for houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family. The by-laws thus made provide (i) for fixing the number of persons who may be taken in as lodgers, and for the separation of the sexes; (2) for the registration of the houses : (3) for their inspection ; (4) for enforcing drainage and privy accommodation, and for promoting cleanliness and ventilation; (5) for the cleansing and limewashing of the premises, and for the paving of the courts and yards ; (6) for the giving of notices and the taking of precautions in case of any infectious disease. Houses in which the rooms are let at or above a certain weekly rental, to be determined by the local authority, are usually exempted from the operations of these by-laws. The minimum cubic space permitted is usually 400 or 450 cubic feet per head in the case of a room used both as a dwelling and sleeping room, and 300 or 350 cubic feet in the case of a room used for sleeping purposes only. The other regulations that can be made are very similar to those enumerated as applicable in the case of common lodging-houses, with the exception that it is seldom that