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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    1<6 shall, if possible, be provided outside the house; or, if in the house, one at least of its sides shall be an external wall. 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. 18. All sinks and drains shall be properly trapped and kept in good repair. No closet-drain shall discharge itself into a rain-water pipe. No rain-water pipe shall be carried underground, or open directly into a drain. No waste-water or over-flow pipe from any cistern or water-receptacle, supplying water used for domestic pur- poses, shall open directly into any drain, or communicate directly with any closet. Neither (if it be possible to avoid it) shall any pipe from a sink within the house be carried directly into any drain. 19. All cellars, yards, and areas shall be properly paved and drained. 20. 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. (C.) *Regulations to be Observed by the Tenants of Lodgings. 21. Ft shall be the duty of every tenant to co-operate with the letter of lodgings in all those matters which specially concern him as specified in Sections 5, G, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13; and nothing contained in these regulations shall absolve him from the performance of such of these duties as it may be arranged betiveen him and the letter of lodgiwfs that lie shall perform, or of such as properly belong to him. (D.) Penalties. 22. Any registered person or tenant who shall violate or fail to carry out any of the above Regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings, nor less than Five, for any one offeuce, and to an additional penalty not exceeding Twenty Shillings, nor less than Fine, for every day during which a default in obeying such Regulations shall continue.