A manual of hygiene : public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws ; for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

  • Cameron, Charles Alexander, 1830-1921.
Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene : public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws ; for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    of the local authority, and shall well and sufficiently, and to the like satisfaction, limewash the walls and ceilings thereof in the first week of each of the months oi April and October \\\ every year. 14. If the keeper of a common lodging house, or any other person Penalty for having or acting in the care or management thereof, offend against any ofTences against of the provisions of this act, or any of the bye-laws or regulations made •'^'''^ A-*' in pursuance of this act, or if any person in any common lodging house be confined to his bed for forty-eight hours by fever or any infectious or contagious disease, without the keeper of such house giving notice thereof as required by this act, every person so offending shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to a further penalty not exceedmg forty shillings for every day during which the offence continues: provided always, that this act shall not exempt any person from any penalty or other liability to which he may be sub- ject irrespective of this act. 15. The clauses and provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Recovery of Act, 1845, with respect to the recovery of damages not specially pro- ■'^^°* ''^''' vided for, and of penalties, and to the determination of any otlier matter referred to justices, are for the purposes and execution of this act incorporated with this act. 16. The local authority, and all justices, constables, and others, shall Cr.eeral powers .- 1 , r n • • T • .1 -i- J • 1 -i- of Local Autlio- respectively have lull jurisdiction, powers, authorities, and indemnities j.jty^ ^^^ for executing the several provisions of this act ; and the restrictions of the Public Health Act, 1848, as to the hours within which common lodging houses may be entered by persons authorized by a local board of health, shall not apply to this act. 17. That this act shall not extend to the city oiLondon or the liberties ^°* ^^ '°^, thereof. extend to tho 18. That nothing in this act shall extend to Scotland. nor to Scotland.' SCHEDULE, Form of Notice. Take notice, that on the [ ] day of [ ] an act called The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, was passed, and that before the [ ] day of [ ] you, being the keeper of a common lodging house within \here state the place over tvhich the jurisdiction of the local authority giving the notice extends^, must have your common lodging house registered, and that the register is to be kept at \Jiere state where the register is to be kept], and that if you do not have your common lodging house so registered you will be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every lodger whom you receive in your common lodging house while it is not so registered ; and that on your applying to [here give the name and address of the person to keep the register] he will register your common lodging house free of all charge to you. Dated drv. [ .]