The theory and practice of hygiene (Notter and Firth) revised and largely re-written / by R.H. Firth.

  • Notter, J. L. (James Lane), 1843-1923.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The theory and practice of hygiene (Notter and Firth) revised and largely re-written / by R.H. Firth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    In London.—Outside the city of London the metropoUtan common lodging-houses are regulated by the Common Lodging-houses Acts, 1851 and 1853, which, except as regards the Metropolitan Police District, were repealed by section 343 of the Public Health Act, 1875. Section 3 of the Act of 1851 provided that the Act should be executed within and for all parts of the Metropohtan Police District by the Commissioners of PoUce. Ey a provisional order, however, of the Local Government Board, dated May 7, 1894, since confirmed by Parliament, these powers and duties of the Police Commissioners under those Acts have been transferred to the London County Council, from Is'ovember 1, 1894. Under the Common Lodging-houses Acts of 1851 and 1853, the powers for the control and management of those places are practically the same as those of Sanitary Authorities in other parts of the country under the Public Health Act, 1875; power being given to make regulations for them, subject to con- firmation of the Home Secretary (section 9). In the city of London the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875, as to common lodgmg-houses appear to apply, the Commissioners of Sewers being the local Sanitary Authority. ,. , In Scotland.—By the PubHc Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, sections 59 to 70, the provisions respecting common lodging-houses are similar to those in force in England. The definition, however, of a common lodging-house is pecuhar, it being defined as a house or part thereof where lodgers are housed at an amount not exceeding fourpence per night for each person, whether the same be payable nightly or weekly, or at any period not longer than a fortnight, or where the house is hcensed to lodge more than twelve persons. The amount charged may, with the approval of the Sanitary Authority, be diminished or raised, but not to exceed sixpence. In Ireland—The Irish Public Health Act of 1878, section 2, defines a common lodging-house to mean a house in which, or in any part of which, persons are harboured or lodged for hire for a single night, or for ess than a week at a time. The provision empowering a Sanitary Authority to remove a lodging-house from the register until a proper water-supply has been provided is compulsory, and not merely permissive as m Lngiand (section 92). In the case of failure on the part of the keeper to hmewash the waUs in the first weeks of April and October in each year the work can be executed by the Sanitary Authority, and the cost recovered m a summary- manner (section 93). Excepting some other minor differences the pro^- sions of the Irish Act, in respect of common lodging-houses, conforni closely with those of the English Act; while the ^lodel Bye-laws, issued by the Local Government Board for use in England, will also apply, with some small modifications, to Ireland. TENEMENT HOUSES. The term tenement houses is here used to express houses which while not being common lodging-houses as defined in the last section ar( Tet in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family So fai as relates to sanitary enactments hereafter to be explained, these tenemen hou s as above defined, are assumed to be only those houses occupied b] persons belonging to the poorer classes, and do not embrace houses of highe ''if EVgland and Wales.-Every Sanitary Authority, in respect of so called'Sment houses, has power to make bye-laws for their control an.