[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Burnley County Borough.

  • Burnley (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Burnley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Houses Let in Lodgings. HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS. There are 80 houses in Burnley registered as Houses Let in Lodgings in accordance with section 50 of the Public Health Act of 1875. Byelaws have been mad' in accordance with this section and provide :— (1) For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family, and for the se])aration of the sexes in a house so let or occupied. (2) For the registration of houses so let or occupied. (3) For the inspection of such houses. (4) For enforcing drainage and the provision of privy accommodation for such houses, and for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in such houses. (5) For the cleansing and lime-washing at slated times of the premises, and for the paving of the courts and the courtyards thereof. (6) For the giving of notices and the taking of precautions in case of any infectious disease. The 80 houses mentioned are divided into 185 separate tenements. These tenements are for the most part let furnished, and they are divided as follows :— One roomed 101 Two roomed 19 Three roomed 5 Total.... 185 The number of tenements to each house varies from one to forty-three. Twenty-nine of the above are really one-roomed houses, and only come under the definition of Houses Let in Lodgings because they are let furnished and are let from week to week. The house with 43 tenements is the old Militia Ba racks in Clifton Square. The tenements vary in price according to the number and size of the rooms ; the rent varying from 3/- to 5/- a week, which includes the loan of the furniture, generally of a very inferior kind ; the bed and bedding; curtains and blinds to the windows. These aitides.
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