The public health acts amendment act, 1907 : with explanation, full commentary upon the sections, and summary of recent public health decisions / by Arthur E. Clery and J. McWalter.

Clery, Arthur Edward, 1879-1932.

Date:: 1908

Credit: The public health acts amendment act, 1907 : with explanation, full commentary upon the sections, and summary of recent public health decisions / by Arthur E. Clery and J. McWalter. 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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$ffter a tliird conviction. Now s. 69 (2) provides that in common lase of persons newly registered after the section is Lodging ipplied, the registration sliall be only for a year or such Houses, horter period as the local authority may determine, b^it may be renewed from time to time, thus giving them, J!!! effect, power to remove a name at their discretion fter a short delay. Section 72, 2>ost, deals with removal from the register of jdging-house keepers convicted of offences against the \^ct, hi/ tilt rinirt, hi fun irlm/ii In is con rirt < d. See (''.) (b) Obligation of Resident Supervision.—Every lommon lodging-liouse must in future be controlled and imanaged either by the lodging-house keeper or an approved deputy specially appointed, and either the ' kecpei- oi- his tlcputy must reside on (he premises at light (s. 70 (1) ). The neglect of this pi'ovision, cither ly tlie keeper or liis (le])uty, exposes Ihc '' kcejier nimself to a penalty of 4ns., and a dailv penalty of 20s. llThe deputy (or deputies, for moi-e than one may be ■•xppointed) must be registered, like keepers, but on I special register, and the local authority niav at any .1 ime cancel the registration (s. 71). I| (c) Incre.\sed Scope of Punishment. — S. 72 allows ■the court, before which the conviction is obtained, to i'.cancel the registration of a common lodging-house (ikkeeper, on his conviction of one offence against the lilPublic Health Acts or the present Act, instead of after ['■■three as under the former provisions (s. 99) of the Public ''Health Act, which are now repealed (s. 75 (2) ), where- •ever the provisions of the present Act are put in force. S. 73 renders an unregistered keeper of a common I lodging-hou.se liable to the same penalties under s. 97 '•of the Public Ilcalth Act, as a registered one. ('/) Provision of S.vnit.\ry Accommodation.—By s. 74 the keepers of common lodging-houses are compelled to provide suitable sanitary conveniences for men and women (separately), including a proper supply of water for flushing w.c.'s and urinals. The suitability is apparently a question in the discretion of the local$