The public health acts and other sanitary laws & regulations. : Specially prepared for the Diploma of public health / by Martin Elliott and Gilbert Elliott.

  • Elliott, Martin J.
Date:
1906
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    G. Common Lodging-houses.— Vide model bije-laws, pages 126—132. Definition by Cockburn, L.C.J., and Lord Hatherley:— A common lodging-house appears to us to have reference to that class of lodging-house in which jjersons of the poorer class are received for short periods, and though strangers to one another, are allowed to inhabit one common room. It does not include hotels, inns, public-houses, or lodgings let to the upper and middle classes. Every L. A. shall keep— (a) A register with names and residences of the keepers of all common lodging-houses within their dis- trict. (b) The situation of every such house. (c) The number of lodgers authorized by the L. A. to be received. ]tq'oTE.—The fact that cubicles afford separate sleeping accommodation at charges higher than the ordinary rate does not exempt such house from registration and inspection, if the other rooms are used in common by the lodgers. {Logsdon V. Trotter, (1900) 1 Q. B. 617.) The registered keeper of every such house sImII, if re- quired in writing by the L. A., affix and keep undefaced and legible a notice with the words Registered common lodging-house in some conspicuous place on the outside of such house. Every L. A. shall from time to time make bye-laws— 1. For fixing and varying the number of lodgers who may be received, and for the separation of the sexes. 2. Eor promoting cleanliness and ventilation. 3. For the giving of notices in ease of infectious disease.