Sanitary law : a digest of the sanitary acts of England and Scotland / by H. Aubrey Husband.

Date:
1883
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    opinion that it does not include hotels, inns, public- iiouses, or lodgings let to the upper classes or middle classes. The term ‘ strangers to one another ’ was in- tended to distinguish lodgers promiscuously brought together from members of one family or household.” In the case of Langdon v. Broadhent [37 L.J. (B'.S.) 434] it was held that a house was a common lodging- house which I'eceived all comers, the itinerant character of the gi'eater number of the lodgers making it i>ro- bable that they did not as a I'ule make any long stay in the house; and Mr Justice Lindley remarked— “ Tlie kind of house that is meant is one that is open to all comers, and therefore rccpiires supeiudsion in order to ensure cleanliness.” Grove, J., remarked—■ “ The object of this provision of the Act being to promote health, by preventing dirt and overcrowding, the evidence seems to me to clearly show that this case must be decided on its own fiicts. There may be lodgingdiouses resorted to by a higher class of persons, to which the term ‘common lodgincr-house’ would not be applicable. I do not think it is necessary to show that lodgers are all herded together in order to biing the case within the statute. Even if a common room is neces.sary to constitute a common lodging-house, the evidence here sliows that they all took their meals togethei’.” In Ireland it has lieen held that the landlord of a house, all the rooms of which are let out in tenements by the week, at rents less than 3s. a week, although he does not reside ujion the premises, is the keepei- of a common lodging-house within the meaning of the Jdublin Improvement Act, 1864.
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