The London health laws : a manual of the law affecting the housing and sanitary condition of Londoners, with special reference to the dwellings of the poor / issued by the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor.

Date:: 1894

Credit: The London health laws : a manual of the law affecting the housing and sanitary condition of Londoners, with special reference to the dwellings of the poor / issued by the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$5. Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be injurious or dangerous to the health of the iumates, whether or not members of the same family, Where the medical officer of health certifies to this effect, the sanitary authority must take proceedings to stop the nuisance.^ 6. The absence from any premises of the water fittings prescribed by the Water Act, 1891, in the event of a constant supply.^ This absence of fittings is to be deemed to render the premises unfit for human habitation until the contrary is shown to the satisfaction of a magistrate.^ 7. An occupied house without a proper and sufficient supply of water.* 8. ^ Any factory, workshop, or workplace which is not a factory subject to the provisions of the Factories and Workshops Acts, 1878 and 1891,as to cleanliness, ventilation, and overcrowding, and has any of the follow ing defects :— {a) Is not kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy, earth-closet, water-closet, or other nuisance; or ih) is not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless, as far as practicable, any gases, vapours, dust, or other impurities, generated in the course of the work carried on that are a nuisance, or injurious or dangerous to the health; or (c) is so overcrowded while work is carried o]i as to be injiirious or dangerous to the health of those employed therein. In considering whether a dwelling-house, or part of a dwelling-house, which is used also as a factory, work- ' Section 4 (3 c). 2 54 & 55 Vict., c. 76, section 2 (1 /); 34 & 35 Vict., c. llo, section 33. 3 Section 4 (3 d). 4 54 and 55 Vict., c. 76, section 48 (1). 5 54 & 55 Vict., c. 76, section 2 {1 g ). Sections of the Act of 1878, c. 16 : and sections 1-5 of the Act of 1891, c, 75.$