The health officer's pocket-book : a guide to sanitary practice and law for medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors, members of sanitary authorities, etc. / by Edward F. Willoughby.
- Willoughby, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1839 or 1840-1906.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The health officer's pocket-book : a guide to sanitary practice and law for medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors, members of sanitary authorities, etc. / by Edward F. Willoughby. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SECS. p.h.(l.)a. [particular] water-course from pollution by sewage either within or without their district, and all costs whatever incident thereto shall be deemed expenses properly incurred in the execution of this Act. 70 54 See notes. Cellar, Dwellings and Lodging-houses. 71 96 (1) See notes. 72 96 (1) 73 96 (2) 74 96 (7-8) 75 98 Identical N.B. Definition of a common lodging-house.—That given by Sir A. Cockburn and Lord Hatherley when consulted as to the Act relating thereto in 1853 (14 & 15 Vic. c. 28), seems to be accepted by the L.G.B.,viz. That class of lodging-houses in which persons of the poorer class are received for short periods, and though strangers to one another, are allowed to inhabit one common room. By strangers they meant lodgers promiscuously brought together as distinguished from the members of one family or household, and they considered the period of letting to be unimportant for the definition. [Would not public dormitory be a sufficient definition if the condition of payment be assumed, to distinguish it from a casual ward or shelter ?] Keeper is nowhere defined. They were of opinion that 1' when a person neither resides in the house nor exercises any con- trol over its management, but simply receives the rent, he cannot be considered the keeper; but where the owner, though not resi- dent in the house, exercises control either in person or through an agent, there was no doubt as to his being the keeper. In general the person who derives immediate profit from the letting of the lodgings may be regarded as the keeper. The following sections 76—79 are not in the P.H.(L.)A., the matter being regulated in London by other Acts. 76 Every L. A. shall keep a register of all common lodging- houses, the number of persons that may be received, and the names and addresses of the keepers. A copy of every entry certified by the clerk of the L.A. shall be received in court, &c, as evidence, and be supplied gratis to any person applying for one. 77 No one may keep a common lodging-house unless he and the house be registered as aforesaid, though his widow or one of his family [i.e. a relative acting as](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20404116_0307.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
