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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![SEC. administrator, &c] may keep the house on for one month after his death without being registered as keeper. 78 No house shall be thus registered until it have been inspected and approved by some officer of the L.A., and L.A. may refuse to register any person without such certificate of good character as they may prescribe, signed by three inhabitant householders in district rated at £6. 79 If required by L. A., the words Kegistered Lodging- house shall be kept affixed conspicuously to outside of house, under a penalty < £5 and D.P. 105. 80 Every L.A. shall make bye-laws for—(1) fixing and varying number of lodgers in common lodging-houses, and for separation of sexes ; (2) promoting cleanliness and ventilation ; (3) notification and precautions in case of infectious disease ; and (4) the general well- ordering of such houses. 81 When a common lodging-house is without a proper supply of water for use of lodgers, and it appears to L.A. that such could be obtained at a reasonable cost, they may require owner to provide it within a given time on pain of removal of house from register. 82 Keeper shall lime-wash walls and ceilings in first week of every October and April, to satisfaction of L.A. on pain of fine < £2. 83 Where beggars and vagrants are received, the keeper shall, if required, report in writing to L. A., or to whom they may direct, in schedules supplied by L.A., all persons lodged there in preceding day and night. 84 All keepers shall immediately report to M.O.H. and Relieving-Officer any case of fever or infectious disease. 85 All persons having or acting in management of such houses shall at all times when required by any officer of L.A. admit him to any part under a penalty < £5. 86 Failure to register house, to report lodgers in schedules supplied, or to notify when any person has been con- fined to bed [needless addition to § 84, such cases, especially small-pox, are often '' ambulant ], with in- fectious disease involves penalty < £5, and D.P. <C £2. 87 The onus of proving that any number of inmates of a house or a part thereof are members of the same family, rests on the person alleging it. 88 After a third conviction of an offence against the pro- visions of this part of the Act, the Court may adjudge the offender to be for five years, or for any shorter period, disqualified from being the keeper of a lodging-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20404116_0308.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
