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COMMON LODGING-See also:

HOUSE, " a house, or See also:part of a house, where persons of the poorer classes are received for gain, and in which they use one or more rooms in common with the See also:rest of the inmates, who are nc+.. members of one See also:family, whether for eating or sleeping " (See also:Langdon v. Broadbent, 1877, 37 L.T. 434; See also:Booth v. Ferrett, 189o, 25 Q.B.D. 87). There is no statutory See also:definition of the class of houses in See also:England intended to be included in the expression " common lodging-house," but the above definition is very generally accepted as embracing those houses which, under the Public See also:Health and other Acts, must be registered and inspected. The provisions of the Public Health See also:Act 1875 are that every See also:urban and rural See also:district See also:council must keep registers showing the names and residences of the keepers of all common lodging-houses in their districts, the situation of every such house, and the number of lodgers authorized by them to be received therein. They may require the keeper to affix and keep undefaced and legible a See also:notice with the words " registered common lodging-house " in some conspicuous See also:place on the outside of the house, and may make by-See also:laws fixing the number of lodgers, for the separation of the sexes, for promoting cleanliness and See also:ventilation, for the giving of notices and the taking of precautions in See also:case of any infectious disease, and generally for the well ordering of such houses. The keeper of a common lodging-house is required to limewash the walls and ceilings twice a year—in See also:April and October—and to provide a proper See also:water-See also:supply. The whole of the house must be open at all times to the inspection of any officer of a council. The See also:county of See also:London (except the See also:city) is under the Common Lodging Houses Acts 1851 and 1853, with the Sanitary Act 1866 and the Sanitary See also:Law See also:Amendment Act 1874. The See also:administration of these acts was, from 1851 to 1894, in the hands of the See also:chief See also:commissioner of See also:police, when it was transferred to the London County Council.

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