The Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851
WHEREAS it is desirable, for the Health, Comfort, and Welfare of the Inhabitants of Towns and populous Districts, to encourage the Establishment therein of well-ordered Lodging Houses for the Labouring Classes: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,