The Common Lodging Houses Act 1851
WHEREAS it would tend greatly to the Comfort and Welfare of many of Her Majesty's poorer Subjects if Provision were made for the well-ordering of Common Lodging Houses: Be it therefore 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, as follows; to wit,