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Greenwich 1896

Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1897

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in such house or part of a house may have been let as a
lodging or for his use and occupation.
Exempted Houses.
2. A lodging-house shall be exempt from the operation of
these Bye-laws until the landlord of such lodging-house shall have
been required in pursuance of Bye-law 5 to furnish the statement
of particulars therein mentioned.
(a) For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house
or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by
members of more than one family:
(b) For the registration of houses so let or occupied:
(c) For the inspection of such houses:
(d) For enforcing drainage for such houses, and for promoting
cleanliness and ventilation in such houses:
(e) For the cleansing and lime-washing at stated times of the
premises:
(f) For the taking of precautions in case of any infectious
disease.
3. The landlord of a lodging-house or a lodger therein shall
not knowingly cause or suffer a greater number of persons than
will admit of the provision of three hundred cubic feet of free air
space for each person of an age exceeding ten years, and of one
hundred and fifty cubic feet of free air space for each person of an
age not exceeding ten years to occupy, at any one time, as a sleeping
apartment, a room which is used exclusively for that purpose, and
which is under the control of such landlord, or which has been let
to such lodger, respectively, as the case may be.
4. The landlord of a lodging-house, or a lodger therein, shall
not knowingly cause or suffer a greater number of persons than