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City of London 1895

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1895

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4. 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 four hundred and fifty
cubic feet of free air space for each person of an
age exceeding ten years, and of two hundred and
twenty-five 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 not used exclusively for
that purpose, and which is under the control of
such landlord, or which has been let to or is
occupied by such lodger respectively, as the
case may be.
5. The landlord of a lodging-house, within a
period of fourteen days after he shall have been
required by a notice in writing, signed by the
Clerk to the Sanitary Authority and duly served
upon or delivered to such landlord, to supply
the information necessary for the registration
of such house by the Sanitary Authority, shall,
himself, or by his agent duly authorised in that
behalf, sign and furnish to the Sanitary
Authority a true statement of the following