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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—-1894.
premises, such lodger and in any case where two or more lodgers in a lodging-house
are entitled to the use in common of any court, court-yard, area, or other open space
within the curtilage of the premises, the landlord shall cause such court, court-yard,
area, or other open space to be thoroughly cleansed from time to time as often as
may be requisite for the purpose of keeping the same in a cleanly condition.
10. The landlord of a lodging-house shall cause every drain or means of drainage
with which any water-closet belonging to such house may communicate, to be maintained
at all times in good order and efficient action. He shall also cause all such
means of ventilation as may be provided in or in connection therewith, to be maintained
at all times in good order.
11. Every lodger in a lodging-house shall cause all solid or liquid filth or refuse
to be removed once at least in eyery day from every room which has been let to him,
and shall once at least in every day cause every vessel, utensil, or other receptacle
for such filth or refuse to be thoroughly cleansed.
12. In every case where a lodger in a lodging-house is entitled to the exclusive
use of any staircase, landing, or passage in such house such lodger shall cause every
part of such staircase, landing, or passage to be thoroughly cleansed from time to
time as often as may be requisite.
13. A lodger in a lodging-house shall not cause or suffer any animal to be kept
in any room which has been let to such lodger or elsewhere upon the premises in
such a manner as to render the condition of such room or premises filthy.
14. The landlord of a lodging-house shall cause every common passage or staircase
in such house to be thoroughly cleansed from time to time as often as may be
requisite.
15. The landlord of a lodging-house shall in the first week of the month of April
in every year cause every part of the premises to be cleansed.
He shall at the same time, except in such cases as are hereinafter specified, cause
every area, the interior surface of every ceiling, and the wall of every water-closet
belonging to the premises, and the interior surface of every ceiling and the wall of
every room, staircase, and prssage in the house to be thoroughly lime-washed.
Provided that the foregoing requirements with respect to the lime-washing of the
internal surface of the walls of rooms, staircases, and passages, shall not apply in any
case where the internal surface of any wall is painted, or where the material of or
with which such surface is constructed or covered is such as to render the limewashing
thereof unsuitable or inexpedient, and where such surface is thoroughly
cleansed, and the paint or other covering is renewed, if the renewal thereof be
necessary for the purpose of keeping the premises in a cleanly and wholesome
condition.
16. The landlord of a lodging-house shall provide adequate means of ventilation
in or in connection with every common passage or staircase in such house, and shall
cause such means of ventilation to be maintained at all times in good order.
17. The landlord of a lodging-house shall cause all such means of ventilation as
may be provided in or in connection with any room in such house to be maintained
at all times in good order.
18. In every case where, in pursuance of any statutory provision in that behalf,
an order of a justice has been obtained for the removal from the lodging-house to a
hospital of a person who is suffering from any dangerous infectious disease and is
without proper lodging or accommodation, the landlord of such house, and the lodger
to whom any room whereof such person may be an occupant has been let shall, on
being informed of such order, forthwith take all such steps as may be requisite on the
part of such landlord, and of such lodger, respectively, to secure the safe and prompt
removal of such person in compliance with such order, and shall, in and about such
removal, adopt all such precautions as, in accordance with any instructions which
such landlord and such lodger, respectively may receive from the Medical Officer of
Health of the Sanitary Authority, may be most suitable for the circumstances of the
case.