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a room in such house exclusively used
for that purpose.
6.—No Landlord or Tenant of a
Registered-House shall knowingly
permit or suffer a greater number of
persons than will admit of the provision
of 400 cubic feet of free air
space for each person to occupy at
any one time a room in such house
used both as a sleeping apartment
and for some other purpose.
Water Supply and Drainage.
7.—The Landlord of a RegisteredHouse
shall provide an adequate
supply of water for the use of the
tenants thereof.
8.—No Landlord of a Registered
House shall cause or suffer any
cistern or pipe supplying water in
the said house for drinking or for
use in the preparation of food or for
any other ordinary purposes, to
have such connection with a drain
or water-closet as may lead to the
contamination of the water contained
in such cistern or pipe.
9.—The Landlord of a Registered
House shall keep all drains and
drainage apparatus therein in proper
working order and good sanitary
condition.
or injurious to the health of the persons
employed therein, if the number
of cubic feet of space in any room
therein to the number of persons
employed at once in the room a proportion
less than two hundred and
fifty, or, during any period of overtime,
four hundred cubic feet of space
to every person.
7.—Public Health (London) Act,
Section 48 (1): An occupied house
without a proper and sufficient
supply of water shall be a nuisance
liable to be dealt with summarily
under this Act, and, if it is a dwelling
house, shall be deemed unfit for
human habitation.
8.—Regulations made under the
Metropolis Water Act, 1871:—
Reg. 14.—No overflow or wastepipe
other than a " warning-pipe "
shall be attached to any cistern
supplied with water by the Company,
and every such overflow or
wastepipe existing at the time when
these Regulations came into operation
shall be removed, or at the
option of the consumer shall be
converted into an efficient " warningpipe
" within two calendar months
next after the Company shall have
given to the occupier, or left at the
premises in which such cistern is
situated, a notice in writing requiring
such alteration to be made.
9.—The Nuisance Section (2) of
the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, the By-laws of the London
County Council, and the Regulations
as to drainage of the Vestry, provide
for the control of drains and
drainage apparatus.