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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
cubic feet of free air space for each person of an age
exceeding ten years, and of two hundred 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 such lodger respectively, as the
case may be.
During 1903 we have inspected and placed on the Register
170 houses, which, with 939 previously registered, makes a total
of 1,109 houses in the Borough. Houses in 120 streets and courts
are now registered. During the year the usual inspections have
been made, and a number of notices served. In the spring the
registered houses were cleansed, in accordance with the requirements
of the Bye-laws. Overcrowding also has been reduced in
many registered houses, and there is a substantial improvement
in their general sanitation.
There are still remaining out of the 9,000 houses in the
Borough a number which ought to be registered, and these will
be proceeded with in due course. In a general way it may be
said that it is tenement houses of the poorer class which require
registration. Such houses are exempt when the landlord resides
upon the premises, and the letting by such landlord is to not
more than one lodger.
Legal Proceedings under the Bye-laws.
During the year it has been necessary to take proceedings
under the Bye-laws for Houses let in Lodgings. Such
proceedings may be recorded briefly:—
(1.) Failure to cleanse Registered Houses (Bye-law 15).—Twentyone
summonses were issued under this Bye-law. Five were
dismissed by Mr. Mead; two were withdrawn, and in 14 we