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(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. A lodger in a lodging-house and, subject to the
provisions of these bye-laws the keeper of the lodging-house
or, where there is no keeper and the landlord resides on the
premises, the landlord of the lodging-house shall not knowingly
cause or suffer a greater number of persons than will admit of
the provision of three hundred and fifty cubic feet of free air
space for each person of an age exceeding ten years, and of one
hundred and seventy-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 used exclusively
for that purpose, and which in the case of the lodger has been
let to such lodger.
4. A lodger in a lodging-house and, subject to the
provisions of these bye-laws the keeper of the lodging-house or,
where there is no keeper and the landlord resides on the premises,
the landlord of the lodging-house 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 in the case of the lodger
has been let to that lodger.
5. The keeper, or where there is no keeper, 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
Town Clerk and duly served upon or delivered to such keeper
or landlord as the case may be, to supply the information