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ventilation as are provided in or in connection with any room
in the lodging-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 a lodging-house to a hospital of a person
who is suffering from any dangerous infectious disease and is
without proper lodging or accommodation, the keeper, or where
there is no keeper and the landlord resides on the premises, the
landlord of the lodging-house, and the lodger to whom any
room whereof the person aforesaid may be an occupant has been
let shall, on being informed of the order, forthwith take all such
steps as are requisite on the part of the keeper or landlord and
of the lodger respectively, to secure the safe and prompt removal
of the said person in compliance with the order, and shall, in
and about the removal adopt all such precautions as, in
accordance with any instructions which such keeper or landlord
and such lodger, respectively, may receive from the Medical
Officer of Health of the Council, are most suitable for the
circumstances of the case.
19. Where a duty imposed upon or a prohibition applied
to the keeper or landlord of a lodging-house as the case may be
is by any bye-law expressly imposed or applied subject to the
provisions of these bye-laws, proceedings shall not be taken
against the keeper or landlord as the case may be for an offence
against the bye-law unless and until the keeper or landlord, as
the case may be, after service upon him of a notice in writing by
the Council requiring him within such reasonable time as is
specified in the notice to comply with the bye-law has failed to
comply with the bye-law within the time so specified.
Penalties.
20. Every person who shall offend against any of the
foregoing bye-laws shall be liable for every such offence to a
penalty of five pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence
to a further penalty of forty shillings for each day after written
notice of the offence from the Council.