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(d) For enforcing drainage for such houses, and for
promoting cleanliness and ventilation in such
houses.
(e) For the cleansing and limewashing, at stated times,
of the premises.
(/) For the taking- of precautions in case of infectious
disease.
The two main objects of the bye-laws are the maintenance
of sanitation and cleanliness and the prevention of overcrowding-.
The former is attained by a variety of bye-laws
(9-17) and the latter by bye-laws 3 and 4, which lay down the
following- standard :—
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 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.