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PART II.
Regulations for Registered Lodging-Houses.
5.—No keeper or lodger shall permit a room in a registered
lodging-house used exclusively for sleeping to be
occupied by any number of persons greater than will afford
a space of 300 cubic feet for each person.
6.—No keeper or lodger shall permit a room in a
registered lodging-house used both for sleeping and for other
general purposes of life to be occupied by any number of
persons greater than will afford a space of 350 cubic feet
for each person.
7.—Two children under 10 years of age shall be reckoned
as one person.
8.—Every keeper of and lodger in a registered lodginghouse
shall admit the Medical Officer or the Inspector to
examine his premises, and shall afford all facilities for such
examination at all times between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m., and
also at all other times, except that the Inspector shall not
be entitled to demand admission at such other times without
a written authority signed by the Medical Officer.
9.—The owner af a registered lodging house shall
provide sufficient drainage, water-closets at the rate of at
least one for every 12 lodgers, sufficient means of ventilation,
sufficient water supply, and a covered dust box or bin, and
shall cause the waste-pipes of sinks and overflow-pipes of
cisterns to be disconnected from the drains, the gullies to be
properly trapped, the soil pipes to be ventilated, and the
yard to be properly paved.
10.—The keeper of a registered lodging-house shall
cause the walls and ceilings of every room, and of the
staircase, water closets, and passages, and the walls of the
yards, to be thoroughly cleansed or limewhited, at least once
every year, in the month of March or April.