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"Nuisance Authority;"—the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary
Islington.
" Officer ;"— Medical Officer of Health and the Superintendent
Sanitary Inspector, and other Inspectors of Nuisances of such Vestry,
and any person appointed by Such Vestry for the purpose of such
Regulations.
" Adult; "—one person over ten years of age, or two persons under
that age.
REGISTRATION.
2. A Register shall be kept by the Nuisance Authority of all houses let
in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family in the Parish of
St. Mary Islington to which the Nuisance Authority from time to time resolve
these- Regulations shall apply.
3. No house shall be placed upon the register until so resolved at a
meeting of the Nuisance Authority. Upon the passing of any such resolution
the Nuisance Authority shall cause Notice thereof to be served at the house in
question, together with a copy of these Regulations, and such house shall
forthwith be deemed a " Registered Lodging-house," and these Regulations
shall operate in respect of such premises so long as the premises are let in
lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one family.
4. The landlord of a lodging-house, within a period of seven days after
he shall have been required by a notice in writing, signed by the Clerk to the
Nuisance Authority, and duly served upon or delivered to such landlord, shall
personally, or by his agent duly authorised in that behalf, attend at the office
of the Nuisance Authority dining office hours, and then and there furnish and
sign a true statement of the following particulars with respect to such house ;
that is to say,—
(a) The total number of rooms in the house :
(b) The total number of rooms let in lodgings or occupied by members
of more than one family :
(e) The number and age of the occupants of each room used for
sleeping :
(d) The Christain name and surname of the lessee of each room.
OVERCROWDING.
5. The landlord of a registered lodging-house shall not knowingly cause
or suffer a greater number of persons than will admit of the provision of