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1.—No Keeper of a Common Lodging House within the City of London
shall permit to sleep in any room at any one time 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.
2.—Every Keeper shall at all times give access to each room into which
lodgers are received when required by any person appointed by the Corporation,
for the purpose of making any inspection and enquiry, or for the
purpose of introducing, using or performing any disinfecting process which
the Corporation may order, and the expenses incurred by the Corporation
in so introducing, using, or performing any disinfecting process, shall be
recoverable by them in a summary manner from the Keeper in which the
same shall have been so introduced, used or performed.
3.—The Keeper shall cause every drain or means of drainage with which
any water-closet belonging to such house may communicate to be maintained
at all times in good order and efficient action.
He shall also cause all such means of ventilation as may be provided in or
in connection therewith to be maintained-at all times in good order.
4.—Every Keeper shall cause all solid or liquid filth or refuse to be
removed once at least in every day from every room therein which has been
let for hire, and shall once at least in every day cause every vessel, utensil, or
other receptacle for such filth or refuse to be thoroughly cleansed.
5.—No Keeper shall allow persons of different sexes to occupy the
same sleeping room, except in the case of a married couple, or parents
with their children under ten years of age, or except any children under ten
years of age.
6.—No Keeper shall allow more than one married couple to occupy the
same sleeping room, unless the beds are separated by a partition sufficiently
high to secure the privacy of each married couple, such partition to be of
wood, or other solid material, which shall be so constructed and fixed or
placed so as to allow adequate means of access to the bed which such partition
is intended to screen, and so as to extend upwards throughout the whole
length and breadth of such bed to a sufficient height, above such bed, and
downwards to a distance of not more than six inches above the level of the
floor.
7.—Every Keeper shall thoroughly cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs,
floors, windows, doors and walls thereof, as often as shall be necessary, and
shall also wash or otherwise cleanse all the bedsteads, beds, mattresses or