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palliasses, pillows, blankets, rugs, covers, sheets, and chamber utensils used in
such house as often as shall be necessary to keep the same at all times in
a clean and wholesome condition.
8.—Every Common Lodging House shall be provided with separate
water-closet accommodation for persons of each sex in the proportion of one
water-closet to every twenty authorised lodgers of either sex, and shall
cause such water-closets to be kept at all times in a clean and wholesome
condition.
9.—Every Common Lodging House shall be furnished with proper
and sufficient movable receptacles for containing dust and ashes, and refuse,
and such receptacles shall be cleared out and the contents removed from
the house and premises daily.
10.—Every Keeper shall cause each room occupied as a sleeping room
to be properly furnished with bedsteads and sufficient bedding, and necessary
utensils, for the number of persons authorised to be received in such room,
and he shall cause every room occupied by single men to be furnished with
bedsteads and bedding of a size adapted for one person only.
11.—No Keeper shall permit any room in the basement, or any room
the floor of which is below the level of the ground, to be used as a sleeping
room.
12.—No Keeper shall permit any kitchen or cellar to be occupied as a
sleeping room.
13.—Every Keeper shall, for the separate use of the lodgers of both sexes
received into such house, cause to be provided a sufficient number of basins
or other receptacles for water, of adequate capacity and suitably placed, and
a sufficient supply of water and a sufficient number of towels for use in
connection with such basins and receptacles. He shall cause such basins
or receptacles to be kept clean and in good order, and the supply of towels
to be renewed, from time to time, as often as may be requisite.
14.—The Keeper shall, in the first week of the month of April in every
year, cause every part of the premises to be cleansed.
He shall, at the same time, except in such cases as are hereinafter specified,
cause every area, the interior surface of every ceiling and wall of every watercloset
belonging to the premises, and the interior surface of every ceiling and
wall of every room, staircase, and passage in the house to be thoroughly
lime-washed.
Provided that the foregoing requirement with respect to the lime-washing
of the internal surface of the walls of rooms, staircases and passages shall not
apply in any case where the internal surface of any such wall is painted, or