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FOR SECURING THE ADEQUATE LIGHTING OF EVERY ROOM IN
LODGING-HOUSES.
23. Every owner of a lodging-house shall provide and maintain every habitable room of the
lodging-house with a window or windows opening directly into the external air and having, where
practicable, a total area, exclusive of the sash frames, equal at the least to one-tenth of the floor
area of the room and capable of being opened at the top to at least one-half of the extent of the window.
Provided that this Bye-law shall not apply in any case to which Section 70 (1) (c) of the London
Building Act, 1894, applies.
PRECAUTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
24. Where, in pursuance of any statutory provision in that behalf, an order has been obtained
for the removal from a lodging-house to a hospital or other place for the reception of the sick of a person
who is suffering from any dangerous infectious disease and is without proper lodging or accommodation,
the tenant of the lodging-house where the tenant resides in any part of the premises, and the
lodger to whom any room whereof the person aforesaid may be an occupant has been let shall, on
being informed of the order, forthwith take all such steps as are requisite on the part of the tenant
and of the lodger respectively, to secure the safe and prompt removal of the said person in compliance
with the order, and shall, in and about the removal adopt all such precautions as, in accordance
with any instruction which such tenant and such lodger, respectively, may receive from the Medical
Officer of Health of the Corporation, are most suitable for the circumstances of the case.
PENALTIES.
2.5 Except as hereinafter provided, every person who shall offend against any of these Bye-laws
shall be liable for every offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and in the case of a continuing
offence to a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for each day during which the offence continues
after written notice of the offence has been served upon such person by the Corporation.
• Provided that the penalty for any offence against or in respect of Bye-laws 16 (c) and (d) shall
not exceed forty shillings, and in the case of a continuing offence shall not exceed twenty shillings
for each day during which the offence continues after written notice as aforesaid.
REPEAL OF BYE-LAWS.
From and after the date of the confirmation of these Bye-laws, the Bye-laws with respect to
houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family which were made by the
Corporation on the 24th day of November, 1904, and allowed by the Local Government Board on the
20th day of January, 1905, shall be repealed.
Examined,
A. F. I. PICKFORD,
City Solicitor.
The Common Seal of the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London was affixed
to these Bye-laws at a duly constituted Meeting of the Court of Common Council held on the eighth
day of July, 1926, and in my presence.
L.S JAMES BELL,
Town Clerk.
The foregoing Bye-laws with respect to houses intended or used for occupation by the working
classes and let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family are hereby
allowed by the Minister of Health this tenth day of September, 1926.
H. W. S. FRANCIS,
Assistant Secretary,
Ministry of Health. L.S.