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The following Rules and Regulations respecting
Lodging Houses, have been adopted by the Board,
and have been submitted to the Secretary of State
for approval.
Board of Works, Whitechapel District.
REGULATIONS for Houses let in Lodgings or Occupied by Members of more than
one Family (under the 20th and 30th Victoria, cap. 90), situate within the
Whitechapel District, defined by the Metropolis Local Management Acts.
1. For the registration of houses let in lodgings or occupied by members
of more than one family, hereinafter denominated " lodging-houses."
1—The Board of Works for the Whitechapel District may at any time hereafter
give to the keeper of any house within the Whitechapel District, which is let in
lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one family, notice in writing of these
regulations, under the hand of their Clerk, or other authorized officer, and shall give
such notice by leaving the same for such keeper at the house; and shall, by such
notice, require the keeper to register the house as by these regulations provided; and
such notice may be in the form A in the schedule to these regulations annexed, or
to the like effect.
2—Within six weeks after the giving of such notice to register, as aforesaid, the
keeper of any such lodging-house, or any other person, shall not allow such house to be
occupied by members of more than one family, unless the same has been registered for
the purpose, as by these regulations provided.
3—A Register Book, or Books, shall be kept at the Office of the Board of
Works, Great Alie-street, Whitechapel, wherein shall be entered the names and
residences of the keeper of any lodging-house, to be registered under these regulations,
and the situation of every such house, and the cubical capacity of every
room occupied or let, and also the number of inmates by which such house may be
legally occupied.
4—The keeper of any lodging-house, registered under these regulations, shall,
upon selling, assigning, or otherwise parting with his or her interest in the premises,
to any other person, give immediate notice in writing to the Board of Works of
the fact.