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2—For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house, or part of
a house, which is let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more
than one family.
5—No keeper of a lodging-house, under these regulations, shall admit or suffer to
remain in such house, or in any room thereof, more than one lodger or other person to
each and every 300 cubic feet of air contained in such house or room.
6—Two children, under ten years of age, to be counted as one lodger.
7—All persons above ten years of age to be considered as adults.
8—Adults of different sexes shall not occupy the same sleeping-room, except
married couples.
9—Rooms in the basement, or below the level of the ground, shall not be used as
sleeping-rooms, unless specially approved of for that purpose by the Board of Works,
or their authorized officer. Such approval, when given, shall state the number of
persons or lodgers to be allowed (according to the circumstances of each case) to sleep
in each room.
10—The keeper of such lodging-house shall, as soon as he is aware that any
person in such house is ill of Fever, Small-pox, Cholera, or any infectious or contagious
disease, give immediate notice in writing to the Board of Works, which notice shall be
left at the office of the Board, No. 15, Great Alie-street, Whitechapel.
11—A certificate, according to the form B in the schedule to these regulations,
signed by the Clerk of the Board of Works, stating the entire number of lodgers
allowed to sleep in each such lodging-house, and each room of such house, and which
number such house is registered to accommodate, will be supplied to the keeper of
every house registered under these regulations.
3—For the inspection of such houses, and the keeping the same in a
cleanly and wholesome state.
12—The keeper of any lodging-house, and every other person having or acting in
the care or management thereof, and all occupiers thereof, or of any part thereof, shall,
at all reasonable times, when required by any authorized officer of the Board of Works,
give him free access to such house, or any part thereof, so far as his or their control
extends, for the purpose of inspecting the same, and ascertaining that it is kept in a
cleanly and wholesome state, and that the regulations relating to the same are duly
observed.
4—For enforcing therein the provisions of privy accommodation and
other appliances, and means of cleanliness in proportion to the
number of lodgers and occupiers, and the cleansing and ventilation
of the common passages and stair-cases.
13—A water-closet or privy, properly trapped and panned to the satisfaction of the
Board of Works, or their authorized officer, and communicating with the sewer, shall
be provided for every such lodging-house, and if the number of lodgers or occupiers
shall exceed twenty-five, an additional water-closet or privy of similar kind shall be
provided, and all privies are to be enclosed with a sufficient door.