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14—The water-closet or privy, pan, seat, floor, and walls, shall be kept free from
filth, and clean in all other respects.
15—The roof, walls, and flooring of every such lodging-house, shall be kept in
tenantable repair.
16—Every such lodging-house shall be provided with a dust-bin, of sufficient size,
with a proper cover.
17—The courts, yards, and areas of every such lodging-house shall be sufficiently
paved with proper and suitable materials, and sufficiently drained so as to run dry and
effectually take of all waste or surface water.
18—All drains shall communicate with the common sewer, where such sewer is
within one hundred yards of the premises.
19—All drains and sinks shall be properly trapped so as effectually to prevent
effluvia arising therefrom.
20—The keeper of such lodging-house shall provide a sufficient supply of water
and proper receptacles for the storage thereof, for the use of the lodgers.
21—The keeper of such lodging-house shall cause all the walls and ceilings of every
room, and the stair-cases and passages of such house, to be thoroughly cleansed and
well and sufficiently limewashed, as often as occasion shall require.
22—The keeper of such lodging-house shall cause provision to be made, that every
room, and the passages, and stair-cases, in such house, or appurtenant thereto, may be
ventilated to the satisfaction of the Board of Works, or their authorized officer.
23—Any person wilfully and knowingly omitting to observe any of the foregoing
regulations, or wilfully and knowingly acting contrary thereto, shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding forty shillings for any one offence, with the additional penalty
not exceeding twenty shillings for every day during which a default in obeying such
regulations may continue.
24—The penalties recovered under these regulations may be recovered in a
summary manner, as directed by the Sanitary Act, 1866, and when recovered, shall go
to the Board of Works for the Whitechapel District, and shall be applicable towards
the general expenses of such Board.
SCHEDULE A. FORM OF NOTICE.
Take notice, that certain regulations have been duly made by the Board of Works
for the Whitechapel District, under the provisions of the Sanitary Act, 1866, and
approved by one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, for the registration
management and occupation of houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more
than one family, situate within the Whitechapel District, defined by the Metropolis
Local Management Acts ; and you being the keeper of the premises, No.
Street, in the Parish of within the said Whitechapel
District, so, as aforesaid, let or occupied, are hereby required, within six weeks from
this notice, to register such premises, at the office of the said Board of Works, No. 15,
Great Alie-street, Whitechapel, aforesaid, and if you do not have your premises so
registered, you will be liable to a penalty of forty shillings, with an additional penalty
of twenty shillings for every day during which such default shall continue. On your
applying to the Clerk to the said Whitechapel Board of W orks, at the office aforesaid,
your premises will be registered free of all charge to you.
Dated this day one thousand eight hundred and