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g. All rooms, passages, and staircases shall
be washed and swept at least twice a week; all
paved yards and areas shall be washed and cleansed
at least once a month; all closets, sinks, and drains
shall be kept clean, and free from filth; all cisterns
and other receptacles for water shall be kept covered,
and shall be cleansed at least once in every two months;
and all dust-bins shall be emptied at least once a
week.
10. No animals, save ordinary domestic animals,
shall be kept in any lodging house; and these provided
only they are so kept as to be neither a nuisance nor
injurious to health.
11. No offensive trades, and no offensive accumulations,
shall be allowed.
12. It shall be the duty of the person letting
lodgings to furnish each of his sub-tenants with a copy
of this code of Regulations, and to make him acquainted
with its provisions.
13. The Medical Officer of Health shall have
free entrance at all times to every room of every
registered lodging-house; and the Sanitary Inspector,
or other authorised officer of the Vestry, shall
have free entrance between the hours of 8 a.m. and
10 p.m.; but between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8
a.m. only on presenting a written order signed by