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necessary for the registration of such house by the District
Board, shall personally, or by hi5 agent duly authorised in that
behalf, attend at the office of the District Board, situate at
Broadway House, Hammersmith, during office hours, and then
and there furnish and sign a true statement of the following
particulars with respect to such house, that is to say:—
(a) The total number of rooms in the house.
(b) The total number of rooms let in lodgings, or occupied
by members of more than one family.
(c) The manner of use of each room.
(d) The number, age, and sex of the occupants of each
room used as a bedroom.
Within a reasonable time after the receipt by the District
Board of the statement hereinbefore referred to, the Clerk to the
District Board shall register the lodging-house mentioned in such
statement in a book to be provided by the District Board, and
shall deliver or send notice of the registration to the owner of the
house.
For the purpose of this Regulation, "Landlord" means the
person by whom, or on whose behalf, a house is let in lodgings,
or for occupation by members of more than one family, or who
for the time being receives, or is entitled to receive, the profits
arising from such letting.
NUMBER OF LODGERS.
2. The keeper of a registered house shall not knowingly
suffer a greater number of persons to occupy any room in such
house, nor shall a lodger suffer any room under his control to be
occupied by a greater number of persons than will allow of air
space for each person according to the following rules:—
(а) The minimum space for each adult in any room in a
registered house which may be occupied as a bed
room only, shall be not less than 300 cubic feet.
(b) The minimum space for each adult in any room in a
registered house which may be occupied as a sitting
room, and as a bed room, shall be not less than 400
cubic feet.
(c) For the purposes of the foregoing rules, two children
under the age of 12 years may be counted as one
adult.
DRAINAGE.
3. The owner of a registered lodging-house shall keep all
apparatus provided for the drainage of the premises in proper
working order and good sanitary condition.