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Paddington 1891
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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REPORT, 1891-92. 39
ing ten years, to occupy at any one time, as a sleeping
apartment, a room which is used exclusively for that
purpose.
9.—The landlord of a lodging-house shall not
knowingly cause or suffer a greater number of persons
than will admit of the provision of four hundred cubic
feet of free air space for each person of an age exceeding
ten years, and of two hundred cubic feet of free air
space for each person of an age not exceeding ten
years, to occupy, at any one time, as a sleeping apartment,
a room which is not used exclusively for that
purpose.
10.—A lodger in a lodging-house shall not knowingly
cause or suffer a greater number of persons than
will admit of the provision of three hundred cubic feet
free air space for each person of an age exceeding ten
years, and of one hundred and fifty cubic feet of free
air space for each person of an age not exceeding ten
years, to occupy, at any one time, as a sleeping apartment,
a room which is used exclusively for that purpose,
and which has been let to such lodger.
11.—A lodger in a lodging-house shall not knowingly
cause or suffer a greater number of persons than
will admit of the provision of four hundred cubic feet of
free air space for each person of an age exceeding ten
years, and of two hundred cubic feet of free air space
for each person of an age not exceeding ten years, to
occupy, at any one time, as a sleeping apartment, a
room which is not used exclusively for that purpose,
and which has been let to such lodger.