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40 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
12.— No room shall be occupied as a living or
sleeping room without it has one or more windows
opening directly into the external air, with a total area,
clear of the sash frames, equal to at least one-tenth of
the floor area of the room, and so constructed that the
sashes thereof shall open from top to bottom—from sill
to head of such window or windows. No room shall be
occupied as a living or sleeping room without it has a
fire-place and flue unobstructed, or an otherwise
efficient mode of ventilation to approval of Sanitary
Authority.
For enforcing the Drainage of such Houses, and for
promoting Cleanliness and Ventilation in such
Houses.
13.—The landlord of a registered lodging-house
shall, to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Authority,
cause every court and courtyard immediately adjoining
or contiguous to the walls of such house to be properly
paved with a hard, durable, and impervious pavement,
evenly and closely laid upon a sufficient bed of good
concrete and sloped to a properly constructed channel
leading to a trapped gulley-grating, which shall be so
constructed and placed as effectually to carry off all
rain or waste water from such court or courtyard.
He shall cause such pavement, channel, and grating
to be kept at all times in good order and in proper
repair.
11.—In every case where a lodger in a registered
lodging-house is entitled to the exclusive use of any