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(6.) Where the rent or charge payable by each lodger, and inclusive of any charge for
the use by such lodger of any furniture, is at a rate of seven shillings per week or
upwards.
(a.) For fixing the number of 'persons who may occupy a house or part of a
house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than two
families;
(b.) For the registration of houses so let or occupied:
(c.) For the inspection of such houses:
(d.) For enforcing drainage for such houses, and for promoting cleanliness and
ventilation in such houses:
(e.) For the cleansing and lime-washing at stated times of the premises:
(f) For the taking of precautions in case of any infectious disease.
3. The landlord of a lodging-house, or a lodger therein, shall not knowingly cause or
suffer a greater number of persons than will admit of the provision of three hundred cubic
feet of 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 is under the control of such landlord, or which has been let to such
lodger, respectively, as the case may be.
4. The landlord of a lodging-house, or a lodger therein, 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 is under the control of such landlord, or which has been let to such lodger,
respectively, as the case may be.
5. The landlord of a lodging-house, within a period of fourteen days after he shall have
been required by notice in writing, signed by the Clerk to the Sanitary Authority, and duly
served upon or delivered to such landlord, to supply the information necessary for the
registration of such house by the Sanitary Authority, shall, himself, or by his agent duly