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London, of any district or parish included within the
Act for the better local government of the metropolis,
or of any municipal borough, or of any place under
the Local Government Act, 1858, or any local improvement
Act, or of any city or town containing,
according to the census for the time being in force,
a population of not less than five thousand inhabitants,
the Secretary of State may, as he may
think fit, by notice to be published in the London
Gazette, declare the following enactment to be in
force in the district of such nuisance authority, and
from and after the publication of such notice the
nuisance authority shall be empowered to make
regulations for the following matters; that is to say :
1. 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 one family.
"2. For the registration of houses thus let or
occupied in lodgings.
" 3. For the inspection of such houses, and the
keeping the same in a cleanly and wholesome
state
" 4 For enforcing therein the provision of privy
accommodation, and other appliances and
means of cleanliness, in proportion to the