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any furniture, is at the rate of twelve shillings and
sixpence 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 one family.
{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 promoting
cleanliness and ventilation in such houses:
(e.) For the cleanliness and lime washing at stated times of the
premises:
(f.) For the tailing of precautions in case of any infectious disease.
As to air
space for
each Person
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.
Ditto.
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.
Information
to be given by
Landlord.
5. The landlord of a lodging-house, within a period of
fourteen days after he shall have been required by a 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 authorised
in that behalf, sign and furnish to the Sanitary Authority 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:
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