A.D. 1901.]
PUBLIC HEALTH.
899
[No. 10.
78. Any room of a tenement-house which is used as a common kitchen shall not be used as a sleeping room, and the householder or tenant thereof shall be responsible that such common kitchen is not so used; nor shall any passage, lobby, or other place partitioned off from any room to the height of the ceiling be included in the calculation of the cubic capacity for human habitation.
79. In the calculation of cubic space for the purposes of this Ordinance, two children of or under ten years of age shall be counted as one person and every person over ten years of age shall be considered as an adult.
80. No room fitted with bunks or beds shall be so fitted as thereby to provide sleeping accommodation for a greater number of persons than are by law permitted to occupy the room.
Common Lodging-houses.
Calculation of cubic space in case of children.
Limit of fittings for sleeping accommodation.
81-(1.) No person shall open or keep open a common lodging-house, unless the house is registered and the keeper thereof is licensed by the Registrar General.
(2.) If any person who opens or keeps open any common lodging-house contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance cannot be found, or if the keeper of any common lodging-house which is opened or kept open contrary to the provisions aforesaid is absent from the Colony, the householder as defined by this Ordinance shall be deemed to be the person who opens or keeps open such house and shall be liable accordingly.
82. Every person who, in making application for the registration or licensing of a common lodging-house, knowingly makes any false statement regarding any of the particulars required to be stated in such application shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
83.-(1.) The keeper of a common lodging-house, and every other person acting in the care or management thereof, shall at all times, when required by any officer of the Board, give him free access to such house or any part thereof.
(2.) Any such keeper or person who refuses such access shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
Approval of Domestic Buildings.
Access of officer of Board to common lodging-house.
84. No person who erects a domestic building shall allow the same or any portion thereof to be occupied until such building has been previously examined by an officer of the Board, duly authorized by the Board, before occupation.
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