ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887. 2197
Public Health.
70. If any tenement- house, or domestic building, or portion thereof, Steps to be
taken to abate
shall be found to be in an overcrowded condition , the Board shall , by a overcrowding.
written notice, require the tenant of the same, or any portion thereof, and
also, if necessary, the house-holder, to abate such overcrowding, within a
period of one calendar month ; such notice shall specify the cubic capacity
available for habitation in such tenement-house, or other domestic build
ing, and the number of persons which may be legally accommodated
therein . If the said notice be not obeyed , it shall be lawful for the said
Board to apply to a Magistrate, who , on sufficient cause shewn , shall
summon before him the tenant or occupier of such dwelling house , or
such householder.
If the person summoned admits , or if it be proved to the satisfaction Magistrate
may make
of the said Magistrate that the said house is overcrowded , the Magistrate order.
shall make an order for the abatement of the nuisance forthwith .
On the hearing of the said matter, the Magistrate may make such Inspection.
order for the inspection, at any hour of the night or day, of the said house ,
as the circumstances of the case may require. Such order to continue in
force for a period not exceeding one month .
71. Any room of a tenement -house used as a common kitchen , shall Common
kitchen not
not be used as a sleeping room, and the householder, or tenant thereof, to be used as
sleeping
shall be responsible that such common kitchen is not so used , nor shall . rooms.
any passage, lobby, or other place, partitioned off from any sleeping
room to the height of the ceiling, be included in the calculation of the
cubic capacity available for human habitation .
72. In the calculation of cubic space, for the purposes of the four Children of
ten years .
preceding sections, two children ten years , 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.
73. No person shall open, or keep open , a common lodging -house, Lodging
houses.
unless the house is registered , and the keeper thereof is licensed by the
Registrar General . [ Amended by Ordinance No. 26 of 1890. ]
74. No person who shall erect a domestic building shall allow the Domestic
buildings.
same or any portion thereof to be occupied, until such building shall
have been previously examined by an officer of the Board , duly authorised
by the Board, and certified by such officer as having been built in com
pliance with the entire provisions of this Ordinance.