ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.
Public Health.
2197
taken to abate overcrowding.
70. If any tenement-house, or domestic building, or portion thereof, shall be found to be in an overcrowded condition, the Board shall, by a 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 building, 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 shown, shall summon before him the tenant or occupier of such dwelling house, or such householder.
Magistrate may make order. If the person summoned admits, or if it be proved to the satisfaction of the said Magistrate that the said house is overcrowded, the Magistrate shall make an order for the abatement of the nuisance forthwith.
On the hearing of the said matter, the Magistrate may make such 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 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 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 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.
Inspection. Common kitchen not to be used as sleeping rooms.
73. 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. [Amended by Ordinance No. 26 of 1890.]
74. No person who shall erect a domestic building shall allow the 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 compliance with the entire provisions of this Ordinance.
Domestic buildings.
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ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.
Public Health.
2197
taken to abate- overcrowding.
70. If any tenement-house, or domestic building, or portion thereof, Steps to be shall be found to be in an overcrowded condition, the Board shall, by a 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.
Magistrate
may make
If the person summoned admits, or if it be proved to the satisfaction 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 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 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 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 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.
Inspection.
Common kitchen not to be used as sleeping
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Children of ten years.
houses.
73. No person shall open, or keep open, a common lodging-house, Lodging- 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 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.
Domestic buildings.
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