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PUBLIC HEALTH . [ 24 of 1887. ] 1009


Bye-laws for licensing and regulating common lodging-houses made by the
Sanitary Board, under sub -section 12 of section 13 of Ordinance
No. 24 of 1887, and sub - section D of section 1 of Ordi
nance No. 26 of 1890, and approred by the Legis
lative Council the 22nd May , 1891 .
( Gazette 23rd May, 1891. )


1. A register of all common lodging -houses shall be kept by the Registrar Register.
General in the form of schedule A appended to these bye -laws.
2. Before a house can be registered as a common lodging -house, an Registration
application must be made to the Registrar General in the form of the sche- ofhouses.
dule B hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the
number of the rooms to be set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of
each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be
furnished by the Registrar General.
3. The Registrar General shall transmit each application for the registra Do ,

tion of a house as a common lodging -house to the Sanitary board, and the
board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected
by one or more of its officers who shall submit a report to the board on the
sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a common
lodging -house.
4. Any house to be registered as a common lodging -house must be sub Do.
stantially built and in a good state of repair, the floors must be paved with
tiles or cement concrete or with lime concrete rendered with one inch of
Portland cement or boarded with planks close jointed , and all the rooms
which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level
of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must
be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws regulating
house drainage, there must be adequate kitchen , ablution , privy, urinal and
ash -bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board ; and unless
when the supply of water is constant, there must be a proper cistern for the
storage of water.
5. When the Sanitary Board is satisfied that a house sought to be regis- Registration of
tered as a common lodging-house is suitable for such a purpose, it shall houses.
inform the Registrar General accordingly who may then register such house
as a common lodging -house,
6. Before any person can be licensed as a keeper of a common lodging- Licensing of
house, an application must be made to the Registrar General and such keepers .
application must be accompanied by a certificate of character from one or
more house -holders — to be approved of by the Registrar General,—who shall
give security for the carrying out of the regulations by the licensed keeper.
7. When the Registrar General is satisfied with the character of an Do.

applicant for a licence to keep a common lodging-house he may issue a licence
to such applicant accordingly.
8. The keeper of a common lodging-house shall reduce the number of False application
lodgers in any room of his common lodging-house upon receiving notice in for registration
writing from the Sanitary Board stating the cause for making such reduction ,
and the period for which it shall continue in force.