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Lodging Houses.
Common Lodging Houses to be registered.
Penalty on Neglect.
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LXVI. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful to keep any common public Lodging House unless the same be registered as next herein-after mentioned; and the Local Board of Health shall cause a Register to be kept, in which shall be entered the Name of every Person applying to register any common Lodging House kept by him, and the Situation of every such House; and the said Local Board shall from Time to Time make Bye Laws, for fixing the Number of Ledgers who may be received into each House so registered, for promoting Cleanliness and Ventilation therein, and with respect to the Inspection thereof, and the Conditions and Restrictions under which such Inspection may be made; and the Person keeping any such Lodging House shall give Access to the same when required by any Persons who shall produce the written Authority of the said Local Board in this Behalf, for the Purpose of inspecting the same, or for introducing or using therein any disinfecting Process, and the Expenses incurred by the said Local Board in so introducing or using any disinfecting Process shall be recoverable by them in a summary Manner from the Person keeping the Lodging House in which the same shall have been used or introduced; and whosoever shall receive Lodgers in any common Lodging House without having registered the same as required by this Act, or shall refuse to admit therein, at any Time between the Hour of Eleven in the Forenoon and the Hour of Four in the Afternoon, any Person authorized by the said Local Board as last aforesaid, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.
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