[152.] Times, 20th November, 1883.
[153.] See his speech in Parliament, Hansard, 1884, vol. ccxc., p. 529.
[154.] Robert Reid (a Surveyor), p. 805.
[155.] The regulations suggested by the Local Government Board laid down that the landlord or owner should not allow a greater number of persons to occupy a room than would admit of free air space for each of 300 cubic feet—if used exclusively as a sleeping room—or 400 feet if used day and night.
He was to—
(1) Keep the drainage in good working order, to properly pave the yard, and provide sufficient sanitary accommodation.
(2) Keep the cisterns clean and in proper order, and keep the structure of ashpit in proper order.
(3) Cause the ceilings and walls of every room to be whitewashed and papered every April.
(4) Provide all requisite means for the ventilation of every room, and of the common passages and staircases thereof.
(5) To notify cases of infectious disease.
[156.] Royal Commission, 1884.
[157.] Hansard, 1884.
[158.] 1884 Royal Commission, vol. ii. p. 2938.
[159.] Ibid. p. 724.
[160.] Hansard, 1884, vol. cclxxxix. p. 41.
[161.] Hansard, 1884, vol. ccxc. p. 541.