Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

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Local Government Board may empower sanitary authority to make byelaws as to lodging-houses.

100. The Local Government Board may, if they think fit, by notice published in the Dublin Gazette, and in some newspaper or newspapers circulating in the district, declare the following enactment to be in force within the district or any part of the district of any sanitary authority, and from and after the publication of such notice such authority shall be empowered to make byelaws for the following matters; (that is to say,)

(1.) For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family, and for the separation of the sexes in a house so let or occupied;

(2.) For the registration of houses so let or occupied:

(3.) For the inspection of such houses:

(4.) For enforcing drainage and the provision of privy accommodation for such houses, and for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in such houses:

(5.) For the cleansing and limewashing at stated times of the premises, and for the paving of the courts and courtyards thereof:

(6.) For the giving of notices and the taking of precautions in case of any infectious disease.