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London County Council. x
By-laws made by the London County Council under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
By-laws under Section 39 (1).
With respect to waterclosets, earthclosets, privies, ashpits, cesspools, and
receptacles for dung, and the proper accessories thereof in connection
with buildings, whether constructed before or after the passing of this Act.
Waterclosets
and
earthclosets.
1. Every person who shall hereafter construct a watercloset or earthcloset in
connection with a building, shall construct such watercloset or earthcloset in such a
position that, in the case of a watercloset, one of its sides at the least shall be an external
wall, and in the case of an earthcloset two of its sides at the least shall be external walls,
which external wall or walls shall abut immediately upon the street, or upon a yard or
garden or open space of not less than one hundred square feet of superficial area, measured
horizontally at a point below the level of the floor of such closet. He shall not construct
any such watercloset so that it is approached directly from any room used for the purpose
of human habitation, or used for the manufacture, preparation, or storage of food for man,
or used as a factory, workshop, or workplace, nor shall he construct any earthcloset so
that it can be entered otherwise than from the external air.
He shall construct such watercloset so that on any side on which it would abut on
a room intended for human habitation, or used for the manufacture, preparation, or
storage of food for man, or used as a factory, workshop, or workplace, it shall be
enclosed by a solid wall or partition of brick or other materials, extending the entire
height from the floor to the ceiling.
He shall provide any such watercloset that is approached from the external air
with a floor of hard smooth impervious material, having a fall to the dojr of such watercloset
of half an inch to the foot.
He shall provide such watercloset with proper doors and fastenings.
Provided always that this by-law shall not apply to any watercloset constructed
below the surface of the ground and approached directly from an area or other open space
available for purposes of ventilation, measuring at least forty superficial feet in extent,
and having a distance across of not less than five feet, and not covered in otherwise than
by a grating or railing.
2. Every person who shall construct a watercloset in connection with a building,
whether the situation of such watercloset be or be not within or partly within such
building, and every person who shall construct an earthcloset in connection with a building,
shall construct in one of the walls of such watercloset or earthcloset which shall abut
upon the public way, yard, garden, or open space, as provided by the preceding by-law, a
window of such dimensions that an area of not less than two square feet, which may
be the whole or part of such window, shall open directly into the external air.
He shall, in addition to such window, cause such watercloset or earthcloset to
be provided with adequate means of constant ventilation by at least one air-brick built
in an external wall of such watercloset or earthcloset, or by an air-shaft, or by some other
effectual method or appliance.
Waterclosets.
8. Every person who shall construct a watercloset in connection with a building,
shall furnish such watercloset with a cistern of adequate capacity for the purpose of flashing,
which shall be separate and distinct from any cistern used for drinking purposes, and shall
be so constructed, fitted, and placed as to admit of the supply of water for use in such
watercloset so that there shall not be any direct connection between any service pipe
upon the premises and any part of the apparatus of such watercloset other than such
flushing cistern.
Provided always that the foregoing requirement shall be deemed to be complied
with in any case where the apparatus of a watercloset is connected for the purpose of
flushing with a cistern of adequate capacity, which is used solely for flushing waterclosets
or urinals.
He shall construct or fix the pipe and union connecting such flushing cistern
with the pan, basin, or other receptacle with which such watercloset may be provided, so
that such pipe and union shall not in any part have an internal diameter of less than one
inch and a quarter.