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to such drains, also with sinks, gullies, traps, inspection
chambers, w.c. apparatus, urinals, soil and ventilating pipes,
water supply and apparatus, and whatsoever fit and proper
works the Vestry or its officers may consider necessary for the
proper working of the drain.
No house or building hereafter erected or rebuilt shall be
occupied until the drains and other works to which these
regulations apply have been constructed and afterwards
approved by the Surveyor, or Sanitary Inspector appointed
for the purpose, nor until a sufficient and satisfactory water
supply has been provided in accordance with the requirements
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
No drain or any connected works or apparatus shall be
covered up until the same has been inspected by the
Surveyor or Sanitary Inspector, and it shall be the duty of
any person constructing such drains, etc., to give twentyfour
hours' notice (at least), stating the day and hour when
the drains, etc., will be ready for inspection.
Pipes.
All pipes used must be true in section and well glazed. All
joints must be made in neat Portland cement.
The whole of the drain where it passes under any building
shall be laid upon a bed of Portland cement concrete, and
be covered over and surrounded with a layer of Portland
cement concrete not less than six inches in thickness.
Care must be taken that all joints are thoroughly cleaned
off internally.
All new drains will, before being passed, be tested by the
Sanitary Inspector by the hydraulic, smoke, chemical, or
other test.
No right angled or straight out junctions shall be used, but
Y junctions only. All drains shall be laid as far as practicable
in straight lines and outside of the houses or buildings.
At all points of junction where it is necessary for the course
of the drain to be altered so as to be at or near a right