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Fulham 1893

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1893

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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.
He shall furnish such watercloset with a suitable apparatus
for the effectual application of water to any pan, basin, or other
receptacle with which such apparatus may be connected and
used, and for the effectual flushing and cleansing of such pan,
basin, or other receptacle, and for the prompt and effectual
removal therefrom and from the trap connected therewith of any
solid or liquid filth which may from time to time be deposited
therein.
He shall furnish such watercloset with a pan, basin, or other
suitable receptacle of non-absorbent material, and of such shape,
of such capacity, and of such mode of construction as to receive
and contain a sufficient quantity of water, and to allow all filth
which may from time to time be deposited in such pan, basin, or
receptacle, to fall free of the sides thereof and directly into the
watei received and contained in such pan, basin, or receptacle.
He shall not construct or fix under such pan, basin, or
receptacle, any "container" or other similar fitting.
He shall construct or fix immediately beneath or in
connection with such pan, basin, or other suitable receptacle, an
efficient syphon trap, so constructed that it shall at all times
maintain a sufficient water seal between such pan, basin, or other
suitable receptacle and any drain or soil pipe in connection therewith.
He shall not construct or fix in or in connection with the
watercloset apparatus any D trap or other similar trap.
If he shall construct any watercloset or shall fix or fit any
trap to any existing watercloset or in connection with a soil pipe,