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12. Every person who shall construct a privy in connection
with a building shall construct such privy for use in combination
with a movable receptacle for filth, and shall construct over the
whole area of the space immediately beneath the seat of such
privy a floor of flagging or asphalte or some suitable composite
material, at a height of not less than three inches above the level
of the surface of the ground adjoining such privy; and he shall
cause the whole extent of each side of such space between the
floor and the seat, other than any part that may be occupied by
any door or other opening therein, to be constructed of flagging,
slate, or good brickwork, at least nine inches thick, and rendered
in good cement or asphalted.
He shall construct the seat of each privy, the aperture in
such seat, and the space beneath such seat, of such dimensions
as to admit of a movable receptacle for filth of a capacity not
exceeding two cubic feet being placed and fitted beneath such
seat in such a manner and in such a position as may effectually
prevent the deposit, upon the floor or sides of the space beneath
such seat or elsewhere than in such receptacle, of any filth which
may from time to time fall or be cast through the aperture in
such seat.
He shall construct such privy so that for the purpose of
cleansing the space beneath the seat, or of removing therefrom
or placing or fitting therein an appropriate receptacle for filth,
there shall be a door or other opening in the back or one of the
sides thereof capable of being opened from the outside of the
privy, or in any case where such a mode of construction may be
impracticable, so that for the purposes aforesaid the whole of the
seat of the privy or a sufficient part thereof may be readily moved
or adjusted.
13. A person who shall construct a privy in connection
with a building shall not cause or suffer any part of the space
under the seat of such privy, or any part of any receptacle for
filth in or in connection with such privy, to communicate with
any drain.
14. Every person who shall intend to construct any
watercloset, earthcloset, or privy, or to fix or fit in or in connection
Water-closets,
Earth-closets,
and privies.