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is liable to a penalty not exceeding £5, and also to a further sum not exceeding
40s. for every day during which such offence shall continue, to be recovered
by action at iaw, or before a Justice of the Peace in a summary manner.
Extract* from the Bye-laws made by the London County Council under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
1.—Every person who shall hereafter construct a watercloset or earthcloset
in connection with a building, shall construct such watercloset or eartbcloset
in such a position that, in tho 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 door
of such watercloset of half an inch to the foot.
He shall provide such watercloset with proper doors and fastenings.
Provided always that this Bye-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 Bye-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 airshaft,
or by some other effectual method or appliauce.