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Waterclosets
and earthclosets.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
Bye-laws made by the London County Council under the
Public Health (London) Act. 1891.
Bye-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.
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 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 with in such building, and every