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Appendix E.
Corporation of London.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
BYE-LAWS made by the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens
of the City of London, herein referred to as "the Corporation,"
under Section 54 of the City of London (Various Powers)
Act, 1900, with respect to Water-Closets, Earth-Closets,
Privies, Ashpits, Cesspools and Receptacles for Dung, and
the proper Accessories thereof in connection with Buildings.
1. Every person who shall intend to construct a water-closet, or to
connect or disconnect any water-closet from any soil pipe or drain, shall at
least seven days before the work is to be commenced, deliver or send, or
cause to be delivered or sent to the Corporation ( Public Health Department),
at the Guildhall, a plan showing the situation of such water-closet
drawn to a scale of 8 feet to one inch, and a section showing the means of
ventilation.
Application and
Plan, &c.
2. (1) Every person who shall hereafter construct a water-closet in connection
with a building shall construct such water-closet in such a position that one
of its sides at the least shall be an external wall, which external wall shall
abut immediately upon the street, or upon a yard or garden or open space
of not less than fifty square feet of superficial area, measured horizontally at
a point below the level of the floor of such closet.
Situation and
approach of W.C.
Provided always that these requirements shall not apply to any water-closet
constructed below the surface of the ground and approached directly from any
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.
W.C.'s exempt
from bye-laws.
(2) He shall not construct any such water-closet so that it is approached
directly from any room used for the purpose of human habitation, or where
any person or persons are employed, or used for the manufacture, preparation,
or storage of food for man, or as a factory, workshop, or workplace, except
where any other mode of construction may be impracticable. In any such
excepted case he shall so construct such water-closet that it shall be approached
through a lobby, corridor, or landing properly ventilated to the external air.
(3) He shall construct such water-closet so that on any side on which it
would abut on a room intended for human habitation, or where any person or
persons are employed, 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, at least 2 inches thick,
extending the entire height from the floor to the ceiling.
Enclosing walls
or partitions.
* The marginal notes do not form part of the Bye-laws