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City of London 1904

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London for the year 1904

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ware pipe or drain, making the joint with Portland or other equally
suitable cement; provided always that it shall be sufficient if he shall connect
the lead soil pipe, waste pipe, ventilating pipe or trap with the stoneware or
semi-vitrified ware pipe or drain in an equally suitable and efficient manner.
Connection of
iron soil pipe, &c.,
with stoneware
drain, &c.
10. Any person who shall connect an iron soil pipe, waste pipe, ventilating
pipe, or trap with the stoneware or semi-vitrified ware pipe or drain
communicating with a sewer, shall insert the beaded spigot end of such iron
soil pipe, waste pipe, ventilating pipe, or trap into a socket on such
stoneware or semi-vitrified ware pipe or drain, making the joint with
Portland or other equally suitable cement; provided always that it shall be
sufficient if he shall connect the iron soil pipe, waste pipe, ventilating pipe,
or trap with the stoneware or semi-vitrified ware pipe or drain in an equally
suitable and efficient manner.
Connection of
stoneware trap
of closet, &c.,
with iron soil
pipe, &c.
11. Any person who shall connect a stoneware or semi-vitrified ware
trap or pipe with an iron soil pipe, waste pipe, trap or drain communicating
with a sewer, shall insert such stoneware or semi-vitrified ware trap or pipe
into a socket on such iron soil pipe, waste pipe, trap or drain, making the
joint with Portland or other equally suitable cement ; provided always that it
shall be sufficient if he shall connect the stoneware or semi-vitrified ware
drain or pipe with the iron soil pipe, waste pipe, trap, or drain in an equally
suitable and efficient manner.
New fittings to
existing W.C.
12. A person who shall newly fit or fix any apparatus in connection
with any existing water-closet, shall, as regards such apparatus and its
connection with any soil pipe or drain, comply with such of the requirements
of the foregoing Bye-laws as would be applicable to the apparatus so fitted or
fixed if the water-closet were being newly constructed.
Situation of
receptacles
for dung.
13. A person shall not use as a receptacle for dung any receptacle so
constructed or placed that one of its sides shall be formed by the wall of
any room used for human habitation, or under a dwelling-house, factory,
workshop or workplace, and he shall not use any receptacle in such a situation
that it would be likely to cause a nuisance or become injurious or
dangerous to health.
Capacity of
receptacles.
14. (1) Every owner of any existing receptacle for dung shall, before the
expiration of six months from the date of the confirmation of these Bye-laws,
and every person who shall construct a receptacle for dung, shall cause such
receptacle to be so constructed that its capacity shall not be greater than two
cubic yards, and so that the bottom or floor thereof shall not in any case be
lower than the surface of the ground adjoining such receptacle.
Facilities for
cleansing
receptacle.
(2) He shall so construct such receptacle that a sufficient part of one of its
sides shall be readily removable for the purpose of facilitating cleansing.
Construction of
receptacle, &c.
(3) He shall also cause such receptacle to be constructed in such a manner
and of such materials, and to be maintained at all times in such a condition as to
prevent any escape of the contents thereof, or any soakage therefrom into the