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ventilation of drains and soil-pipes, disconnection
of all rain-water pipes, approved water-closets
with suitable and efficient flushings from waterwaste
preventors ;
3. As to water supply—proper storage cisterns, as well
as taps from the rising main for drinking purposes ;
both, if possible, but if only one, the latter;
4. Refuse removal—properly ventilated dust-shoots
that do not open into living rooms, or other speedy
means of dust and refuse removal (e.g., bins or
otherwise).
Further, each tenement must be as far as possible a
"home" in itself, i.e., furnished with a separate sink, w.c.,
copper, dustbin, and other necessary sanitary appliances, and
independent of its neighbour. Suitable and sufficient
wash-house accommodation (? baths also) ought to be provided.
The Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health
Society (as the result of a Paper on the subject, read by
Dr. Priestley), adopted the following recommendations on
Feb. 12th, 1897
Certificate for Exemption from Inhabited
House Duty.
1. That in no case should a Medical Officer of Health
examine a house with a view to giving a Certificate
under these Acts, until he is absolutely satisfied—
as advised in the letter from the Local Government
Board, dated the 15th August, 1892— that the
house in question comes within the sections of the
Acts.
2. That a Certificate under these Acts should state that
the following requirements are complied with :