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Every room, used or suitable for use for human habitation, the
surface of the floor of which is more than three feet below the
surface of the part of the Street adjoining or nearest the room,
or more than three feet below the surface of any ground within
nine feet of the room, shall comply with the following regulations,
that is to say: -
Drainage
1. The subsoil of the site of the room shall be effectually
drained wherever the dampness of the site renders this
necessary.
2. No subsoil drain shall discharge into a soil drain
except through a suitable trap.
3. Every drain passing through the room, and every
drain or sewer passing under the room other than a subsoil
drain, shall be gastight and watertight.
Floors
4. The floor of the room shall be of such material or
materials and construction as adequately to resist the passage
of moisture or exhalation from the ground.
Walls
5. The walls of the room shall either be of such material
and construction, or shall have been so treated, as adequately
to resist the passage of moisture to their inner surface, or to
any timber or other material forming part of the building that
would be harmfully affected by dampness.
Ventilation and Lighting
6. The room shall have a window or windows as specified
in paragraph (i) of this regulation for the purposes of ventilation,
and in paragraph (ii) for the purposes of lighting:-
(i) One or more windows which can be opened at the
top directly into the external air to an extent
equivalent in aggregate area to not less than onetwentieth
of the area of the floor of the room.
(ii) One or more windows having an aggregate area clear
of the window frame amounting to not less than onetenth
of the area of the floor of the room, and so