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Report oj the Medical Officer of Health.
"The space, if any, beneath the floor of such room
shall be provided with adequate means of ventilation.
"(e) Every drain passing under any such room shall
be properly constructed of a gas-tight pipe.
"(/) Such room shall be effectually protected against
the rising of any effluvia or exhalation by means of a layer
of good cement concrete at least six inches thick laid upon
the soil of the site of the entire room or in some other
equally effectual manner.
"(g) Every such room which is without a fireplace,,
and a flue properly constructed and properly connected
with such fireplace, shall be provided with special and
adequate means of ventilation by a sufficient aperture or
air shaft, which shall provide an unobstructed sectional
area of 100 square inches at the least.
"(h) Such room shall have one or more windows
opening directly into the external air, with a total area
clear of the sash frames equal to at least one-tenth of the
floor area of the room, and so constructed that one half
at least of every such window can be opened, and that the
opening may in every case extend to the top of the window.
"The Common Seal of the Council
was by order of the Council
affixed this Third day of
May, iqn, in the presence of
HEX. GEO. HILLS,
Town Clerk
" The consent of the Local Government Board is
hereby given to the foregoing Regulations
this Nineteenth day of May, 191 x.
H. C. MONRO,
Secretary.
"Acting on behalf of the said Board under
the authority of their General Order, dated
the Twenty-sixth day of May, 1877."