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18. No draw-tap shall in future be fixed unless the same shall be sound and
suitable and of the "screw-down" kind.
19. Every draw-tap in connection with any "stand-pipe" or other apparatus
outside any dwelling-house in a court or other public place, to supply any gr< up
or number of such dwelling-houses, shall be sound and suitable, and of the " wastepreventer
" kind, and be protected as far as possible from injury by frost, theft, or
mischief.
20. Every boiler, urinal, and watercloset in which water supplied by the
Company is used (other than waterclosets in which hand flushing is employed)
shall, within three months after these regulations come into operation, be served
only through a cistern or service-box-and without a stool-cock, and there shall be
no direct communication from the pipes of the Company to any boiler, urinal, or
watercloset.
21. Every watercloset-cistern or watercloset-servicebox hereafter fitted or
fixed in which water supplied by the Company is to be used shall have an efficient
waste-preventing apparatus, so constructed as not to be capable of discharging
more than two gallons of water at each flush.
22. Every urinal-cistern in which water supplied by the Company is used,
other than public urinal-cisterns, or cisterns having attached to them a self-closing
apparatus, shall have an efficient " waste-preventing " apparatus, so constructed as
not to be capable of discharging more than two gallons of water at each flush.
23. Every "down pipe" hereafter fixed for the discharge of water into the
pan or basin of any watercloset shall have an internal diameter of not less than
one inch and a-quarter, and if of lead shall weigh not less than nine pounds to
every lineal yard.
24. No pipe by which water is supplied by the Company to any watercloset
shall communicate with any part of such watercloset, or with any apparatus connected
therewith, except the service-cistern thereof.
25. No bath supplied with water by the Company shall have any overflow
waste-pipe, except it be so arranged as to act as a " warning-pipe."
26. In every bath hereafter fitted or fixed the outlet shall be distinct from,
and unconnected with, the inlet or inlets; and the inlet or inlets must be placed
so that the orifice or orifices shall be above the highest water level of the bath.
The outlet of every such bath shall be provided with a perfectly water-tight plug,
valve, or cock.
27. No alteration shall be made in any fittings in connexion with the supply
of water by the Company without two days' previous notice in writing to the
Company.
28. Except with the written consent of the Company, no cock, ferrule, joint,
union, valve, or other fitting, in the course of any " communication pipe," shell
have a waterway of less area than that of the "communication pipe," so that the
waterway from the water in the district pipe or other supply pipe of the Company
up to and through the stop valve prescribed by Regulation No. 12 shall not in any
part be of less area than that of the "communication pipe" itself, which pipe
shall not be of less than a half-inch bore in all its course.