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(b) LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1908.
Section 7. As to Accommodation for Cooking of Food in Tenement Houses.
7. If at any time it appears to any sanitary authority that in any tenement
house within their district sufficient and suitable accommodation for the cooking
of food is not provided for the use of each family occupying such house on the
storey or one of the storeys in which are situate the rooms or lodgings in the
separate occupation of such family, such sanitary authority may cause notice to
be served on the owner of such house requiring him within such reasonable
time as may be specified in the notice to provide sufficient and suitable
accommodation for the purpose aforesaid, and any owner failing to comply
with any such requirement within the period prescribed in the notice shall be
liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and to
a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings :
Provided that this Section shall not apply to any tenement house used or
occupied as such before the passing of this Act.
(c) LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1909.
Section 16. As to accommodation for storage of Food.
16. If at any time it appears to any sanitary authority that in any tenement
house within their district sufficient and suitable accommodation for the storage
of food is not provided for the use of each family occupying such house on the
storey or one of the storeys in which are situated the rooms or lodgings in the
separate occupation of such family, the sanitary authority may, if the provision
of such accommodation is practicable, cause notice to be served on the owner of
such house requiring him within such reasonable time as may be specified in
the notice to provide sufficient and suitable accommodation for the purpose
aforesaid, and any owner failing to comply with such requirement within the
period prescribed in the notice shall be liable on summary conviction to a
penalty not exceeding forty shillings and to a daily penalty not exceeding
twenty shillings :
Provided that this section shall not apply to any tenement house used or
occupied as such before the passing of this Act.
(a) In regard to water supply, it may be be said that the installation of a
draw-off tap implies also the provision of a drip-sink to prevent or abate the
nuisance that is certain to occur from the dripping of the tap and the consequent
dampness, and perhaps flooding. The question therefore to be be decided is
—which is the lesser of two two evils, (1) the absence of water supply to a
flat or floor, or (2) the presence of a sink which will be used as a drip-sink, a
scullery sink, and a slop sink.
The waste-pipe of the sink must be properly trapped under the sink at the
inlet end of the pipe, and at its outlet-end must discharge directly into an
enclosed continuity with a main waste-pipe running externally on an outer
wall of the house from a point above the parapet or roof downwards, open at
both ends for ventilation, and the lower end discharging over the surface of
the water of a properly trapped gulley situated in the open air.