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enforced in all new cow-sheds and dairies, hut on which it would
not be expedient to insist in the case of all cow-sheds and dairies
at present established."
CLASS I.
1.Every cow-shed shall be properly lighted and ventilated by louvred
sky or side-lights.
2. Every person occupying a cow-shed shall cause the inner walla to
be covered with hard, smooth, impervious material to the height
of five feet, at the least, from the floor, and the doors and other
wood work, excepting the divisions between the stalls, to be
thoroughly well painted.
3. Every person occupying a cow-shed shall cause it to be well paved
with asphalte, iron-stone bricks, or flag-stones, set in cement, on
a bed of concrete, and laid with a proper slope and channel
towards a gulley, which shall be situated outside the shed;
and which shall be properly trapped and connected with the
public sewer by an adequate drain of glazed pipes.
4. Every person occupying a cow-shed shall cause it to be provided
with a trough manger, constructed of some hard impervious
material, and sufficiently sloped to allow it to be readily cleansed
by flushing.
5. Every person occupying a cow-shed shall cause it to be provided
with an adequate and properly constructed receptacle, made of
impervious material, for the supply of water, which shall be
closely covered, and provided with an overflow or warning pipe
unconnected with any drain: the receptacle to be so placed
that the bottom thereof shall not be less than six feet above the
floor level. The water to be of good quality, and to be procured
from a public water company, where practicabe. (The use of
shallow-well water should be strictly prohibited).
6. Every person occupying a cow-shed shall provide a proper place for
the storage of fodder, and, if brewer's grains be used as food, a
covered receptacle made of impervious material for the storage of
the grains shall be provided, such receptacle to be situated outside
the cow-shed, to be properly drained, and to be sub-divided
into two parts by a partition, so that each part may be thoroughly
cleansed in turn, and be kept free from any offensive smell.
7. Every person occupying a cow-shed shall provide a proper covered
place or receptacle outside the shed for the reception of dung and
other refuse ; the bottom thereof to be constructed of flag-stones or
cement laid on concrete, and the sides to be constructed of flagstones,
or brick lined with cement.
8. Every person occupying a cow-shed shall cause all needful work to
the premises to be forthwith done and executed, and shall not
allow any alteration to be made in respect of the paving, drainage,
water supply, or ventilation to or in the premises, without the consent
of the local sanitary authority.
9. No person occupying a cow-shed shall allow any water-closet, privy,
cesspool, or urinal, to be within, or to communicate directly with
such cow-shed.
10. No person occupying a cow-shed shall allow any inhabited room, or
workshop, to be situ ated over it on any pretext whatever.
11. Every person occupying a cow-shed shall keep in it only such number
of cows as shall be specified on his licence; the space for each cow
shall not be less than 800 cubic feet; no height of the shed in excess
of sixteen feet shall be taken into account in estimating the
cubic space. The stalls for single cows shall not be less than four