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"Your Committee have now only further to recommend that
the reports of the Inspectors be made through the Medical Officer
of Health, and that, by resolution of the Yestry, the Sanitary
Department be placed under the immediate control and direction
of that Officer.
"All which your Committee beg to submit."
" Appendix A.
"Instructions for the Guidance of the Sanitary Inspectors when
Inspecting Dwelling-houses.
"drainage.
"The drain to be water-tight; to be fitted with a clearing
pipe at the highest point, where practicable; and to be trapped
from the sewer, outside the house, by means of a syphon provided,
where practicable, with an access chamber thereto, having a fresh
air-inlet and an air-tight cover.
"The Drain to be Ventilated by the soil-pipe, and, where
directed, by a special ventilating-pipe, carried up above the roof
from the highest practicable portion of the drain.
"water-closets, &c.
"The Water-closet Accommodation to be adequate for the
number of inmates, and to be so placed as to admit of lighting
and ventilation from the outer air.
"The Soil-pipe to be Ventilated from its highest point, by
means of a pipe not less than three inches in internal diameter,
formed of lead or iron, with all joints made air-tight, and carried
up above the roof, as far as practicable from all windows, doors,
chimneys, or other openings.
"The Water Supply of the closet to be provided from a
separate cistern, or from a syphon flushing tank, having a capacity
of, at least, two gallons, and a down-pipe l¼ inches in diameter.
"water supply.
"The Water Supply to be adequate for the requirements of
the inmates.