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APPENDIX VIII.
Regulations adopted by the Board for the future Management of
Cow-houses in St. Giles's District.
1. Every Cow-house shall be en the ground level. Cow-houses under
inhabited rooms, or in immediate proximity to sleeping-rooms, cannot
be permitted.
2. Every Cow-house shall give to each cow a space 12 X 6 superficial
feet, exclusive of gangway and channel. The cubic space for each
cow shall in no case be less than 1300 cubic feet.
3. Every Cow-house shall be well lighted, and well ventilated, both in
summer and winter.
4. The paving must be uniform, and the channels behind (he cows must
be of Yorkshire stone or of sound brick-work in cement, of the
width of 2 feet 6 inches, at the least, sloping towards the entrance of
the drain.
5. Dung pits shall be constructed of York stone sides and bottoms, set
and jointed in cement, and shall be provided with proper drains.
Dung shall be removed from the premises, where there are upwards
of 10 cows, daily ; where there are less than 10 cows, every second
day ; and always before 8 o'clock in the morning.
6. The Sheds shall be swept and thoroughly cleansed at least twice a
day, and the yard once a day. Every part of the cow-houses and
yard shall be lime-whited twice in the year.
7. Every Cow-house and yard shall be provided with underground pipe
drains to the public sewer, furnished with efficient traps at their
entrances.
8. Every Cow-house shall be supplied with water at the highest part of
the channel in each shed.
9. There shall be two covered pits or receptacles, properly drained, for
the stowage of grains ; or if there be one pit, it shall be divided by
a partition, and each part shall be properly drained. Grains and
other food shall not be kept so as to become offensive.