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Bye-laws for regulating the structure of the premises, which shall be complied with, a
regards all buildings now used for the business, before the expiration of 12 calendar
months from the date of the publication thereof; and as regards buildings to be used
hereafter, before the business shall be commenced therein.
14. Every Cat Gut Maker shall provide, or cause to be provided, upon the premises,
a chamber or chambers in which the offensive processes of the business are to be carried
on, and such chamber or chambers shall be constructed in the following manner, viz.:—
(a) The walls shall be of brick, stone, or concrete; and the walls and the
ceiling shall be constructed in such manner that the atmosphere of the close
chamber cannot escape into the external atmosphere.
(b) The windows or lights shall be of glass, not less than one-quarter of an
inch in thickness, and shall be fixed in the walls or roof in such a manner as not
to open, and to be air-tight, and such windows or lights shall be covered externally
with a wire netting.
(c) There shall be only one doorway in a close chamber, and the door thereto
shall be made to closely fit the doorway in such a manner that when shut the
atmosphere of a close chamber cannot escape through such doorway.
(d) The paving shall be asphalte, Yorkshire flagstone, Stourbridge paving
bricks, closely set in cement, upon a bottom of four inches of good concrete, or
other suitable material; and shall be laid with a proper slope and channel towards
a gully, and shall be effectually drained by an adequate drain of glazed pipes
communicating with the public sewer, and properly ventilated. The drain shall
be properly trapped, and be covered with a fixed grating, the bars of which shall
not be more than three-eights of an inch apart.
(e) The inner walls shall be covered with hard, smooth, impervious material,
to the height of four feet at the least; and such covering shall be always kept in
good order and ropair.
(f) There shall be provided one or more inlet valves for air, adequate for
supplying a sufficient quantity of fresh air from the outside of the chamber for
the persons employed and working therein, and so constructed as not to allow the
atmosphere of the chamber to escape thereby; and such valve or valves shall be
always kept in good working order and repair.
(g) There shall be provided a shaft to lead from the upper part of a close
chamber to a furnace, and such shaft shall be so constructed that any gas or air
drawn through the shaft shall be consumed in the furnace fire.
(h) There shall be no room or loft over any such chamber, other than a room
used solely for the purpose of the business; and such room shall be provided with
separate means of access from without, and shall not communicate directly or
indirectly with any close chamber.
15. Every Cat Gut Maker shall provide, or cause to be provided, upon tho premises
on which his business is carried on, machinery or appliances for effectually drawing tho
atmosphere from a close chamber or chambers, and from every room or place in which
any offensive vapour or gas may be evolved, through a shaft and into a furnace fire.
16. He shall cause all needful works and repairs to the premises to be forthwith done
and executed as and when the same shall become requisite, and shall not allow any
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