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16. Every house shall have a proper and sufficient
supply of water; and the cisterns or other
receptacles shall be properly covered, and in all respects
satisfactory to the Medical Officer of Health.
17. A properly constructed, panned, and
trapped water-closet, with properly acting waterapparatus,
and drained into the sewer shall, if possible,
be provided outside the house; or, if in the house,
one at least of its sides shall be an external wall. If,
when the number of inmates exceeds twenty, it
appears to the Medical Officer of health that further
privy accommodation is required, an additional
water-closet, or additional water closets, shall be
provided.
18. All sinks and drains shall be properly
trapped and kept in good repair. No closet-drain
shall discharge itself into a rain-water pipe. No rainwater
pipe shall be carried underground, or open directly
into a drain. No waste-water or over-flow pipe from
any cistern or water-receptacle, supplying water used for
domestic purposes, shall open directly into any drain, or
communicate directly with any closet. Neither (if it be
possible to avoid it) shall any pipe from a sink within
the house be carried directly into any drain.
19. All cellars, yards, and areas shall be
properly paved and drained.