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LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
By-laws made by the London County Council under
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
By-Law under Section 39 (1).
With respect to waterclosets, earthclosets, privies, ashpits, cesspools,
and receptacles for dung, and the proper accessories
thereof in connection with buildings, whether constructed
before or after the passing of this Act.
Waterclosets
and earthclosets.
1. Every person who shall hereafter
struct a watercloset or earthcloset in connection with a
building, shall construct such watercloset or earthcloset in
such a position that, in the case of a watercloset, one of its
sides at the least shall be an external Avail, and in the case of
an earthcloset, two of its sides at the least shall be external
Avails, which external Avail or Avails shall abut immediately
upon the street, or upon a yard or garden or open space of
not less than one hundred square feet of superficial area,
measured horizontally at a point below the level of the floor
of such closet. He shall not construct any such Avatercloset
so that it is approached directly from any room used for the
purpose of human habitation, or used for the manufacture,
preparation, or storage of food for man, or used as a factory,
workshop, or workplace, nor shall he construct any earthcloset
so that it can be entered otherwise than from the
external air.