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St Giles (Camberwell) 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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He shall construct such watercloset so that on any side
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on which it would abut on a room intended for human habitation,
or used for the manufacture, preparation, or storage
of food for man, or used as a factory, workshop, or workplace,
it shall be enclosed by a solid wall or partition of brick or
other materials, extending the entire height from the floor
to the ceiling.
He shall provide any such watercloset that is approached
from the external air with a floor of hard, smooth, impervious
material, having a fall to the door of such watercloset of half
an inch to the foot.
He shall provide such watercloset with proper doors and
fastenings.
Provided always that this By-law shall not apply to any
watercloset constructed below the surface of the ground and
approached directly from an area or other open spacc available
for purposes of ventilation, measuring at least forty
superficial feet in extent, and having a distance across of not
less than five feet, and not covercd in otherwise than bv a
grating or railing.
2. Every person who shall construct a watercloset in
connection with a building, whether the situation of such
watercloset be or be not within or partly within such building,
and every person who shall construct an earthcloset in
connection with a building, shall construct in one of the
Avails of such watercloset or earthcloset which shall abut upon
the public way, yard, garden, or open space, as provided by
the preceding By-law, a window of such dimensions that an
area of not less than two square feet, which may be the whole
or part of such window, shall open directly into the external
air.