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their highest part, and elsewhere, to the satisfaction of
the officer appointed by the Vestry for inspecting such
houses.
8. Whenever an inmate of any such house shall be
attacked with fever, scarlet fever, small-pox, cholera, or
other infections disease, the owner shall forthwith give
notice to the Vestry Clerk, at the Vestry Hall, Piccadilly.
9. The owner of every such house shall provide such
accommodation for washing, and such a supply of water
for the use of the lodgers, with proper covered receptacles
and apparatus above ground, as shall be satisfactory to the
Medical Officer of Health. The receptacles shall be of
such size as to give at least fifteen gallons a day to each
inmate of such house, and be unconnected with any water
closet.
10. Every such house shall be furnished with a
covered dust bin of sufficient size to contain the dust,
ashes, &c., that accumulate in the intervals of its being
cleared away, which shall not exceed one week; such dust
bin to be in the situation pointed out by the Medical
Officer of Health.
11. A water closet shall be provided in the yard of
every such house, or where a water closet cannot be so
provided, then outside or inside the house in the best
practicable situation. If it is desired that one water closet
should serve in common for two or more small houses, the
sanction of the Vestry must be previously obtained thereto.
For every house in which there are more than twenty
persons an additional water closet shall be provided, and