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another if more than forty persons, and so on in proportion.
12. Every house shall be properly drained with a
sufficient drain communicating with some sewer, and every
drain shall be provided with efficient immoveable traps at
each entrance to the drain. No roof, gutter, or rain water
pipe shall be used for oarrying off slops or refuse.
13. Every water closet shall be provided with pan,
trap, and with a properly acting water apparatus to be fixed
within the receptacle supplying water, and the floor, walls,
and pans thereof shall be kept free from filth and clean in
all other respects, and the water closet limewhited twice in
every year, in the months of April and September, and
such water closets shall be properly disinfected when
ordered by the Medical Officer of Health.
14. The yards and areas of every such house shall
be properly drained and every drain provided with efficient
immoveable traps, and paved so as to run dry, and
effectually take off all waste water.
15. Every registered house, and every room thereof,
shall be open to the Medical Officer of Health, and any
other officer of the Vestry appointed for the inspection
thereof, between the hours of Eight o'Clock a.m. and Ten
o'Clock p.m. And when there is reason to believe that the
regulations respecting the number of persons to be allowed
to sleep in such house or room are infringed, then it shall
be lawful for any two such officers, acting together, to
visit any such house or room between the hours of Ten
p.m. and Eight a m.
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