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Water supply on the several floors of tenement houses.
The following Section of the London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1907, requires the provision of a proper water supply on the
several floors of a house when the said floors are let to separate families.
I give the Section in full:—
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1907.
Section 78.
(As to supply of water in tenement houses).
For the purposes of section 48 (Provisions as to house without
proper water supply) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, a
tenement house shall be deemed to be a house without a proper and
sufficient supply of water unless there shall be provided on the storey
or one of the storeys in which the rooms or lodgings in the separate
occupation of each family occupying such house are situate a sufficient
provision for the supply of water for domestic purposes:
Provided that with respect to any building existing and in use
as a tenement house at the passing of this Act this Section shall not
(A) come into operation until the first day of January one thousand
nine hundred and eight, or (B) apply where the only storey or storeys
on which a proper or sufficient supply of water is not provided is or
are a storey or storeys (i) constructed at a height exceeding that to
which the Metropolitan Water Board may for the time being be
required to furnish a supply of water for domestic purposes, and (ii)
to which a supply of water for such purposes is not at the passing of
this Act being furnished by the said board by agreement:
Provided also that this section shall not apply to any tenement
house in respect of which it can be shown that any such provision
for the supply of water as aforesaid is not reasonably necessary.