2190
Premises - overcrowded.
Proclamation
to extend to waters of the Colony.
Drains.
↑ See Ord. No. 15 of 1889, sccr. 73, 74.]
Materials to be used for drains..
Sizes and falls of drains.
ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.
Public Health.
recently suffered from or died of any such disease, or that necessity may otherwise exist for executing in relation to such premises any of such bye-laws.
37. When any such proclamation is in force, and evidence upon any that the Board may deem sufficient that any premises are so overcrowded as to be injurious to health, the Board shall have power to make such order as it shall see fit to abate such overcrowding, and the house-holder, tenant, or occupier of such premises who shall permit such overcrowding to continue after such order shall have been served on him, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day during which such overcrowding shall continue, and in default of payment he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding three months.
38. All proclamations of the Governor in Council for executing the provisions contained in sections 32 to 37 of this Ordinance, both inclusive, shall extend to the waters of the Colony, and the Board may issue, under the said proclamations, by virtue of the provisions of section 32, bye-laws for vacating, cleansing, purifying, and ventilating vessels.
PART III.
39. Every owner of a new building erected within the city of Victoria shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty, at a point in the upper half-diameter of such sewer.
40. Every owner of a new building within the city of Victoria shall, in the construction of every drain of such building, use good sound pipes, formed of cast iron, jointed with lead, or hard, well glazed, stone-ware socketted pipes, jointed water-tight in cement mortar composed of at least one part of good cement to three equal parts of clean sand. Black bricks shall not be used in the construction of any house-drains intended for the conveyance of sewage. Red bricks may be used, provided they are hard and sound, and that they are set in cement mortar of the foregoing description, and that the interior surface of the drain is also smoothly rendered with the same mortar. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 26 of 1890.]
41. Every owner shall cause every such drain to be of adequate size, such size to be approved by the Board, and in no case to be less than six inches internal diameter. Where the ground is soft, such drain shall be laid in a bed of good lime concrete.