ORDINANCE No. 24 of 1887.
Public Health.
(4.) The basement story of such new building consists of one single shop, the frontage of which shall face on a public thoroughfare, and shall be open to the external air from the floor to the ceiling along the whole extent of such frontage.
60. It shall not be lawful for any person, who shall have been allowed to erect any new building, kitchen, or outhouse, abutting against the hill-side, under the provisions of section 58, or sub-section 1 of section 59, or for any subsequent owner or tenant thereof, to use, or suffer to be used, at any subsequent period, the basement story of such new building, or such kitchen, or outhouse, for the purposes of human habitation.
61. Every person who shall, under the provisions of section 58 or 59, leave a clear intervening space or area between a new building and the hill-side, shall make the surface of the floor of such area at least twelve inches lower than the level of the basement floor of such new building, and he shall lay, to the full extent of such area, along the toe of the slope of the hill-side, and to a depth of at least twelve inches below the surface, a line of hard, sound, stone-ware field-pipes, of not less than three inches in diameter, for the purpose of effectually draining the sub-soil of such area, and he shall not cause such sub-soil drain to be passed out under the floor of any building, unless any other mode of outlet may be impracticable; and, in such case, he shall cause the sub-soil drain to be so laid under the ground floor of such new building, that there shall be a distance of at least nine inches between the top of such drain and the surface of such ground floor.
62. The floor of every area and of every basement story shall be properly asphalted, paved, or covered over, with a layer of good concrete at least nine inches thick and the floor of such area shall have a fall, from the external wall of such building towards the face of the hill-side, of at least half an inch to the foot.
63. Every area shall be kept, at all times, free and unobstructed by structures of any kind other than flights of steps, nor shall such area be roofed in, or covered over with glass or other material. No bridge or flight of steps shall be placed over any window opening into such area. Every area shall be provided with a suitable parapet wall, or safe iron railing, or fence, along its upper edge.
Kitchen, &c.
Sub-soil drainage.
Paving of area and floors.
Structures in areas prohibited.
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