D. 1901.]

PUBLIC HEALTH.

[No. 10.

2.-(1.) The conditions under which alone it shall be lawful to occupy or use, or to let or sub-let, or to suffer or permit to be used for occupation as a shop any cellar, vault, underground room, basement, or room, any side of which abuts on or against the earth or soil, shall be that such cellar, vault, underground room, basement, or room complies with the provisions of the last preceding By-Law, or that such cellar, vault, underground room, basement, or room fronts on a street of a clear width of not less than eight feet free from any vertical obstruction whatever, and that such cellar, vault, underground room, basement, or room does not exceed thirty feet in length, as measured from the front wall to the back wall.

(2.) Such shop shall not be used for habitation except by such a person or by such number of persons as the Board may authorize in writing, and, in every case in which the Board authorizes any person or persons to use for habitation any such shop, sleeping accommodation shall be provided by the erection of a cockloft or bunks, which shall have a clear space of at least four feet between it or them and such side or sides of the cellar, vault, underground room, basement, or room as abuts or abut against the earth or soil.

PART III.

CATTLE-SHEDS, PIG-STIES, ETC.

1. Annual licences expiring on the 31st day of December of the year in which they are granted shall be issued for the keeping of cattle, swine, sheep, and goats.

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Conditions for occupation of cellar, etc., as shop.

Annual licence for keeping of cattle, etc.

Application

2. Any person desirous of obtaining a licence to keep cattle, swine, sheep, or goats shall make application to the Board by means of a properly filled-in form for licence, for which purpose blank forms may be obtained from the Secretary of the Board at his Office.

3.-(1.) No building in which cattle, swine, sheep, and goats are housed shall be situated nearer than six feet to any dwelling house and shall not in any way connect with a public or private sewer, except with the special permission of the Board.

(2.) Such building shall be lighted and ventilated to the satisfaction of the Board, and the flooring thereof shall be of granite slabs, concrete, or other impervious material and provided with water-tight channels for draining all urine and fluid noxious matters into a water-tight covered sump or such other place as may be approved of by the Board.

(3.) The sump shall be constructed to the satisfaction of the Board, and shall be emptied and the contents thereof, together with solid manure in the building, removed daily.

Description of building for keeping of cattle, etc.

4. Each cow shall have at least twenty-four square feet net area of standing room and three hundred and sixty cubic feet of air-space; but in no case shall the building be less than twelve feet in height.

Area and air-space for cow.

5.(1) Each sheep and goat shall have at least eight square feet of standing room and ninety cubic feet of air-space.

Area and air-space for sheep and goat.

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