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Furnishing of
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No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG [AD. 1901
more than three gallons each time such pan, basin, or other receptacle is used.
(2.) Such cistern or flushing box shall in every case, except where it is in connexion with a valve closet, be of the type known as the Water Waste Preventor.
(3.) Such cistern shall be provided with a suitable ball-cock fixed to the supply pipe, and it shall be furnished with an overflow pipe carried through the external wall of the water-closet and terminating in a conspicuous position.
4.-(1.) Every person who constructs a water-closet shall furnish such apparatus for water-closet with a suitable apparatus for the effectual application of water to any pan, basin, or other receptacle with which such apparatus is connected and used, and for the effectual flushing and cleansing of such pan, basin, or other receptacle, and for the prompt and effectual removal of any solid or liquid filth which may from time to time be deposited therein.
(2.) He shall furnish such water-closet with a pan, basin, or other suitable receptacle of non-absorbent material, and of such shape, capacity, and mode of construction as to receive and contain a sufficient quantity of water, to allow of all filth which may from time to time be deposited in such pan, basin, or other receptacle to fall directly into the water received and contained in such pan, basin, or receptacle.
Prohibition of apparatus being connected with water service pipe.
Diameter of flush-pipe.
Fixing of apparatus.
Provision, construction, etc., of soil-pipe.
(3.) Such pan, basin, or receptacle shall be provided with a suitable trap having a water seal of not less than one and a half inches.
(4.) He shall not construct or fix under such pan, basin, or other receptacle any container or other similar fitting.
(5.) He shall not construct or fix in or in connexion with the water-closet apparatus any trap of the kind known as the D trap.
5. No water-closet apparatus, pan, basin, or other receptacle shall be directly connected with any water service pipe.
6. No flush-pipe connecting any water-closet apparatus with the cistern shall be less than one and a quarter inches in diameter.
7. All water-closet apparatus, pan, basin, or other receptacle shall be so fixed as to require no casing in and shall not be so cased in.
8.—(1.) Every person who constructs a water-closet shall provide an efficient soil-pipe of cast iron or stone-ware securely fixed to the wall in the manner described for ventilating and fall pipes; and such soil-pipe shall be not less than four inches in diameter, and shall be properly connected to the drain foot, and it shall be carried up without diminution and terminate at its upper end at least two and a half feet in height above the eaves of the building and not within ten feet distant from any window.
(2.) Such soil-pipe, if of iron, shall be securely jointed with yarn and lead, and if of stone-ware, it shall be jointed with yarn and cement, and it shall be cased at its lower end to a height of fifteen feet with a casing of brickwork.
(3.) Every soil-pipe shall be provided with proper junctions for ...