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[s. 53 cont.]
Kitchen
accommoda-tion to be provided
in domestic buildings.
Limitation
of extent of kitchens in tenement houses.
Construction
of chimneys
Buildings.
or used as a bathroom, urinal, water closet, sleeping apartment, storeroom, or kitchen, nor shall any rain or other water be discharged therefrom save in the manner herein-before provided: Provided that, in the case of hotels and blocks of offices, such partitions may be erected as may be necessary for the separation of one room or suite of rooms from any adjacent room.
[63]
Kitchens, fireplaces and chimneys.
54. Every domestic building, and every floor of a domestic building which is separately let for dwelling purposes, shall be provided with adequate kitchen accommodation, the internal area of which shall not, except with the permission of the Building Authority, as signified by the approval of the plan required under the provisions of this Ordinance, be less than 60 square feet, and every kitchen shall be provided with a properly constructed fireplace, and every kitchen shall be properly paved or floored with cement-concrete or other non-absorbent material approved by the Building Authority. The internal surface of the walls of every kitchen shall also be rendered in cement-mortar, or other non-absorbent material approved by the said Authority, to the height of at least 4 feet from the floor level, and the thickness of such material shall not be less than half an inch.
[64]
55. No kitchen of any tenement house shall, without the permission of the Building Authority as signified by the approval of the plan required under the provisions of this Ordinance, hereafter be constructed so as to extend across more than one half of the width of such building if such building has other buildings abutting against it on both sides or is separated from any adjacent building or from land on which any building may be erected by a less space than 20 feet throughout one side. The width of a building shall be measured parallel to the principal front and shall be the average distance between the centres of the party walls or the outer faces of the lateral external walls of such building.
[65]
56. Every fireplace shall be constructed with a proper chimney or smoke-flue and in such a manner as not to allow the smoke to escape through any window or hole in
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