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X 55. If any building be without a sufficient drain, and if a public sewer of sufficient size be within one hundred feet of the premises or outermost boundaries of the lot on which such building is situated, and if such public sewer be on a lower level, it shall be lawful for the Board to require the owner of such building to connect with such public sewer by means of a proper drain adequately trapped and ventilated, to the satisfaction of the Board.
X 56. Whenever the Board shall have reason to believe that the drains of any building are defective and in a condition injurious to Health it shall be lawful for the Board to order an Inspecting Officer to enter the premises and to inspect such drains, and if requisite for the purposes of such inspection, such Officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place or places he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be reinstated and made good by the Board at the public expense, but should such drains prove in the opinion of the Board defective, it shall cause them to be properly reconstructed in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
X 57. Every owner of a new building in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon 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 or with any other means of drainage with which such drain may lawfully communicate.
X 58. Wherever feasible, every house-drain in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall hereafter be an open drain consisting of a semi-circular channel of glazed stoneware jointed in cement mortar and laid to adequate falls on a bed of good lime or cement concrete to the satisfaction of the Board.
X 59. In isolated places not connected with any public drainage system, every such open drain shall lead and empty into a covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime concrete rendered smoothly in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as to be water-tight.
X 60. No premises within the City of Victoria or the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon, shall be so excavated as shall admit of the formation on the surface thereof, of pools of stagnant or other foul waters, and it shall be lawful for the Board to call upon the owner of any premises whereon such pools may exist, to fill up the same with good clean earth to the level of the surrounding ground, or to drain off such pools by means of surface-drains into any channel with which such surface-drains may lawfully communicate.
PART IV.
X 61. Every person who shall erect a new domestic building, shall construct in the wall of each story of such building which shall immediately front or abut on any open space a sufficient number of suitable windows, in such a manner and in such a position, that each of such windows shall afford effectual means of ventilation by direct communication with the external air.
X 62. Every person who shall erect a new domestic building shall construct every room in the lowest floor if provided with a boarded floor, in such manner that there shall be, for the purpose of ventilation, between the underside of every joist on which such floor may be laid, and the upper surface of the asphalte or concrete with which the ground surface or site of such building may be covered, a clear space of three inches at the least in every part, and he shall cause such space to be ventilated by means of vents, gratings, or air-bricks.
X 63. Every person who shall erect a new domestic building shall construct in every habitable room of such building, one window, at the least, opening directly into the external air, and he shall cause the total area of such window, or, if there be more than one, of the several windows, clear of the sash frames, to be equal at the least to one tenth of the floor area of such room. Such person shall also construct every such window so that one half, at the least, may be opened, and so that the opening may extend in every case to the top of the window.
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