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increased from three inches to nine inches.
A copy of the Board's Model Series is enclosed.
It will be seen that Clause 10 runs thus:
"Every person who shall erect a domestic building shall cause the whole ground surface or site of such building to be properly asphalted or covered with a layer of good cement concrete, rammed solid, at least six inches thick."
Clause 47
The Board would advise against this provision.
Clause 50. The Board do not understand how the requirement in the very next clause (51) as to a moveable receptacle is consistent with the permission in this clause for a means of communication to carry off ablution water from the privy into a drain or sewer.
The term "ablution water" may have a local and definite meaning. They think it possible to place every erected privy at a reasonable minimum distance from inhabited buildings.
The use of the word "in" in the passage "in any newly erected building" in clause 50 is of importance. It would prevent persons from bringing water for ablution purposes into the privy and from using the means of communication in question for getting rid of water with which the privy itself has been cleansed. But even if "ablution water" applies only to such use as Mohomedans...