956 [ 24 OF 1887. ] PUBLIC HEALTII .
Premises 37. When any such proclamation is in force, and upon any
overcrowded. evidence that the board may deem sufficient that any premises
are so overcrowded as to be injurious to health, the board shall
have power to make such order as it shall see fit to abate such
overcrowding, and the house-holder, tenant, or occupier of such
premises who shall permit such overcrowding to continue after
such order shall have been served on him , shall forfeit a sum
not exceeding one hundred dollars for every day during which
such overcrowding shall continue, and in default of payment he
shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding
three months.
Proclamation 38. All proclamations of the Governor in Council for execut
to extend to
waters of the ing the provisions contained in sections 32 to 37 of this ordi
Colony . nance, both inclusive, shall extend to the waters of the Colony,
and the board may issue, under the said proclamations, by
virtue of the provisions of section 32, bye-laws for vacating,
cleansing, purifying, and ventilating vessels.
PART III.
Drains.
39. Every owner of a new building erected within the city
( See No.15of of Victoria shall construct the ground floor of such building at
1889, secs.
73, 74. ] such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of
a drain and of the provision ofthe requisite communication with
any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty , at
a point in the upper half -diameter of such sewer.
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[ No. 26 of
1890. ]
All works to
be carried out 49. All works connected with the construction , disconnexion ,
by board or trapping, and ventilating of house-drains, shall be carried out
by persons
approved by at the cost and charges of the owner of the house , either by the
same.
board or by persons approved of by the board under the super
vision of the board or to its satisfaction .
New house
drains. 50. The board may , by a written notice, require the owners
[ No. 26 of of existing buildings, the drains of which are in the opinion of
1890.] the board in a defective or insanitary condition, to construct
within a reasonable time to be determined by the board, new
house -drains in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance,
or of any bye -law made in virtue of this ordinance or to make
such other improvements in the existing defective drainage of
such buildings as in the opinion of the board may be necessary
to meet the requirements of this ordinance or of any bye-law
made in virtue of this ordinance.
Groups of
drains.
51. If it appears to the board that a group of contiguous
tenements may be drained niore advantageously in combination
than separately, the board may order that such group be drained