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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...
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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:
new
"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
layer of good cement concrete, rammed
a
inches thick."
-solid, at least six inches
Clause 47
The Board would advise
sion.
importance in this
conne LA
Clause 50. The Board do not understand
how the
desirable
requirement in the very next clause (51) as to a moveable receptacle
is consistent with the permission in this
clause for
a
means
of
Coun
unication to
carry off ablution water from the privy
drain or sewer.
in to
a
The term "ablution
D
water
may
have
a
local and definite
"Wherever
ought to be
the omission of
the words
possible". They think it
possible to place every erected privy
at a reasonable minimum distance from
inhabited buildings.
The
use of the
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in any newly
of
word. "in" in the passage erected building" in clause 50
is
importance
meaning which would prevent persons from
used in houses for ordinary
bringing water
ablution purposes into the privy and
from using
the
mean
of communication in question for getting rid of water with which the privy itself has bee a But even if "ablution water.
cleansed.
applies only to such use as
Mohomedans
purt
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