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49. No latrine other than a water-closet shall be main- Latrines tained or used so as to have any direct communication by not to be means of any pipe, drain or grating, with any underground directly private drain or public sewer, and any existing latrine, not with drains. being a water-closet, having such communication shall have the same completely cut off by the owner when so required by the Building Authority.
50. Every pail latrine shall be in accordance with the Construction following requirements:-
(a) It shall be provided with its own pail which shall be of a pattern approved by the Urban Council.
(b) The base of the compartment holding the pail and the walls of that compartment up to the squatting platform or seat and for a height of three feet above it shall be plastered with cement or other impervious material. All internal angles shall be half round in section.
(c) The pail must be so placed that all excreta shall fall directly into it, urine guards being provided for this purpose. The pail shall accurately fit the place provided for it and shall as far as possible occupy the whole of such space.
(d) The hole in the platform or seat shall not be more than one foot long and one foot broad.
(e) The pail compartment shall be arranged in such at manner as shall enable the pail to be readily removed and replaced and the floor and sides of the compartment to be easily cleansed.
of pail
latrines.
cleansing
51. In the case of pail latrines the closets and pails Daily shall be cleansed daily and the nighsoil removed and disposed of rail of daily. Where pail latrines are provided for the use of closets. tenants of blocks of tenement houses these requirements shall be carried out by such persons as the Council may direct.
52. Any person erecting temporary sheds for workmen shall provide such latrines and pails as may be required by the Council and shall pay such fees for removal of night-soil as may be fixed by the Council.
53. The Urban Council may by notice require the owner or person having control of any latrine to alter, repair or remove it if considered to be defective, or to cleanse, white wash or otherwise, disinfect it at any time.
Sheds for
workmen to be provided with latrines.
Council may order repair or removal of latrine.
water supply to be provided for water closet or urinal
54. The occupier of any premises upon which any Proper water closet or urinal has been or hereafter shall be constructed, or, if there be no occupier, the owner or immediate landlord, shall provide a constant and adequate supply of water, stored in accordance with the Drainage Regulations from time to time in force, for the flushing of every such water closet and urinal and shall maintain every such water closet and urinal in a thoroughly efficient and cleanly condition.
closets and water flushed urinals.
55.-(1) No person shall maintain, or allow to remain Water on any premises owned or occupied by him, any water closet or urinal constructed before the 24th day of June, 1927. unless such water closet or urinal was constructed with the permission of the Sanitary Board and the consent of the Governor-iin-Council or was constructed in and is in a hospital
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