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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD DECEMBER, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 491.
The following Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board and approved by the Legislative Council are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st December, 1892.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
Bye-laws for the proper Construction, Materials, and Fittings of Water- closets on private premises, made under section 3 of Ordinance 12 of 1891 entitled "An Ordinance to further amend The Public Health Ordinance, 1887,"
Position.
Construction.
Cistern.
Apparatus.
Pan, &c.
-Container.
Trap.
Water-pipes.
Flush-pipe.
Casing.
Soil-pipe.
Do.
1. Every person who shall construct a water-closet in a building shall construct such water-closet in such a position that one of its sides, at least, shall be against an external wall. 2. Every water-closet shall be constructed in accordance with sections 47, 48 and 49 of the Building Ordinance, 15 of 1889, relating to privies.
8. Every person who shall construct a water-closet shall furnish such water-closet with a separate cistern or flushing box. Such cistern or flushing box shall be so constructed, fitted and placed as to admit of a supply of water to such closet pan, basin, or other receptacle of not less than 2 gallons or more than 3 gallons each time such pan, basin, or other receptacle
is used.
Such cistern or flushing box shall in all cases, except where it is in connection with a valve closet, be of the type known as the Water Waste Preventor.
Such cistern shall be provided with a suitable ball-cock fixed on the supply-pipe, and it shall be furnished with an overflow pipe carried through the external wall of the water- closet terminating in a conspicuous place.
4. Every person who shall construct a water-closet shall furnish such water-closet with a suitable apparatus for the effectual application of water to any pan, basin, or other receptacle with which such apparatus may be connected and used, and for the effectual flushing and cleansing of such pan, basin, or other receptacle, and for the prompt and effectual removal therefrom of any solid or liquid filth which may from time to time be deposited therein.
He shall furnish such water-closet with a pan, basin, or other suitable receptacle of non- absorbent material, and of such shape, capacity, and mode of construction as to receive and contain a sufficient quantity of water, and to allow of all filth which may from time to time be deposited in such pan, basin, or other receptacle to fall directly into the water received and contained in such pan, basin, or receptacle. Such pan, basin, or receptacle shall be provided with a suitable trap, having a water seal of not less than 1 inches.
He shall not construct or fix under such pan, basin, or receptacle any container or other similar fitting.
He shall not construct or fix in or in connection with the water-closet apparatus any trap of the kind known as the D trap.
5. No water-closet apparatus, pan, basin, or other receptacle shall be directly connected with any water service pipe.
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6. No flush-pipe connecting any water-closet apparatus with the cistern shall be less than 14 inches in diameter.
7. All water-closet apparatus, pan, basin, or receptacle shall be so fixed as to require no casing in and shall not be so cased in.
8. Every person who shall construct a water-closet shall provide an efficient soil-pipe of cast iron or stoneware securely fixed to the wall in the manner described for ventilating and fall pipes, and such soil-pipe shall be at least 4 inches in diameter; and shall be properly connected to the drain at the foot, and it shall be carried up without diminution and terminate in an open end at least 2 feet in height above the eaves of the building and 10 feet distant from any window.
Such soil-pipe, if of iron, shall be securely jointed with yarn and lead, and if of stone- ware, it shall be jointed with yarn and cement, and protected at its lower end to a height of 15 feet with a casing of brickwork or iron.
Every soil-pipe shall be provided with proper junctions for connecting with the water- closet pan, basin, or receptacle, the trap of which shall be connected in a sound and substan- tial manner. No soil-pipe shall receive any waste-pipe other than that from a water-closet apparatus or urinal, and no trap shall be fixed in any portion thereof.
Every soil-pipe, wherever practicable, shall be fixed throughout its entire length outside the building.
9. When more than one water-closet, pan, basin, or receptacle is connected with a soil- pipe, the trap of each and every such pan, basin, or receptacle shall be provided with an air pipe not less than 14 inches in diameter which shall be carried up throughout its entire length
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