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PUBLIC HEALTH . 987
[ 24 of 1887. ]
upon some combined plan to be approved by it , and the expenses
shall be apportioned by the board between the different owners
of such group of contiguous tenement.
52. If any building be without a sufficient drain, and if a Owners to
public sewer of sufficient size be within one hundred feet of the drains
connectwith
premises or outermost boundaries of the lot on which such main -sewers.
building is situated , and if such public sewer be on a lower level ,
it shall be lawful for the board to require the owner of such
building to connect with such public sewer by means of a proper
drain adequately trapped and ventilated, to the satisfaction of
the board : provided always that, if , after the passing of this
ordinance, any owner, by order of the board , connects his build
ing with a public sewer, he shall not be required to connect such
building, at his own expense, with any other public sewer.
53. Whenever the board shall have reason to believe that Suspected
the drains of any building are defective and in a condition drains to be
injurious to health , it shall be lawful for the board to order an board.
inspecting officer to enter the premises and to inspect such {sce.No,
, S. 2. 24
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drains, and, if requisite for the purposes of such inspection, such
officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place or places
he may dcem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should
such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be
reinstated and made good by the board at the public expense,
but should such drains prove in the opinion of the board
defective, it shall cause them to be properly reconstructed in
accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
54. Every owner of a new building in the villages and rural House drains
districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall construct the ground and rural
floor of such building at such sufficiently bigh level as will districts.
allow of the construction of a drain, and of the provision of the
requisite communication with any public sewer into which such
drain may lawfully empty or with any other means of drainage
with which such drain may lawfully communicate.
55. Wherever feasible , every house-drain in the villages and Open drains.
rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall hereafter be an
open drain consisting of a semi-circular channel, of glazed
stoneware jointed in cement mortar and laid to adequate falls
on a bed of good lime or cement concrete, to the satisfaction of
the board .

56. In isolated places not connected with any public drainage Sumps.
system , every such open drain shall lead and empty into a
covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime concrete rendered
smoothly in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as
to be water tight.