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2190 ORDINANCE No. 24 OF 1887.


Public Health.


recently suffered from or died of any such disease, or that necessity may
otherwise exist for executing in relation to such premises any of such
bye-laws.

Premises 37. When any such proclamation is in force, and upon any evidence
overcrowded.
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 excceding three months.

Proclamation 38. All proclamations of the Governor in Council for executing
to extend to
waters of the the provisions contained in sections 32 to 37 of this Ordinance , both
Colony.
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 of Vic

[See Ord. No. toria shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently
15 of 1889,
seck, 73, 74. ] high level as will 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, at a point in the upper half- diameter of such
sewer.

Materials to be 40. Every owner of a new building within the city of Victoria shall, in the
used for drains.
construction of every drain of such building, use good sound pipes, formed of cast iron ,
jointed with lead, or hard, well glazed , stone-ware socketted pipes, jointed water- tight
iu cement mortar composed of at least one part of good cement to three equal parts of
clean sand . Black bricks shall not be used in the construction of any house- drains
intended for the conveyance of sewage. Red bricks may be used, provided they are
hard and sound, and that they are set in cement mortar of the foregoing description ,
and that the interior surface of the drain is also smoothly rendered with the same
mortar. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 26 of 1890.]
Sizes and falls of 41. Every owner shall cause every such drain to be of adequate size, such size to
drains.
be approved by the Board, and in no case to be less than six inches internal diameter.
Where the ground is soft, such drain shall be laid in a bed of good lime concrete .