The Public Health Act, 1875, and the Whole Law Relating to Public Health, Local Government, and Urban and Rural Sanitary AuthoritiesButterworths, 1878 - 963 pages |
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Air Pipe Air apparatus arranged ascer Average Annual Instalment Blue Bricks Bore-holes brick sewer cast-iron pipes charcoal cistern cleansing communication-pipe Company concrete conduits connexion constructed contour lines Contract cost COVENT GARDEN Cripplegate crude sewage deposit depth diameter district Double pumps drain ventilation earthenware pipes engine excavated excreta feet filter filtration fixed flap flocculent flood-water flooded flow flushing foot valve formed gallons gradients house-drains hydraulic Hydraulic ram inches invert irrigation John Warner joints junction laid land liable lines main sewers main tank main-sewer manhole nuisance outlet overflow Pipe Air Pipe placed prevent Public Health Act removed reservoir river Robert Rawlinson Sanitary SCHEDULE of Prices sewage farm sewage-gases sewer or drain sewer ventilation sewers and drains shaft Side Chamber side-junctions sink soil-pans SPECIMEN PLAN steep gradients street subsoil surface surveyor town Treble pumps trench valve VALVE-CHAMBER warning-pipe water supplied water-closets water-tight wrought-iron
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Page 25 - ... shall specify the work, materials, matters, or things to be furnished, had, or done, the price to be paid, and the time or times within which the contract is to be performed, and shall fix and specify some pecuniary penalty to be paid in case the terms of the contract are not duly performed...
Page 34 - ... apparatus, so constructed as not to be capable of discharging more than one gallon of water at each flush. " 23. Every down-pipe hereafter fixed for the discharge of water into the pan or basin of any water-closet shall have an internal diameter of not less than one inch and a quarter, and if of lead shall weigh not less than nine pounds to every lineal yard.
Page 34 - Every boiler, urinal, and water-closet, in which water supplied by the company is used (other than water-closets in which hand flushing is employed), shall, within three months after these regulations come into operation, be served only through a cistern or service-box, and without a stool-cock, and there shall be no direct communication from the pipes of the company to any boiler, urinal, or water-closet.
Page 33 - communication-pipe" for the conveyance of water to be supplied by the Company into any premises shall have at or near its point of entrance into such premises, and if desired by the consumer within such premises, a sound and suitable stop-valve of the screw-down kind, with an area of waterway not less than that of a half-inch pipe and not greater than that of the "communication-pipe," the size of the valve within these limits being .at the option of the consumer.
Page 33 - Every cistern used in connection with the water supplied by the company shall be made and at all times maintained water-tight, and be properly covered and placed in such a position that it may be inspected and cleansed. Every such existing cistern, if not already provided with an efficient ball-tap...
Page 10 - All the material used should be sound, and the workmanship should be carefully attended to. 20. " Sight-rails " should be put up in each street before the ground is opened out, showing the centre line of each sewer and depth to the invert. 21. Sewers having steep gradients should have full means for ventilation at the highest points. 22. Tall chimneys may be used, with advantage, for sewer and drain ventilation, if the owners will allow a connection to be made. 23. Sewer out-let works should...
Page 17 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
Page 34 - Every person who shall wilfully violate, refuse, or neglect to comply with, or shall wilfully do or cause to be done any act, matter, or thing, in contravention of these regulations, or any part thereof, shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty in a sum not exceeding £5.
Page 25 - Days ° public Notice at the least shall be given expressing the Nature and Purpose thereof, and inviting Tenders for the Execution of the same ; and the said Local Board shall require and take sufficient Security for the due Performance of the same.
Page 25 - ... surveyor an estimate in writing, as well of the probable expense of executing the work in a substantial manner, as of the annual expense of repairing the same; also a report as to the most advantageous mode of contracting, that is to say, whether by contracting only for the execution of the work, or for executing and also maintaining the same in repair during a term of years or otherwise : Provided also, that, before any contract of the value or amount of 100/. or upwards is entered into by the...