Standard Practical Plumbing: Being a Complete Encyclopædia for Practical Plumbers and Guide for Architects, Builders, Gas Fitters, Hot Water Fitters, Ironmongers, Lead Burners, Sanitary Engineers, Zinc Workers, Recommended by the Worshipful Company of Plumbers as a Text Book for Registered Plumbers, Examinations, &c ... Illustrated with Over 2000 Engravings, 1. köideE. & F. N. Spon, 1892 |
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Page 288 - drain' shall mean and include any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed...
Page 288 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : "Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 280 - Owner" means the person for the time being receiving the rackrent of the lands or premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such lands or premises were let at a rackrent...
Page 280 - Occupier, requiring him, within a Time to be specified therein, to obtain such Supply, and to do all such Works as may be necessary for that Purpose ; and if such Notice be not complied with the said Local Board may, if they shall think fit, do such Works, and obtain such Supply accordingly, and make and levy...
Page 281 - Museum between the Hours of Ten in the Forenoon and Four in the Afternoon on...
Page 273 - The undertakers shall provide and keep in the pipes to be laid down by them a supply of pure and wholesome water, sufficient for the domestic use of all the inhabitants of the town or district within the limits of the special Act, who, as hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to demand a supply, and shall be willing to pay water rate for the same...
Page 288 - ... give notice in writing to the owner or occupier of such house or part thereof to whitewash cleanse or purify the same as the case may require.
Page 281 - Act, or wrongfully fails to do anything which, under any of those provisions, ought to be done for the prevention of the waste, misuse, undue consumption, or contamination of the water of such company...
Page 277 - Act, and shall permit all Persons interested to inspect the same, and make Extracts or Copies therefrom, in the like Manner, and upon the like Terms, and under the like Penalty for Default, as is provided in the Case of certain Plans w.
Page 272 - ... so that the waterway from the water in the district-pipe or other supply-pipe of the company up to and through the stopvalve prescribed by Regulation No. 12 shall not in any part be of less area than that of the " communication-pipe " itself, which pipe shall not be of less than a half-inch bore in all its course.