NEW SANITARY BYE LAWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10627, 4 June 1897, Page 3

NEW SANITARY BYE LAWS.

The following are the principal new sanitary bye laws which the .Napier Borough Couocl! propose to adopt : — MAIN VENTILATING SHAFT. On the sewer bide ot every disconnector trap 8 ventilation ehnft Bball be famished, havlag a diameter of four inches. iSuoh connection shall be made on the top of the dialn by means of a vertical branch. No part ot such shaft ehall be placed lnelde any bnllding. Such shaft shall be carried to a height not less than three feet above the bfgheßt point of the highest roof within a radtnß of 60 feet In a horizontal direction from the shaft. A cap or cowl of an approved pattern shall be fixed on the top thereof. The outlet ot the ventilation shaft ehall be plaoed as for away us possible, not being lesi than six test measnred In any direction, from any window or chimney top. No connection other than with the drain shall be made to any main ventilation shaft. <*hea under ground every enoh ventilation shaft shall b.i of Btoneware drain pipes laid in accordance with the upeclfioation for pipe laying contained in the third schedule, or of cant iron pipe with iced or ruat joints. To a height ot (■lf>ht feet above the surface of the ground the shaft shall be ot oast iron, similarly joinded, or of sorowed wronght iron )ipiog. Fiom tliecco to its outlet it may be made of oast Iron, Borewed wrought iron pipe, Gib lead or galvanised Iron of nob leos than 22 B.W.G. The connection between the stoneware and the Terticle pipe shall bo made with cement, wbloh, together with all other ( jalnte, shall bo perfectly airtight. If galvanised iron la mcd the pipes shall be j niMle wltb double lapped oud soldoved | longitudinal joints in lonß lengths, and ' the ttirmvcrae joints shall be not leßs then iwo inches in length, slipped or sooketted and soldered, No angular joiota or elbows nhftll bfl used below the eavea lave!. This ahaft shall be properly constructed and supported, and carried in as dlreot a manner as possible. HOUSES FOB POULTRY. No poultry ohall be kept in ony pert of the oity except In properly-constrnoted poultry houses, or in a Bnitably enoloaed run attaohed thereto, ond no snoh poultry houses Bhall b? built leis 15 feet from t»oy dwelling or from any pnblic or private streOt or pnbli.o place. Ho such run shall have its outer fonoa at a less distance than three feet froifl flny boundary of adjoining premises or blx feet) from any public or private street or pnblio place. Floors of all poultry hoaees of whatever size, and enolosed poultry rum of leas than 150 feet super., shall be paved with oonorete or asphalt; and all poultry runs, of whatever size, shall be so enoloaed as to confine the poultry within tho premises of the owner thereof and within the limit of suoh owner's boundaries hereby defined. Shonld any poultry house or poultry run, existing at tho coming into foroe of this bye-law, and not constructed in accordance with the foregoing provisions, cause a nuisance . or injury to health owing to Us mode of construction, or to tin; absence of any structural convenience therein or thereto, or by reason of the undue proximity of snoh poultry haueo or run to any ad joining premises, or by reason of any other matter or thing whatsoever, theu end in every oa6O it dIiqII be the duty of the ownor of snoh poultry honte or poultry rnu, upon notice being sotved upon him by the Inspector of Nnlaances so to do, end within a time by snob notice limited, to execute and do suoh works and things as may ba aeces- j Bsry to abate such nuisance, and as may be specified in snch notice. All poultry bouses ehull be well lime- washed at least once in every six months by the oocuplcr of the premises, DISCONNECTING TRAP, A disconnecting trap shall be plaoed in the line of the drain at a point on the eewer eldo of, and immediately oontiguoua to, the first branch drain connection, Suoh traps Bhall ba of stoneware of an approved pattern and quality, and finished with an inspection branch and oap. The trap shall have not lees than three inches, nor morn than five Inches, ot water seal, tmd shall aleo be provided with a fresh air Inlet carried np to or above the enrffloe of the ground, and fitted with an Iron grab' Ing. Such fref h eir inlet shall be oltu&ted on that side of tho trcp furthest from the sewer