Digest of Statutes and Ordinances Relating to the Public Health

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...stands, the yard or area shall be so connected with the same, that all water, from the roof or otherwise, and all liquid filth shall pass freely into it. Where no sewer exists in the street, the yard or area shall be so graded that ajl water, from the roof or otherwise, and all filth, shall flow freely from it and all parts of it, into the street gutter, by a passage beneath the sidewalk, which shall be covered by a permanent cover, but so arranged as to permit access to remove obstructions or impurities. 113. From and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful, without a permit from the board of health or superintendent of health, to let or occupy, or rooms used as suffer to be occupied separately as a dwelling, any J'1', .' vaults, cellar or underground room, built or rebuilt after said date, or which shall not have been so let or occupied before said date. And it shall not be lawful, without such permit, to let or continue to be let, or to occupy, or suffer to be occupied, separately as a dwelling, any vault, cellar or underground room whatsoever, unless the same be in every part thereof at least seven feet in height, measured from the floor to the ceiling thereof, nor unless the same be for at least one foot of its height above the surface of the street or ground adjoining, or nearest to the same, nor unless there be outside of and adjoining the said vault, cellar or room, and extending along the entire frontage thereof, and upwards from six inches below the level of the floor thereof, up to the surface of the said street or ground, an open space of at least two feet and six inches wide in every part, nor unless the same be well and effectually drained by means of a drain, the uppermost part of which is one foot at least below...