A WATER CLOSET PER FIFTEEN INMATES.

Sec. 48. In houses containing one (1) or more than one (1) tenement, there shall be one water-closet for each family, and a separate cistern for each closet; in other buildings, however, a group of closets may be supplied from one (1) tank; and there shall be at least one (1) water-closet to every fifteen (15) inmates.

WATER CLOSETS FOR BOTH SEXES.

In buildings where operatives of both sexes are employed, proper separate accomodation shall be furnished for men and women.

OVERFLOW PIPES OF WATER CLOSETS.

Sec. 49. The overflow pipes from water-closet cisterns shall discharge into an open sink, or the basin of the water closet, or where its discharge will attract attention and indicate whether waste of water is occuring, but not into the soil or waste pipe, or into the drain direct.

VALVES

Sec. 50. Valves must be fitted and adjusted as to prevent wasting of water.

PRIVY PITS.

Sec. 51. No privy pit or cesspool for sewage shall hereafter be constructed within the City on any premises situated within two hundred (200) feet of any street wherein there is a sewer and wherein the City water is laid; nor shall privy pits or cesspools for sewage, presently existing be henceforth permitted to remain in any part of the City where water-closets can be connected with the public sewer in the streets.

PRIVY PITS, EXCEPTIONAL CASES.

Proviso. The Health Department, may, however, in exceptional cases, issue written permits for the toleration (during a period of not exceeding twelve (12) consecutive months, renewable) of privy pits and cesspools for sewage where the nature of the case would make the rigid enforcement of this law By-law a detriment to the Public health. In all such cases, the following shall be the the method. of procedure.

APPLICATION FOR TOLERATING PRIVY PITS.

Sec. 52. The owner or agent of any premises, whereon it is desired to tolerate for a limited period a privy pit or cesspool for sewage, shall fyle, during the month of April each year, a demand in writing upon the Health Department for a temporary permit, alleging therein the grounds whereon exception is demanded.

INSPECTION OF PRIVY PITS.

The premises in question shall forwith be inspected by an officer of the Health Department, who shall make a written report concerning the same to the Medical Health Officer upon the following matters:

a.

As to the validity of the reasons advanced by the applicant for the exemption from the general law.

b. As to the construction and condition of the privy pit or cesspool for sewage for which the permit is asked.

ACTION OF HEALTH OFFICER RE PRIVY PITS

Upon the receipt of the aforesaid report, the Medical Health Officer, if, in his opinion, the strict enforcement of this By-law would be detrimental to health, and if the condition of the privy pit or cesspool for sewage, for which toleration is demanded, is in conformity with the following article, may issue the tmporary permit herein above mentioned.

CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVY PITS.

Sec. 53. Every new pit shall be water tight, of a capacity of forty five (45) cubic feet; the sides and bottom shall be constructed of cemented brick twelve (12) inches in thickness and well cemented inside with hydraulic cement; such vault may be constructed of cast iron the shape or form of which shall be either circular or oblong without angles, and with a concave bottom; it shall be provided with a ventilation pipe at least four (4) inches in diameter, extending from the pit through the roof sufficiently high as to prevent inconveniences to occupants of neighboring houses; the seats shall have a tight fitting cover; it shall have an aperture opening exteriorly to allow of cleaning by pneumatic process, such aperture to be two (2) feet by one and a half (112) feet in size, or else the flooring shall be air tight and shall have a tightly fitting trap door communicating with the pit; the top of the vault shall be one (1) foot above the level of the ground; nothing shall be put into such pit, excepting human excreta; privies shall be located at a distance of twenty (20) feet or more, should the board of Health deem it necessary, from any house or street; they shall be emptied when the contents reach within eighteen (18) inches of the top of the vault or whenever the Board of Health deem it necessary; no offensive smell or gases shall be allowed to escape therefrom. But, in no case shall a privy be allowed within a dwelling house.

DRAINAGE OF PRIVY PITS.

Sec. 54. In the case of privy vaults now drained into a common sewer, they shall be isolated by means of suitable traps placed below frost and according to instructions from the Board of Health.

WATER CLOSETS IN ALL NEW HOUSES

Sec. 55. In case of a new house being built, or one already existing being repaired, wherever there is a public sewer in the street, a water closet shall be put in to the exclusion of privy pits.

NO TOLERATION OF PRIVY PITS.

Sec. 56. When a house is occupied by but one (1) family, if there is already a water closet in the house, no privy pit shall be tolerated on the premises.

NO STEAM EXHAUST IN SEWERS.

Sec. 57. No steam exhaust blow off pipe shall connect with a sewer directly, or with any house drain, soil pipe or waste pipe; such pipe must first discharge into a tank or condenser.

CELLAR DRAINS.

Sec. 58. Cellars shall not be connected with the house drain, unless by a branch pipe, and by special permissions of the Department and according to plans approved of by the Department.

SUB-SOIL DRAINS.

Sec. 59. A sub-soil drain shall be provided when absolutely necessary, and shall be constructed and trapped to the satisfaction of the Department.

TRAPS BETWEEN HOUSE AND SEWER.

Sec 60 -No trap shall be permitted between the house drain and the public sewer, unless otherwise decided by the Board of Health, in which case such trap shall have a hand-hole for cleaning purposes and a fresh air inlet pipe, the whole as may be decided upon by the Department.

DRAIN IN YARDS.

Sec. 61.-Drains in yards, shall, in all cases, be trapped below frost, that is to say; four feet at least under ground.

INSPECTION OF DRAINS.

Sec. 62. The inspection of drains on private property shall be under the exclusive control of the Department.

STOP COCKS TO GAS PIPES.

Sec. 63. Gas companies are obliged to place a stop cock to every main pipe.

PENALTY.

Sec. 64. Any person contravening any of the provisions of this By-law shall be liable to a fine with or without costs, and in default of immediate payment of the said fine with or without costs, as the the case may be, to an imprisonment; the amount of said fine, and the term of said imprisonment to be determined by the Recorders' Court of the City of Montreal, at its discretion; but the said fine shall not exceed forty (40) dollars and the term of imprisonment shall not exceed two (2) calendar months; the said imprisonment, however, to cease at any time before the expiration of the period fixed by the Recorder's Court, on payment of said fine or fine and costs, as the case may be; and if the infraction is repeated, such repetition shall constitute, day by day, upon summons or arrest, a separate offence.

BY-LAWS REPEALED.

Sec. 65.-By-laws Nos. 268 and 297 concerning plumbing, drainage and ventilation of buildings are repealed.

BY-LAW NO. 49, CONCERNING VAULTS AND CISTERNS. (PASSED MARCH 15TH, 1870, AS AMENDED AS TO PENALTY. PASSED 27 JANUARY, 1879, NUMBER 117).

PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT VAULTS, BY WHOM GIVEN.

Sect. 1.-The Road Committee, on application for that purpose, is hereby empowered to give permission to construct any vaults or cisterns in the streets: provided in the opinion of a majority of said committee, no injury will come to the public thereby.

NO VAULTS TO BE MADE WITHOUT PERMISSION. Sect. 2. No person shall cause any vault or cistern to be constructed or made in any of the streets in the said City of Montreal, without the writtin permission of the Road Committee.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

Sect. 3.-Every application for permission to erect such vault or cistern shall be in writing signed by the proprietor making the same, and shall state the number of square feet of ground which is required for the same and the intended length and width of the

same.

FEE FOR CONSTRUCTION.

Sect. 3. After obtaining permission to construct or make such vault or cistern, and previous to the commencement thereof, the person so applying shall forthwith pay to the city treasurer the sum of twenty-five cents (25) per each square foot of ground mentioned as required for such vault or cistern.

LINE OF SIDEWALK.

Sect. 5. No person shall erect or build, or cause or permit any vault or cistern to be made which shall extend further than the line of the sidewalk or curb stone of any street in the said City.

MEASURED BY THE CITY SURVEYOR BEFORE ARCHED. Sect. 6.-It shall be the duty of every person for whom any vault or cistern may be constructed, to cause or procure the same to be measured by the City Surveyor, and to deliver to the Road Committee a certificate of the said measurement, signed by the said Surveyor, before the arching of such vault or cistern shall be commenced; for each of which certificates the City Surveyor shall be entitled to receive, on behalf of the corporation of the said City from the party requiring the same, the sum of four dollars.

GREATER AMOUNT OF SPACE THAN CERTIFIED

Sect. 7. If it shall appear by such certificate or otherwise that such vault or cistern occupies a greater number of square feet than shall have been paid for as aforesaid, the owner of such vault or cistern shall, in addition to the penalty hereinafter provided, pay twenty-five (25) cents for each square foot of ground occupied by such vault or cistern, over and above the number of square feet feet paid for as aforesaid.

ENCLOSURE OF VAULTS DURING CONSTRUCTION.

Sect. 8. It shall be the duty of every person or persons engaged in building vaults or cisterns as aforesaid, to enclose the ground taken or appropriated for such vaults, with a fence or railing, in such a manner as to prevent danger to street passengers; and to continue and uphold the said fence or railing until the work shall be completed or the danger removed.

VAULTS OR CISTERNS, HOW CONSTRUCTED.

Sect. 9. All vaults or cisterns shall be constructed of brick or stone, in a solid and substantial manner and the outward side of the grating or opening into the street shall be either within twelve (12) inches of the outside of the curb stone of the sidewalk, or within twelve (12) inches of the foundation wall of the front of the house or building to which such vault shall belong.

GRATES OF VAULTS AND CISTERNS.

Sect. 10. All grates to vaults shall be made of wrought iron, the bars whereof shall be three-fourths (34) of an inch wide and one half (12) of an inch thick, and not more than three quarters (34) of an inch apart; or the said vaults or cisterns may be provided with thick glass lights, to the satisfaction of the City Surveyor.

TIME REQUIRED FOR COMPLETIΟΝ.

Sec. 11. All vaults or cisterns shall be completed and the ground and sidewalk over them closed and refitted to the satisfaction of the City Surveyor, within three (3) weeks after they are commenced.

VAULTS AND CISTERNS, TO BE COVERED.

Sect. 12. It shall be the duty of every proprietor who shall construct, or cause to be constructed, any vault or cistern under the provisions of this by-law, w, to lay and maintain at his own cost, over such vault or cistern, a flag stone footpath or side walk.