The health officer's pocket-book : a guide to sanitary practice and law for medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors, members of sanitary authorities, etc. / by Edward F. Willoughby.
- Willoughby, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1839 or 1840-1906.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The health officer's pocket-book : a guide to sanitary practice and law for medical officers of health, sanitary inspectors, members of sanitary authorities, etc. / by Edward F. Willoughby. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![H.A. room, &c. The place for the reception of the dead should therefore be apart from other rooms and offices.] — New. 31 T7 90 Identical. — New. 72 The London Act contains several pro- visions not in P. H. A. Thus (a) 41 Provided that. . . six feet/' (b)9 (c), (d), (f), {g), and (i), 3, 4, 5, 6, are new and (k) is rewritten. In P. H.A. the area need only be 2J not 4 feet wide, but there must be 44 a space of 6 inches between every part of the steps leading down to the cellar and the wall thereof/' [This is rendered unnecessary by the greater width now required.] The only provision as to drainage is 4 4that it be effectually drained by a drain, the uppermost part of which is at least one foot below the level of the floor ; and the clause in P.H.A. corresponding to (Jc) in P.H.(L.)A. reads, 44 an external window of at least nine superficial feet in area clear of the sash frame, made to open in a manner approved by the Surveyor (except in the case of an inner or back cellar let or occupied along with the front cellar as part of the same letting or occupation, in which the external window may be of any dimension, not being less than four super- ficial feet clear of the sash frame). The P.H.A. uses the term cellar in place of 44underground room.57 73 74 P.H.A. § 74. 44 Any cellar in which any person passes the night shall be deemed to be occupied as a dwelling within the meaning of the Act. — New. - 75 Identical. New. A new authority, the C.C., is here introduced. ^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20404116_0334.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
