The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's HandbookE. & F. N. Spon, 1883 - 394 pages |
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Page 313 - Notices, orders and other such documents under this Act may be in writing or print, or partly in writing and partly in print ; and if the same...
Page 221 - Every local authority may, and when required by order of the local government board shall, themselves undertake or contract for — The removal of house refuse from premises ; The cleansing of earthclosets, privies, ashpits, and cesspools; either for the whole or any part of their district...
Page 252 - ... 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