The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-30


nected al small cost with the sewer
age system.
We have given these recommended
lions much thought, and have endeav-
Ored TO frame such as can be applied
10 any part Of the city included within
the sewerage system rather than take
the time necessary TO point out specific
uuisances.
Rules and Regulations.
Rain Water.-Where the space be-
tween buildings is less than ten feet
the water from the roofs OF the ad-
Joining buildings shall be conducted in
water-tight leaders, and made to dis
charge into suitable drains leading 10
street or alley cutters.
Air Space Between Buildings.-If a
building TO be used for residence. ten
ement or lodging house is on the front
o: any lot where there are one or more
buildings on the rear of the same lot.
there shall be clear space of at least
fifteen feet between each of said build
ings if these buildings are not more
than two stories high. and. il higher.
five feet wider space for each addition
al story. and no wooden building. ex-
cept that fronting upon a street or pub
lie way of at least twelve feet wide
shall be built Or maintained within
three feet of the boundary line of the
lot upon which said buildings are
erected.
Light and Ventilation in Rooms.-In
every inhabited room there shall be at
least eight square feet of window area,
having unobstructed access into the
open air for each 100 square feet of
floor space. and free access shall be
had TO the same by the occupants of
the room. portion of each window
being movable for ventilation.
Air Under Buildings.-Every build
ing. except privies. having wooden
floors. shall have at least eight inches
OF clear space for the circulation of
air between the floor timbers and the
ground, and shall have sufficient ven
tilating openings in outer walls to
admit a free circulation of air.
Yards, Etc.-Yards, areas. courts or
other open spaces in or between build
ingS where water is used for washing
OF any kind, shall be properly graded,
cemented. tagged or paved, being
made waterproof and drained into
sewer. cesspools or street gutter
Water-Tight Floors-All rooms for
any purpose in which water is used in
such quantities as to render the floors
damp. shall have such floors made alb
solutely waterproof, and to have prop
er drainage into trapped leaders. con-
veying the water away to cesspool or
sewer; the water-proofng of all floors
- ,-g4
to the Board of Health Or Building In
spector.
PROFESSIONALISM thirty days after
the public sewer systemis put into OPP
Grafton the use of privies shall be en-
tirely discontinued within the limits of
such sewer system, and all privies shall
be removed except as permits are
granted to convert the same into use
for receiving approved water closets.
Pending the completion of the public
sewers no privy shall be built or main
tanned without at least three feet of
clear space on all sides.
No privy shall be built or maintained
so as to entirely cover the cesspool or
vault under the same, but the cesspool
or vault shall project out on one side
to allow for inspection and removal of |
contents. The contents OF any privy, |
vault or cesspool shall not be allowed |
to rise within eighteen inches of the |
top of the same or to such hight as |
to flow out onto the surface of the |
ground.
No cesspool shall be built or main
tanned wholly, or in part, under any
building Except privies), unless the
same be made absolutely water-tight
by masonry, walls and dome, and hav-
ng a small iron manhole and cover at
.op; also to have a 4-inch cast-iron
rent pipe with caulked lead joints, ex-
lending up through or at the outside
If the building, and with top of pipe
lbove the roof of the highest building
within a distance OF twenty feet of
he same. all these vent pipes 10 run
Is direct as possible.
No cesspool or privy vault shall be
,uilt or maintained in any location ex-
ept the same shall have a substantial
'urb which shall retain the earth on
he outside and the contents Of the
esspool or vault on the inside, and
hall have substantial water-tight
over with small, movable lid in same ;
or examination and removal Of con-
ents.
All cesspools or priyy vaults other
han those wholly or in part under
and which have cast-iron
ent pipes, shall have approved vent
hats, extending not less than twelve
aet into the open air, and, if within
wenty feet of any inhabited building,
he top Of such vent shaft shall be as
ecified for the cast-iron vent pipes.
very privy shall have proper seats,
18th hinged lids to the openings in
anne.
All connections to ceSspools shall be
lade with cast-iron, lead or vitrifed
ever pipe. All urinals shall be con-
ected 20 cesspools. vaults or sewer by
'apped waste pipes.
All casspOolS shall ha nronorIy