Bye-laws : 1885 / Edmonton Local Board of Health.

  • Edmonton Local Board of Health.
Date:
1980
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Bye-laws : 1885 / Edmonton Local Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2g. A person who shall erect a new building shall not make any recess in any external wall or party wall of such building. (a.) Unless the back of such recess be at the least nine inches thick. (b.) Unless a sufficient arch be turned in every storey over every such recess. (c.) Unless in each storey the aggregate extent of recesses having backs of less thickness than the thickness prescribed by any Bye- Law in that behalf for the wall in which such recesses are made, do not exceed one half of the extent of the vertical superficies of such wall. (d.) Unless the side of any such recess nearest to the inner face of any return external wall is distant at the least thirteen and a half inches therefrom. 30 A person who shall erect a new building shall not make in any wall of such building any chase which shall be wider than four¬ teen inches or more than four and a half inches deep from the face of such wall, or shall leave less than nine inches in thickness at the back or opposite side thereof, or which shall be within thirteen and a half inches from any other chase, or within seven feet from any other chase on the same side of such wall or within thirteen and a half inches from any return wall. 31. A person who shall erect a new building shall not place in any party wall of such building any bond timber, or any plate, block, brick, or plug of wood. 32. A person who shall erect a new building shall not place the end of any bressummer, beam or joist in any party wall of such building, unless the end of such bressummer, beam, or joist be at least four and a half inches distant from the centre line of such party wall. 33. Every person who shall erect a new building shall cause every girder to be borne by a sufficient template of stone, iron, terra¬ cotta, or vitrified stoneware of the full breadth of the girder. 34. Every person who shall erect a new building shall cause every bressummer to have a bearing in the direction of its length of four inches at least at each end on a sufficient pier of brick or stone, or on a storey post of timber or iron fixed on a solid foundation, in addition to its bearing on any party wall; and He shall also, if necessary, cause such bressummer to have such other storey posts, iron columns, stanchions, or piers of brick or stone on a solid foundation under the same as may be sufficient to carry the superstructure. 35. Every person who shall erect a new building shall cause the open space inside any partition wall of such building, or between the joists in any wall of such building to be stopped with brickwork, concrete, pugging, or other incombustible material at every floor and ceiling. 36. Every person who shall erect a new building shall, except in such case as is hereinafter provided, cause every chimney of such building to be built on solid foundations and with footings similar to