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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 48

Privy accommodation for factories.

48. Where it appears to any [district council] that any house is used or
intended to be used as a factory or building in which persons of both sexes
are employed or intended to be employed at one time in any manufacture trade
or business, the [district council] may, if they think fit, by written notice,
require the owner or occupier of such house, within the time therein
specified, to construct a sufficient number of ashpits, and of waterclosets,
earthclosets, or privies, for the separate use of each sex.

Any person who neglects or refuses to comply with any such notice shall be
liable for each default to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, and to a
further penalty not exceeding [two pounds] for every day during which the
default is continued.


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