Municipal Public Health Rules 1950 issued with regard to water (10/1, 1950)

Municipal Public Health Rules (Water Rul~s) 10/1 (1950) L. 146 RULES ISSUED PUBSDANT 1.ro THE PUBLIC HEALTH PROCLAMATION\ 1947 These Rules are issued by the Minister of Public Health pursuant to authority vested in him by Article 15(i) of the Public Health Proclamation, 1947 )No.91 of 19L~7). 1. This Legal Notice may be cited as tre "Municipal Public Health Rules 1950, issued with regard to water". 2. No person shall offer to the public for drinking any unsafe water or water from an unsafe source, or water from a source which in the opinion of the munici•-,al -oublic health officer is liable to become unsafe. ''llnsafe water" defined as water which can be demonstrated to be polluted with human or animal excrement or with poisonous substances. 3. No person shall urinate or defacate in any place other than a -oroperly constructed fly-proof latrine. No person shall exnose any human excrement to files or rats or permit such to be exposed uuon his permises. 4. No person shall expose any human excrement either in his compound or elsewhere. 5o No -oerson shall discharge,;~ewage into the natural water courses crossing the town, exce-ot after issuance of a permit recommended jointly by the Municinal Public Health Officer and the Chief of the Municipal Engineering Section and signed by the Kantiba or Town Officer. By the word "Sewage11 is meant the water carried wastes of a house, shop or other establishment; such permits for the discharge of sewage into the natural water courses crossing the town may be revoked at the discretion of the Kantiba or Town Officer after thirty days written notice on the recommendation of the Municipal Public Health Officer. 6. No person shall discharge sewage into any cesspool or abandoned well more than ten meters deep, or otherwise cause or allow the contaminat ion of the natural ground water at a depth of ten meters or more. Done at Addis Ababa this 30th day o P~ittn'i!ffm~.. 0. / ·, ,.· ,. ... n,-,.. -r,,a:,.. • \ . Cf-•I. ... • 1 ... ,..l