Plumbing Code of the City of South Bend, Oridance No. 3208 as Amended 1937

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placed out of doors nor in the cellar of any tenament house, except as an appurtenance to an engine or boiler room and then only in case such cellar water closet is lighted and ventilated. Section 111: No water closet or urinal bowl or trough, excepting anti - freezing closets, shall be supplied directly from the water supply pipes* Every water closet or urinal bowl or trough shall either be Plush - ed by an improved flushometer valve or indirectly flushed through a flush- ing tank of at least five (5) gallons capacity for each water olosets and two (2) gallons for each urinal. Section 112: A group of urinals, on the same floor, subject to con- stant use as in schools and factories may be supplied from one (1) tank, if provided with an automatic simultaneous flush provided that each in- dividual urinal shall receive not less than one (1) gallon of water at each flushing and the discharge is of such force as to oleanse such individual bowl at each flush, All public urinals in saloons, hotels, comfort sta. dons, and similar locations shall be equipped with automatic flush tanks: Section 115: No plumbing fixtures shall be located in any room or apartment which does not contain a window placed in an external wall of the building or is not provided with a system of ventilation. Mompartnents containing not more than Pour (d) oiosets or their equivalent nhall be looated in an apartment containing windows not less than 12 sq, fte in area and provided with a gravity or meohanioal system or ventilation which will change the air at normal temperature not less than six (6) times per hour, or may be placed in a compartment without windows in the external well of the building, providing a meohanioal system of ventilation is installed which will oheage the air at normal temperature not less than six (6) times per hour. Section 114; All rooms containing a public lavatory shall have ventilation to the outer air by an air shaft or duct sufficient to prov- ide the necessary ventilation of the room. Ventilation from toilet rooms shall be separate and distinct and have no connection whatever with the other ventilating ducts in the building* when water closets or urinals are not placed in a separate and proper_' 1y ventilated room the partitions around the same shall be extended to the