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Soil conditions and the occurrence of salt damp in buildings of metropolitan Adelaide

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  • The earliest South Australian legislation involving the provision of damp‐proof courses appears to have been the Building Act No. 208 of 1881, which superseded the Municipal Corporations Act of 1880. Clause 3 of the First Schedule of the 1881 legislation states ‘every such wall [i.e. of brick, stone, or concrete] shall be provided with damp proof course or courses other than wood, which shall be above the surface of the ground or celler floor’.
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  • Copies of the list of 179 sites, giving details of location, maximum salinity, and source of soil data, can be obtained on application to the authors.
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  • Ibid.: RB6, p. 93.
  • Ibid.: RB9, p. 94.
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