Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1893
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after remove or cause to be removed from such street the litter
or other matter so laid in such street.
For preventing nuisances arising from any offensive matter running out of
any manufactory, brewery, slaughter-house, knacker's yard,
butcher's or fishmonger's shop, or dunghill, into any uncovered
place, whether or not surrounded by a wall or fence.
7. The occupier of a manufactory, brewery, slaughterhouse,
knacker's yard, butcher's or fishmonger's shop, or of any
premises comprising a dunghill, shall not cause or suffer any
offensive matter to run out of such manufactory, brewery,
slaughter-house, knacker's yard, butcher's or fishmonger's shop,
or dunghill, into any uncovered place, whether or not surrounded
by a wall or fence, so as to be likely to become a nuisance.
For the prevention of the keeping of animals on any premises in such
place or manner as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to
health.
8. The occupier of any premises shall not keep nor allow
to be kept any animal on such premises in such a place or in
such a manner as to pollute, or to be likely to pollute, any water
supplied for use or used or likely to be used by man for drinking
or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drink for the use of
man, or any water used or likely to be used in any dairy.
9. Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or
whereon any horse or other beast of draught or burden, or any
cattle may be kept, shall deposit or cause to be deposited in a
suitable receptacle all dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive
or noxious matter other than urine and other liquid filth, which
may, from time to time, be produced in the keeping of any such
animal in such building or upon such premises.
He shall likewise provide in connexion with such building
or premises a sufficient drain, constructei in such a manner,
and of such materials, and maintained at all times in such a