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Battersea 1893

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1893

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dition, as effectually to carry away all urine and liquid filth or
refuse therefrom.
Except where the Sanitary Authority by notice duly given
under the statutory provision in that behalf shall have otherwise
required, he shall, once at least in every week, remove or cause
to be removed from such building or premises all dung, manure,
soil, filth, or other offensive or noxious matter produced in or
upon such building or premises, and deposited in a receptacle as
hereinbefore required. Provided that this requirement shall not
apply to the occupier of any stable or cow-house from which the
Sanitary Authority remove or contract for the removal of manure
and other refuse matter.
Where for the purpose of preventing the keeping of any
horse or other beast of draught or burden or any cattle on any
premises so as to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to
health, it is necessary that the floor of the building in which
such animal is kept should be impervious to liquid matter, no
person shall keep any animal in such building unless or until the
floor thereof shall have been paved with a hard and impervious
pavement evenly and closely laid and so sloped as to effectually
carry off all liquid matter therefrom to a properly trapped inlet
to the drain hereinbefore required to be provided.
As to the paving of yards and open spaces in connexion with dwelling
houses.
10. The owner of every dwelling-house in connexion with
which there is any yard or open space shall, where it is necessary
for the prevention or remedy of insanitary conditions that all or
part of such yard or open space shall be paved, forthwith cause
the same to be properly paved with a hard, durable, and impervious
pavement, evenly and closely laid upon a sufficient bed of
good concrete, and so sloped to a properly constructed channel
as effectually to carry off all rain or waste water therefrom ; and
he shall cause such pavement to be kept in proper repair.