Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Bow District, comprising the Parish of St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow
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such premises and forming part of such street all snow fallen or
accumulated on such footways and pavements, in such a manner and
with such precautions as will prevent any undue accumulation in any
channel or carriageway or upon any paved crossing.
The person in occupation of or having the charge, management,
or control of the premises, or if there is no such person, then any
person in occupation of or having the charge, management, or control
of any part of the premises, and in the case of any premises the
whole of which is let in tenements or to lodgers, the person receiving
the rent payable by the tenants or lodgers, either on his own account
or as the agent of another person, shall for the purposes of this
law be deemed to be the occupier.
Every person who shall remove any snow from any premises on to
any carriageway shall deposit the same in such a manner and with
such precautions as to prevent any accumulation thereof in any
channel or upon any paved crossing.
If in the process of such removal any snow be deposited upon any
footway or pavement in any street, he shall forthwith remove such
snow from such footway or pavement.
Every person who shall throw any salt upon any snow on the footway
of any street shall do so in such quantity and in such manner as
effectually to dissolve the whole of such snow, and he shall forthwith
effectually remove from the footway the whole of the deposit resulting
from the mixture of the salt with the snow. He shall not place any
part of such deposit on the carriageway of such street elsewhere than
in proximity to any channel at the side of such carriageway, and he
shall not remove any part of the same into any such channel unless
it is sufficiently liquid to flow along such channel.
No person shall throw any salt upon any snow on the carriageway
of any street, unless it shall be practicable forthwith effectually to
remove the whole of the deposit resulting from the mixture of the salt
with the snow. Every person who shall throw any salt upon any
snow on any such carriageway shall forthwith effectually remove the