London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1893
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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whole of the deposit, but he shall not place any part thereof on the
footway of such street, or on any paved crossing, or on the carriageway,
in such a manner as to interfere with the carriage traffic, nor
shall he place any part thereof in the channel at the side of the
carriageway, unless it is sufficiently liquid to flow along such channel.
A person shall not throw, cast, or lay or cause to be thrown, cast
or laid, any dust, ashes, rubbish, offal, carrion, fish, or filth, or other
like matter or thing in or upon any part of a street:
Provided always that this byelaw shall not apply to any act which
is for the time being an offence within the meaning of any public
general Statute, or of any byelaw made by the London County
Council and in force in the place where such act is done:
Provided also that it shall not be an offence against this byelaw to
lay any ashes or other suitable material in any street in time of frost
to prevent accidents.
Every person who shall lay or cause to be laid in any street any
litter or other matter in case of sickness to prevent noise, shall lay
the same so that it may be evenly distributed over the surface of the
part of the street intended to be covered, and shall, when the occasion
ceases, within forty-eight hours thereafter 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.
The occupier of a manufactory, brewery, slaughter-house, knacker's
yard, butchers or fishmongers 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, knackers yard, butchers
or fishmongers 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.