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 year ending December 31st, 1893
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in or on which any person may be employed in any manufacture,
trade, or business, or from any public park or other open space
dedicated or used for the purposes of recreation, or from any
reservoir or stream used for the purposes of domestic water
supply; (b) that this bye-law shall not prohibit the deposit,
within the prescribed distances, of road slop unmixed with stable
manure for any period not exceeding one week, which may be
necessary for the separation of water therefrom.
9. Where a Sanitary Authority or some person on their
behalf shall remove any offensive refuse from any street or
premises within their district, such Sanitary Authority or such
person shall properly destroy by fire or otherwise dispose of such
refuse in such manner as to prevent nuisance.
Provided always that this bye-law shall not be deemed to
require or permit any Sanitary Authority or person to dispose of
or destroy by fire any night-soil, swine's-dung or cow-dung.
10. A Sanitary Authority or any person on their behalf
who shall remove any offensive refuse from any street or premises
within their district shall not deposit such refuse, otherwise than
in the course of removal, at a less distance than three hundred
yards from any two or more buildings used wholly or partly for
human habitation or from any building used as a school, or as a
place of public resort or public assembly, or in which any person
may be employed in any manufacture, trade or business, or from
any public park or other open space dedicated or used for the
purpose of recreation, or from any reservoir or stream used for
the purposes of domestic water supply.
Provided always that this bye-law shall not be deemed to
prohibit such deposit of such refuse for a period of twenty-four
hours, when such refuse is deposited for the purpose of being
destroyed by fire, in accordance with any bye-law in that behalf.
11. For the purposes of the foregoing bye-laws the expression
"offensive refuse" means any refuse, whether "house
refuse," "trade refuse," or "street refuse," in such a condition as
to be or to be liable to become offensive.