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Fulham 1893

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1893

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Provided also that it shall not be an offence against this bye-law to
lay any ashes or other suitable material in any street in time of frost to
prevent accidents.
6. 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 caused 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, slaughter-house,
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 keep
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 receptable all dung, manure,
soil, filth, or other offensive or noxious matter other than urine and other