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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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liquid filth which may, from time to time, be produced in the keeping of
any such animal in such building or upon such premises.
He shall likewise provide in connection with such building or premises
a sufficient drain, constructed in such a manner, and of such materials, and
maintained at all times in such a condition, 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 caused 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 cowhouse
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 connection with dwellinghouses.
10. The owner of every dwelling-house in connection 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