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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Daily removal 6. Where a Sanitary Authority arrange for the daily
of house
refuse. removal of house refuse in their district or in any part thereof,
the occupier of any premises in such district or part thereof on
which any house refuse may from time to time accumulate shall,
at such hour of the day as the Sanitary Authority shall fix and
notify by public announcement in their district, deposit on the
kerbstone or on the outer edge of the footpath immediately in
front of the house or in a conveniently accessible position on the
premises, as the Sanitary Authority may prescribe by written
notice served upon the occupier, a movable receptacle, in which
shall be placed, for the purposes of removal by or on behalf of
the Sanitary Authority, the house refuse which has accumulated
on such premises since the preceding collection by such
authority.
The Sanitary Authority shall collect such refuse, or cause
the same to be collected, between such hours of the day as they
have fixed and notified by public announcement in their district.
Weekly
removal of
house refuse 7. The Sanitary Authority shall cause to be removed not
frequently than once in every week the house refuse
produced on all premises within their district.
Offensive 8. Where, for the purposes of subsequent removal, any
refuse. cargo, load, or collection of offensive refuse has been temporarily
brought to or deposited in any place within a sanitary district,
the owner (whether a Sanitary Authority or any other person) or
consignee of such cargo, load, or collection of refuse, or any
person who may have undertaken to deliver the same, or who is
in charge of the same, shall not without a reasonable excuse
permit or allow or cause such refuse to remain in such place for
a longer period than twenty-four hours.
Provided (a) that this bye-law shall not apply in cases where
the place of temporary deposit is distant at least one hundred
yards from any street, and is distant at least three hundred yards
from any building or premises used wholly or partly for human
habitation, or as a school, or as a place of public worship or of
public resort or public assembly, or from any building or premises