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Hackney 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1899

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Offensive TRades.
Sec. 19.—Add fried fish shop and marine store as offensive trades,
and frame bye laws for their regulation.
Removal of Refuse.
Sec. 35.—Reduce time for compliance with notice from 48 to 24
hours, and give local authority power to remove the refuse,
if offensive, at the cost of owner or occupier.
Sec. 36. —Give local authority power to charge for the removal of
manure or dung from stables, etc.
Repair of Drain and Sanitary Conveniences.
Sec. 42.—Make it an offence to repair a drain or sanitary
convenience without giving notice to the local authority.
No new house to be occupied without certificate of its
sanitary condition from the local authority.
Food.
Sec. 47.—Add section that premises where food is manufactured, or
prepared, or stored, should be under regulation by bye-laws
of local authority. Special section relating to ice-cream
vendors.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
(a) notification.
Sec. 55.—That medical partners should only be required to send
one certificate, and be entitled to one fee only for each case
notified.
Puerperal Fever to be defined to include Septicaemia,
Pyaemia, Septic Peritonitis, Septic Metrtis, and other acute
septic inflammations in the pelvis, occurring as the direct
result of child-birth.