London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1894
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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the premises wherever it may be practicable
at a reasonable cost to construct the gulley
in such a situation. In the case of premises
hereafter to be erected or used as a Slaughterhouse,
the situation of the gulley shall be outside
the premises.
BYE-LAW II.
Every occupier of a Slaughter-house shall
cause such Slaughter-house to be drained by
a glazed pipe drain, not less than six inches
in diameter, set in concrete and jointed in
cement or otherwise made impermeable,
and communicating directly with a public
sewer. For the purpose of affording
adequate facilities for the inspection and
cleansing of the drain, he shall cause a
sufficient number of suitable apertures with
proper covers to be formed at convenient
intervals in the course of the drain outside
the Slaughter-house. He shall cause the
gulley at the inlet to the drain to be
trapped with a stoneware syphon-trap, or
other trap of suitable material and appropriate
construction, and to be covered with