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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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premises, every catchpit or fixed receptacle
for blood, dung, offal, or other refuse, and
every water-closet, privy, or urinal, and shall,
as soon as conveniently may be, close every
opening from such Slaughter-house or Pound
to any such catchpit, receptacle, water-closet,
privy, or urinal.
BYE-LAW V.
Every occupier of a Slaughter-house shall
provide such Slaughter-house with a suitable
cistern or cisterns of adequate capacity for the
reception or storage of a sufficient supply of
water for use in such Slaughter-house, or
where practicable shall provide such
Slaughter-house with suitable fittings and
apparatus for a constant supply of water
for use in such Slaughter-house. He shall
in every case cause all pipes, fittings, and
apparatus for the delivery of water for use in
such Slaughter-house to be so constructed
and arranged as to admit of the delivery of
such water in such a manner as to enable
every part of the pavement or floor of such
Slaughter-house, and the surface of every