Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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(9) The regulations for the daily removal
of hog-wash and all kinds of animal
and vegetable refuse from taverns
and restaurants should be stringently
enforced.
(10) The trade refuse from fish and poultry
shops should be kept in covered iron
skips until the scavengers are ready
to collect it, and in order to prevent
any nuisance arising from the same,
persons interested should be advised
to sprinkle all offal, &c., with a oneper-cent.
solution of Permanganate
of Potash during the time it is retained
in their shops.
(11) The street orderly bins should be
emptied daily, and their contents
occasionally deodorized.
(12) The scavengers should be directed to
keep the dust carts covered with the
tarpaulins in travelling through the
public streets.