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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such precautions as to prevent any accumulation
thereof in any channel or upon any
paved crossing.
If, in the process of such removal, any snow
be deposited upon any foot-way or pavement
in any street, he shall forthwith remove such
snow from such foot-way or pavement.
4. Every person who shall throw any salt
upon any snow on the foot-way of any street
shall do so in such quantity and in such manner
as effectually to dissolve the whole of such snow,
and he shall forthwith effectually remove from
the foot-way the whole of the deposit resulting
from the mixture of the salt with the snow.
He shall not place any part of such deposit on
the carriage-way of such street elsewhere than
in proximity to any channel at the side of such
carriage-way, and he shall not remove any part
of the same into any such channel unless it is
sufficiently liquid to flow along such channel.
No person shall throw any salt upon any
snow on the carriage-way of any street, unless