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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it shall be practicable forthwith effectually to
remove the whole of the deposit resulting from
the mixture of the salt with the snow. Every
person who shall throw any salt upon any snow
on any such carriage-way shall forthwith effectually
remove the whole of the deposit, but he
shall not place any part thereof on the foot-way
of such street, or any paved crossing, or on the
carriage-way in such a manner as to interfere
with the carriage traffic, nor shall he place any
part thereof in the channel at the side of the
carriage-way, unless it is sufficiently liquid to
flow along such channel.
5. A person shall not throw, cast, or lay, or
cause to be thrown, cast, or laid, any dust,
ashes, rubbish, offal, carrion, fish, or filth, or
other like matter or thing in or upon any part
of a street.
Provided always that this Bye-law shall not
apply to any act which is for the time being
an offence within the meaning of any public
general statute, or of any bye-law made by the
London County Council and in force in the
place where such act is done.