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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Provided also that it shall not be an offence
against this Bye-law to lay any ashes or other
suitable material in any street in time of frost
to prevent accidents.
6. Every person who shall lay or cause to be
laid in any street any litter or other matter in
case of sickness to prevent noise, shall lay the
same so that it may be evenly distributed over
the surface of the part of the street intended
to be covered, and shall, when the occasion
ceases, within forty-eight hours thereafter,
remove or cause to be removed from such
street the litter or other matter so laid in such
street.
For preventing Nuisances arising from any
offensive matter running out of any manufactory,
brewery, slaughter-house, knacker's
yard, butcher's or fishmonger's shop, or
dunghill, into any uncovered place, whether
or not surrounded by a wall or fence.
7. The occupier of a manufactory, brewery,
slaughter-house, knacker's yard, butcher's or
fishmonger's shop, or of any premises