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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kept, shall deposit or cause to be deposited in
a suitable receptacle all dung, manure, soil,
filth, or other offensive or noxious matter,
other than urine and other liquid filth, which
may, from time to time, be produced in the
keeping of any such animal in such building or
upon such premises.
He shall likewise provide in connexion with
such building or premises a sufficient drain,
constructed in such a manner, and of such
materials, and maintained at all times in such
a condition, as effectually to carry away all
urine and liquid filth, or refuse therefrom.
Except where the Sanitary Authority by
notice duly given under the statutory provision
in that behalf shall have otherwise required,
he shall once at least in every week remove or
cause to be removed from such building or
premises all dung, manure, soil, filth, or other
offensive or noxious matter, produced in or
upon such building, or premises, and deposited
in a receptacle as hereinbefore required. Provided
that this requirement shall not apply to