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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the occupier of any stable or cow-house from
which the Sanitary Authority remove or contract
for the removal of manure and other refuse
matter.
Where, for the purpose of preventing the
keeping of any horse or other beast of draught
or burden, or any cattle on any premises so as
to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to
health, it is necessary that the floor of the
building in which such animal is kept should
be impervious to liquid matter, no person
shall keep any animal in such building unless
or until the floor thereof shall have been paved
with a hard and impervious pavement evenly
and closely laid, and so sloped as to effectually
carry off all liquid matter therefrom to a
properly-trapped inlet to the drain hereinbefore
required to be provided.
As to the paving of yards and open spaces in
connexion with dwelling-houses.
10. The owner of every dwelling-house in
connexion with which there is any yard or
open space, shall, where it is necessary for the
prevention or remedy of insanitary conditions