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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health,—1893. 51
Public Health (London) Act, 1891
SECTION 16.
BYE-LAWS, made by the Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark,
in the Administrative County of London.
Interpretation of Terms.
1. Throughout these bye-laws the expression "The Sanitary Authority" means
the Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, in the County of
London.
For the prevention of nuisances arising from any snow, ice, salt, dust, ashes, rubbish,
offal, carrion, fish or filth, or other matter or thing in any street.
2. The occupier of any premises fronting, adjoining, or abutting on any street not
repairable by the inhabitants at large shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the
cessation of any fall of snow, remove or cause to be removed from the footways and
pavements adjoining such premises and forming part of such street all snow fallen or
accumulated on such footways and pavements in such a manner and with such precautions
as will prevent any undue accumulation in any channel or carriageway or
upon any paved crossing
The person in occupation of, or having the charge, management, or control of the
premises, or if there is no such person, then any person in occupation of or having the
charge, management, or control of any part of the premises, and in the case of any
premises the whole of which is let in tenements or to lodgers, the person receiving the
rent payable by the tenants or lodgers, either on his own account or as the agent of
another person, shall for the purposes of this bye-law be deemed to be the occupier.
3. Every person who shall remove any snow from any premises on to any
carriageway shall deposit the same in such a manner and with suoh 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 footway or
pavement in any street, he shall forthwith remove such snow from such footway or
pavement.
• 4. Every person who shall throw any salt upon any snow on the footway 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 footway 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 carriageway of such street elsewhere than in
proximity to any channel at the side of such carriageway, 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 carriageway of any street,
unless 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 carriageway, shall forthwith effectually remove
the whole of the deposit, but he shall not place any part thereof on the footway of
such street or any paved crossing, or on the carriageway 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 carriageway, 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.