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52 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
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.
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 comprising a dunghill, shall not
cause or suffer any offensive matter to run out of such manufactory, brewery, slaughterhouse,
knacker's yard, butcher's or fishmonger's shop, or dunghill, into any uncovered
place, whether or not surrounded by a wall or fence, so as to be likely to become a
nuisance.
For the prevention of the keeping of animals on any premises in such place or manner as
to be a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health.
8. The occupier of any premises shall not keep nor allow to be kept any animal on
such premises in such a place or in such a manner as to pollute any water supplied for
use or used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes, or for
manufacturing drink for the use of man, or any water used or likely to be used in any
daily.
9. Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or whereon any horse or other
beast of draught or burden, or any cattle may be 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 any connection 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 herein-before required. Provided that this
requirement shall not apply to the occupier of any stable or cowhouse 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 herein-before
required to be provided.