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St Luke 1893

Report on the sanitary condition, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1893

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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 such precautions as to
prevent any accumulation thereof in any channel or upon
any paved crossing.
Channel and
Crossing to be
kept clear.
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.
If Salt used for
dissolving
Snow, deposit
to be
forthwith
removed.
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 on 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.
Salt
not to be used
in certain
circumstances.
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.
Throwing
Refuse in Street
prohibited ;
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