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, vital statistics, &c., of the Parish of St. Luke, Middlesex for the year 1893
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He shall likewise provide in 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.
Provision of
Drain.
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 the occupier of any stable or cowhouse from
which the Sanitary Authority remove or contract for
the removal of manure and other refuse matter.
Removal of
Dung
periodically.
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.
Impervious
Floor
to be provided
for Stables,
etc.
As to the Paving of Yards and Open Spaces in connection
with Dwelling-Houses.
10. The owner of every dwelling-house in connection
with which there is any yard or open space shall, where
it is necessary for the prevention or remedy of insanitary
conditions that all or part of such yard or open space
shall be paved, forthwith cause the same to be properly
paved with a hard, durable, and impervious pavement,
evenly and closely laid upon a sufficient bed of good
concrete, and so sloped to a properly constructed channel
as effectually to carry off all rain or waste water therefrom
; and he shall cause such pavement to be kept in
proper repair.
Owner to
Pave Yard
Penalties.
11. Every person who shall offend against any of
the foregoing Bye-laws shall be liable for every such
Penalties.