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LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
Bye.-laws made by the London County Council under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Bye-laws under Section 16 (2).
For prescribing the times for the removal or carriage by
road or water of any faecal, or offensive or noxious
matter or liquid in or through London, and providing
that the carriage or vessel used therefore shall be
properly constructed and covered so as to prevent the
escape of any such matter or liquid, and as to prevent
any nuisance arising therefrom.
Faecal and
offensive
matter.
1. Every person who shall remove or carry by road or water
in or through London any faecal or offensive or noxious matter or
liquid, whether such matter or liquid shall be in course of removal
or carriage from within or without or through London, shall
not remove or carry such matter or liquid in or through
London except between the hours of 4 o'clock and 10
o'clock in the forenoon during the months of March, April,
May, June, July, August, September, and October, and except
between the hours of 6 o'clock in the forenoon and 12
o'clock at noon during the months of November, December,
January, and February. Such person shall use a suitable carriage
or vessel properly constructed and furnished with a sufficient
covering so as to prevent the escape of any such matter or liquid
therefrom, and so as to prevent any nuisance arising therefrom.
Provided that this bye-law shall not apply to the carriage of
horse dung manure.
Closing
and filling
up of cesspools
and
privies.
As to the closing and filling up of cesspools and privies.
2. Any person who shall by any works or by any structural
alteration of any premises render the further use of a cesspool or
privy unnecessary, and the owner of any premises on which shall
be situated a disused cesspool or privy, or a cesspool or privy
which has become unnecessary, shall completely empty such cesspool
or privy of all faecal or offensive matter which it may contain,
and shall completely remove so much of the floor, walls and roof
of such privy or cesspool as can safely be removed, and all pipes
and drains leading thereto or therefrom, or connected therewith,
and any earth or other material contaminated by such faecal or
offensive matter. He shall completely close and fill up the cesspool
with good concrete or with suitable dry clean earth, dry clean
brick rubbish, or other dry clean material, and where the walls of
such cesspool shall not have been completely removed, he shall
cover the surface of the space so filled up with earth, rubbish, or
material, with a layer of good concrete six inches thick. .