Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1893 (consisting of 52 weeks) being the tenth annual report
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Weekly
removal of
house
refuse.
Offensive
refuse.
Authority may prescribe by written notice served upon the
occupier, a movable receptacle, in which shall be placed for the
purposes of removal by or on behalf of the Sanitary Authority, the
house refuse which has accumulated on such premises since the
preceding collection by such authority.
The Sanitary Authority shall collect such refuse, or cause the
same to be collected, between such hours of the day as they have
fixed and notified by public announcement in their district.
7. The Sanitary Authority shall cause to be removed not less
frequently than once in every week the house refuse produced on
all premises within their district.
8. Where, for the purposes of subsequent removal, any cargo,
load, or collection of offensive refuse has been temporarily brought
to or deposited in any place within a sanitary district, the owner
(whether a Sanitary Authority or any other person) or consignee
of such cargo, load, or collection of refuse, or any person who may
have undertaken to deliver the same, or who is in charge of the
same, shall not without a reasonable excuse permit or allow or
cause such refuse to remain in such place for a longer period than
twenty-four hours.
Provided (a) that this bye-law shall not apply in cases where
the place of temporary deposit is distant at least one hundred
yards from any street, and is distant at least three hundred yards
from any building or premises used wholly or partly for human
habitation, or as a school, or as a place of public worship or of
public resort or public assembly, or from any building or premises
in or on which any person may be employed in any manufacture,
trade, or business, or from any public park or other open space
dedicated or used for the purposes of recreation, or from any
reservoir or stream used for the purposes of domestic water supply;
(b) that this bye-law shall not prohibit the deposit, within the
prescribed distances, of road slop unmixed with stable manure for
any period not exceeding one week, which may be necessary for
the separation of water therefrom.
9. Where a Sanitary Authority or some person on their
behalf shall remove any offensive refuse from any street or
premises within their district, such Sanitary Authority or such
person shall properly destroy by fire or otherwise dispose of such
refuse in such manner as to prevent nuisance.
Provided always that this bye law shall not be deemed to
require or permit any Sanitary Authority or person to dispose of
or destroy by fire any night-soil, swine's-dung or cow-dung.
10. A Sanitary Authority or any person on their behalf who
shall remove any offensive refuse from any street or premises
within their district shall not deposit such refuse, otherwise than
in the course of removal, at a less distance than three hundred
yards from any two of more buildings used wholly or partly for
human habitation or from any building used as a school, or as a
place of public resort or public assembly, or in which any person
may be employed in any manufacture, trade or business, or from
any public park or other open space dedicated or used for the