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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shall forthwith effectually remove from the footway the whole of
the deposit resulting from the mixture of salt with the snow. He
shall not place any part of such deposit on the carrriageway 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.
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.
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.
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 byelaw
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, 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,
so as to be likely to become a nuisance.