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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For the prevention of the keeping of animals on any
premises in such place or manner as to be a nuisance
or injurious or dangerous to health.
8. The occupier of any premises shall not keep nor allow to
be kept any animal on such premises in such a place or in such a
manner as to pollute, or to be likely to pollute, any water supplied
for use or used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic
purposes, or for manufacturing drink for the use of man, or any
water used or likely to be used in any dairy.
9. Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or whereon
any horse or other beast of draught or burden, or any cattle
may be kept, shall deposit or cause to be deposited in a suitable
receptacle all dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive or noxious
matter other than urine and other liquid filth which may, from
time to time, be produced in the keeping of any such animal in
such building or upon such premises.
He shall likewise provide in connection with such a 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.
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.
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.
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