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Hackney 1893

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1893

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or cause to be removed from the footways and pavements adjoining
such premises and forming part of such street all snow fallen or
accumulated on such footways and pavements in such a manner and
with such precautions as will prevent any undue accumulation in any
channel or carriageway or upon any paved crossing.
The person in occupation of or having the charge, management, or
control of the premises, or if there is no such person, then any person
in occupation of or having the charge, management, or control of any
part of the premises, and in the case of any premises the whole of
which is let in tenements or to lodgers, the person receiving the rent
payable by the tenants or lodgers, either on his own account or as the
agent of another person, shall for the purposes of this bye-law be
deemed to be the occupier.
3. Every person who shall remove any snow from any premises on
to any carriageway shall deposit the same in such a manner and with
such precautions as to prevent any accumulation thereof in any channel
or upon any paved crossing.
If in the process of such removal any snow be deposited upon any
footway or pavement in any street, he shall forthwith remove such
snow from such footway or pavement.
4. Every person who shall throw any salt upon any snow on the
footway of any street shall do so in such quantity and in such manner
as effectually to dissolve the whole of such snow, and he shall forthwith
effectually remove from the footway the whole of the deposit resulting
from the mixture of the salt with the snow. He shall not place any
part of such deposit on the carriageway 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 interefere 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.