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Poplar 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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the purposes of sale or of preparation for sale or with a view to future
sale:—
(a) No urinal, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ashpit or other
like sanitary convenience shall be within such room, shop
or other part of a building or shall communicate therewith
except through the open air or through an intervening
ventilated space.
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such room, shop or other
part of a building shall be in direct communication with
and directly discharge into any such sanitary convenience.
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage matter shall
have any inlet or opening within such room, shop or
other part of a building.
(d) No such room, shop or other part of a building shall be
used as a sleeping place, and so far as may be reasonably
necessary to prevent risk of the infection or contamination
of any such article as aforesaid, no sleeping place shall
adjoin such room, shop or other part of a building and
communicate therewith except through the open air or
through an intervening ventilated space.
(e) Refuse or filth whether solid or liquid shall not be deposited
or allowed to accumulate in any such room, shop or other
part of a building except so far as may be reasonably
necessary for the proper carrying on of the trade or
business.
(/) Due cleanliness shall be observed in regard to such room,
shop or other part of a building, and all articles, apparatus
and utensils therein, and shall be observed by persons
engaged in such room, shop or other part of a building.
(2) If any person occupies or lets or knowingly suffers to be occupied
any such room, shop or other part of a building wherein any of the
conditions prohibited by this section exist, or does or knowingly permits
any act or thing therein in contravention of this section, he shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding for the first offence twenty
shillings, and for every subsequent offence five pounds, and in either case
to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.