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Lambeth 1907

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

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4. To enable the Sanitary Authorities to require the surrender
of offensive trade refuse, and to arrange for the
temporary storage and systematic removal thereof;
5. To enable the Council to make by-laws, to be enforced
by Sanitary Authorities, with regard to the proper
regulation of the businesses of a seller of fried fish, fish
curer, and marine store dealer;
6. To enable the Council to pay one-half of the salaries of
female health visitors appointed by Sanitary Authorities
in London.
In respect of No. 2, the regulations are to be drafted on the
following suggested lines:—
a. No sanitary convenience, or ash pit, shall be within, or
directly communicate with, such room or place;
b. Every cistern for supplying water to such room or place
shall be separate and distinct from any cistern for supplying
water to any sanitary convenience ;
c. No drain or pipe for carrying off fcecal or sewage matter*
shall have any inlet or opening within such room or
place;
d. No such room or place 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,
no sleeping place shall adjoin and communicate directly
with such room or place;
e. Refuse or filth, whether solid or liquid, shall not be
deposited, or allowed to accumulate, in any such room or
place;
f. No act or thing shall be done, or permitted, in any such
room or place likely to expose any such article to infection
or contamination.