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to be deposited iu a suitable receptacle all dung, manure, soil, filth, or other
offensive or noxious matter other than wine 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 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 buildings or
premises all dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive or obnoxious 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 cow-house 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.
B.—Receptacles for Dung.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891. Section 39.
1. The County Council shall make bye-laws with respect to water-closets,
earth-closets, privies, ash-pits, cesspools, and the receptacles for dung, and the
proper accessories thereof, in connection with buildings, whether constructed before
or after the passing of this Act.
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3. It shall be the duty of every Sanitary Authority to observe and enforce
the bye-laws under this Section, and any direction given by the Sanitary Authority
under this Act shall be in accordance with the said bye-laws, and so far as they are
not so in accordance shall bo void.
London County Council's Bi/e-laws as to Receptacles for Dung.
24. A person shall not use as a receptacle for dung any receptacle so constructed
or placed that one of its sides shall be formed by the wall of any room used for
human habitation, or under a dwelling-house, factory, workshop, or workplace, and
he shall not use any receptacle in such a situation that it would be likely to cause a
nuisance or become injurious or dangerous to health.
25. Every owner of any existing receptacle for dung shall, before the expiration
of six months from the date of the confirmation of these bye-laws, and every person
who shall construct a receptacle for dung, shall cause such receptacle to be so