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St Pancras 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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In calculating the number of conveniences required by this order, any odd
number of persons less than 25, 40, or 60, as the case may be, shall be
reckoned as as *5, 40, or 60.
2. Every sanitary convenience shall be kept in a cleanly state, shall be
sufficiently ventilated and lighted, and shall not communicate with any workroom
except through the open air or through an intervening ventilated space ;
provided that in work-rooms in use prior to 1st January, 1903, and mechanicallv
ventilated in such manner that air cannot be drawn into the work-room through
the sanitary convenience, an intervening ventilated space shall not be required.
3. Every sanitary convenience shall be under cover and so partitioned off as
to secure privacy, and if for the use of females shall have a proper door and
fastenings.
4. The sanitary conveniences in a factory or workshop shall be so arranged
and maintained as to be conveniently accessible to all persons employed
therein at all times during their employment.
5. Where persons of both sexes are employed, the conveniences for each
sex shall be so placed or so screened that the interior shall not be visible, even
when the door of any convenience is open, from any place where persons of
the other sex have to work or pass ; and, if the convenience for one sex adjoin
those of the other sex, the approaches shall be separate.
6. This order shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1903.
7. This order may be referred to as the Sanitary Accommodation Order of
4th February, 1903.
A. Akers Douglas,
One of His Majesty's Principal Serrctarits of State.
Home Office, Whitehall,
4th February, 1903.
§ 4. By-Laws.
The London County Council passed the following :—
By-laws for the Good Rule and Government of the
County of London.
By-laws made by the London County Council in pursuance of the "provisions
of Section 23 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and Section 16 of
the Local Government Act, 1888, at a meeting of the Council held on
the 29th day of May, 1906, at which not less than two-thirds of the
whole number of the Council were present.
Waste Paper, Refuse, Adcertising Bills, Fruit, Rinds, Broken Glass, Sfc.
No person shall (1) sweep or otherwise remove from any shop, house, or
vehicle into any street any waste paper, shavings or other refuse, or being a
costermonger, newsvendor or other street trader, throw down and leave in any
street any waste paper, shavings or other refuse; (2) throw down and leave in