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for the prevention of the keeping of animals on any premises in such place or manner as to be a
nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health; and as to the paving of yards and open spaces in
connection with dwelling houses.
The county council is required to make by-laws prescribing the times and conditions of removal
of offensive and noxious matter through the streets; as to the closing and filling up of cesspools and
privies, the removal and disposal of refuse, and as to the duties of the occupier of any premises in
connection with bouse refuse so as to facilitate the removal of it by the scavengers of the sanitary
authority.
New provisions are made as to the removal of house refuse and the contents of privies, earthclosets
and cesspools. It becomes the duty of every sanitary authority to secure the due removal at
proper periods of house refuse from premises, and the due cleansing out and emptying at proper periods
of ashpits, and of earth-closets, privies and cesspools, and to give sufficient notice of the times
appointed for such removal, cleansing out and emptying. The occupier of any premises may recover a
penalty from the sanitary authority if the house refuse or the contents of any earth-closet, privy or cesspool
are not removed at the ordinary period, and if the authority fails to effect such removal within
forty-eight hours after written notice.
The removal of house and street refuse by a sanitary authority, when collected or deposited by
such authority, is deemed to be a business carried on by that authority within the meaning of the
section relating to businesses causing effluvia, and for this purpose the Council may institute proceedings
against the sanitary authority as provided in that section.
The duty of cleansing footways is made to devolve only on the sanitary authorities.
The licensing of knackers' yards is transferred to the Council.
The prohibition of the establishment of the business of a soap boiler is not to include the
establishment anew with the sanction of the Council of a business in which tallow or any animal fat or
oil other than olein is not used by admixture with alkali for the production of soap.
The duty of administering the provisions relating to the abatement of smoke nuisances are
transferred from the Commissioner of Police to the sanitary authorities. The duty of enforcing the
law relating to the consumption of smoke by steamers on the Thames devolves on the port sanitary
authority.
The provisions relating to workshops and factories are made to accord with those of the
Factory and Workshops Act, 1891, the primary duty of administering those relating to the maintenance
of workshops in proper sanitary condition devolving on the sanitary authorities.
Section 34 of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act is repealed, and its provisions embodied in
the Public Health (London) A.ct. The interpretation of the word "dairy" is made to include any
farm, farmhouse, cowshed, milk-store, milkshop, or other place from which milk is supplied, or in
which milk is kept for the purposes of sale.
The Council is required to make by-laws with respect to water-closets, earth-closets, privies,
ashpits, cesspools, and receptacles for dung, and the proper accessories thereof in connection with
buildings, whether constructed before or after the passing of the Act. Every sanitary authority is
required to make by-laws with respect to the keeping of water-closets supplied with sufficient water for
their effective action. The sanitary authorities are to require sufficient sanitary conveniences in every
factory, workshop, and work place, whether erected before or after the passing of the Act. The powers
of sanitary authorities in respect to the examination of water-closets are made to extend to ashpits,
and are amended so as to require that the works shall comply with their own by-laws and those of
the Council. The Act provides for a penalty to be imposed on any person injuring or improperly
fouling any sanitary convenience used in common by the occupiers of two or more separate houses or
by other persons; and when any such convenience or the approaches thereto, or the walls, floors, seats
or fittings thereof are a nuisance or annoyance to any inhabitant of the district for want of proper
cleansing, any person having the use thereof in common who is in default, or in the absence of
knowledge as to who is in default, each of the persons having such use thereof is liable to penalty.
For the purpose of the provision of public lavatories and ashpits and public sanitary conveniences by a
sanitary authority, the subsoil of any road, exclusive of the footway adjoining any building or the
curtilage of a building, is vested in the sanitary authority. The sanitary authorities are empowered to
make regulations with respect to the management of public lavatories and ashpits and public sanitary
conveniences, to let the same for any term not exceeding three years, and to charge fees for the use of
any public lavatories or water-closets.
The power of medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors to seize unsound food is extended
to any such article, whether solid or liquid, intended for the food of man, and sold or exposed for sale or
deposited in any place for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale. A justice is also enabled to
condemn any article liable to be seized by the officers. Opportunity is given to butchers and others to
procure the removal, by the sanitary authority, as trade refuse, of any article in his possession which
has become unfit for food. When a person is twice convicted within 12 months of having knowingly
and wilfully sold or exposed for sale any unsound food, the magistrate may order that a notice of the
facts be affixed to his premises for a period not exceeding 21 days.
No newly erected house and no house which is pulled down to or below the ground floor and
rebuilt is to be occupied until the sanitary authority have certified that it has a proper and sufficient
water supply. A water company cutting off the water supply to any house is required within 24 hours
to give notice to the sanitary authority. The sanitary authorities are required to make by-laws for
securing the cleanliness and freedom from pollution of tanks, cisterns, and other receptacles used for
storing of water used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing
drink for the use of man.
The provisions as to notification of cases of infectious disease are extended so as to require the
notification of cases occurring in all hospitals other than those belonging to the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, except in cases where the illness has been previously notified. The notification certificate is to contain
particulars as to the sex and age of the patient, and whether the case occurs in the private practice of