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LondonCounty Council.
By-laws made by the London County Council under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
By-laws under Section 16 (2).
For prescribing the times for the removal or carriage by road or water of any
fecal, or offensive or noxious matter or liquid in or through London, and
providing that the carriage or vessel used therefor shall be properly
constructed and covered so as to prevent the escape of any such matter
or liquid, and as to prevent any nuisance arising therefrom.
Pascal and
offensive
matter.
1. Every person who shall remove or carry byroad or water in or through London
any faecal or offensive or noxious matter or liquid, whether such matter or liquid shall be
in course of removal or carriage from within or without or through London, shall not
remove or carry such matter or liquid in or through London except between the hours of
4 o'clock and 10 o'clock in the forenoon during the months of March, April, May, June,
July, August, September, and October, and except between the hours of 6 o'clock in the
forenoon and 12 o'clock at noon during the months of November, December, January, and
February. Such person shall use a suitable carriage or vessel properly constructed and
furnished with a sufficient covering so as to prevent the escape of any such matter or
liquid therefrom, and so as to prevent any nuisance arising therefrom.
Provided that this by-law shall not apply to the carriage of horse dung manure.
As to the closing and filling up of cesspools and privies.
Closing and
filling up of
cesspools
and privies.
2. Any person who shall by any works or by any structural alteration of any
premises render the further use of a cesspool or privy unnecessary, and the owner of any
premises on which shall be situated a disused cesspool or privy, or a cesspool or privy which
has become unnecessary, shall completely empty such cesspool or privy of all faecal or
offensive matter which it may contain, and shall completely remove so much of the floor,
walls, and roof of such privy or cesspool as can safely be removed, and all pipes and drains
leading thereto or therefrom, or connected therewith, and any earth or other material contaminated
by such faecal or offensive matter. He shall completely close and fill up the
cesspool with good concrete or with suitable dry clean earth, dry clean brick rubbish, or
other dry clean material, and where the walls of such cesspool shall not have been completely
removed, he shall cover the surface of the space so filled up with earth, rubbish,
or material, with a layer of good concrete six inches thick.
3. Every person who shall propose to close or fill up any cesspool or privy shall,
before commencing any works for such purpose, give to the Sanitary Authority for the
district not less than forty-eight hours notice in writing, exclusive of Sunday, Good Friday,
Christmas day, or any bank holiday, specifying the hour at which he will commence the
closing and filling up of such cesspool or privy, and during the progress of any such work
shall afford any officer of the Sanitary Authority free access to the premises for the purpose
nf insnectinc the same.
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No. 104.—Price 3d. Sold by Edward Stanford, 26 and 27, Cocksfur-atreet, Charing-cross, S.W.