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Shoreditch 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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If in the process of such removal any snow be deposited upon any footway or
pavement in any street, he shall forthwith remove such snow from such footway or
pavement.
4. Every person who shall throw any salt upon any snow on the footway of any
street shall do so in such quantity and in such manner as effectually to dissolve the
whole of such snow, and he shall forthwith effectually remove from the footway the
whole of the deposit resulting from the mixture of the salt with the snow. He shall
not place any part of such deposit on the carriageway of such street elsewhere than
in proximity to any channel at the side of such carriageway, and he shall not remove
any part of the same into any such channel unless it is sufficiently liquid to flow along
such channel.
No person shall throw any salt upon any snow on the carriageway of any street
unless it shall be practicable forthwith effectually to remove the whole of the deposit
resulting from the mixture of the salt with the snow. Every person who shall throw
any salt upon any snow on any such carriageway shall forthwith effectually remove
the whole of the deposit, but he shall not place any part thereof on the footway of
such street or on any paved crossing, or on the carriageway in such a manner as to
interfere with the carriage traffic, nor shall he place any part thereof in the channel
at the side of the carriageway unless it is sufficiently liquid to flow along such channel.
5. A person shall not throw, cast, or lay, or cause to be thrown, cast, laid, any
dust, ashes, rubbish, offal, carrion, fish, or filth, or other like matter or thing in or upon
any part of a street.
Provided always that this bye-law shall not apply to any act which is for the time
being an offence within the meaning of any public general statute, or of any bye-law
made by the London County Council and in force in the place where such act is done.
Provided also that it shall not be an offence against this bye-law to lay any ashes
or other suitable material in any street in time of frost to prevent accidents.
6. Every person who shall lay or cause to be laid in any street any litter or other
matter in case of sickness to prevent noise, shall forthwith give notice thereof to the
Sanitary Authority, and shall lay the same so that it may be evenly distributed over
the surface of the part of the street intended to be covered, and shall, when the
occasion ceases, within forty-eight hours thereafter, remove or cause to be removed
from such street the litter or other matter so laid on such street.
For preventing nuisances jrum any njensive matter running out of any manufactory, brewery,
slauyhter-House, knacker's yard, butcher's or fishmonger's shop, or dunghill, into any
uncovered place, whether or not surrounded by a wall or fence.
7. The occupier of a manufactory, brewery, slaughter-house, knacker's yard,
butcher's or fishmonger's shop, or of any premises comprising a dunghill, shall not
cause or suffer any offensive matter to run out of such manufactory, brewery,