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Shoreditch 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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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, so as to be likely to become a
nuisance.
For the prevention of keeping oj animals on any premises in such place or manner as to be a
nuisance or injurious or dangerous to health.
8. The occupier of any premises shall not keep nor allow to be kept any animal
on such premises in such a place or in such a manner as to pollute, or to be likely to
pollute, any water supplied for use or used or likely to be used by man for drinking or
domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drink for the use of man, or any water used
or likely to be used in any dairy.
9. Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or whereon any horse or
othe" beast of draught or burden, or any cattle may be kept, shall deposit or cause
to be deposited in a suitable receptacle all dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive
or noxious matter other than urine 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, ac 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 building or premises all dung, manure,
soil, filth, or other offensive or noxious matter produced in or upon such building or
premises, and deposited in a receptacle as hereinbefore required. Providing that this
requirement shall not apply to the occupier of any stable or cowhouse from which the
Sanitary Authority remove or contract for the removal of manure or 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.
As to the paving of yards and open spaces in connection with dwelling-houses.
10. The owner of every dwelling-house in connection with which there is any
yard or open space shall, where it is necessary for the prevention or remedy of