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No person shall, except as provided by Section 16, Subsection
5, of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, whether
in the process of such removal or otherwise slop, spill or
place, or cause, permit, or suffer to be slopped, spilled or
placed, or to remain upon any footway or carriageway,
whether repairable by the inhabitants at large or not, any
dust, ashes, rubbish, offal, carrion, fish, slops, washings,
filth, straw, waste paper litter, stable or other refuse, or
other like matter or thing. Provided that if any such
matter or thing as aforesaid shall have been slopped or
spilled, or shall have fallen by accident during the process
of removal as aforesaid, and the person so removing the
same shall immediately thereafter clear away such matter
or thing, and thoroughly sweep and cleanse such footway
or carriageway, he shall not be liable to any penalty for an
infringement of this By-law.
6. The occupier of any premises abutting on or near
to any street, may, in case of sickness, lay or cause to be
laid upon the carriageway of such street clean straw, tan, or
other matter to prevent noise, upon giving one day's clear
notice in writing to the sanitary authority of his intention
to do so, or in case of emergency may lay or cause such
material to be laid without previous notice, and in such case
shall give notice thereof to such authority within 12 hours
after such material shall have been laid. Such occupier
shall cause such material so laid as aforesaid to be kept evenly
distributed over the surface of the part of the street intended
to be covered, and shall cause any material so laid to be
renewed within 48 hours after the receipt of a notice in
writing, signed by the Surveyor to the Sanitary Authority
requiring him so to do, and shall, when occasion ceases,