Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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The person in occupation of or having the charge,
management, or control of the premises, or if there is no such
person, then any person in occupation of or having the charge,
management, or control of any part of the premises, and in
the case of any premises the whole of which is let in
tenements or to lodgers, the person receiving the rent
payable by the tenants or lodgers, either on his own account
or as the agent of another person, shall for the purposes of
this By-law be deemed to be the occupier.
3. Every person who shall remove any snow from any
premises on to any carriageway shall deposit the same in
such a manner and with such precautions as to prevent any
accumulation thereof in any channel or upon any paved
crossing.
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 uuless 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