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St Giles (Camberwell) 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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produced in the keeping of any such animal in such building
or upon such premises.
He shall likewise provide in connexion 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, as 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. Provided 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 oil 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 connexion with
dwelling-houses.