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St Giles (Camberwell) 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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Weekly removal
of house refuse.
7. The Sanitary Authority shall cause to
be removed not less frequently than once in every week
the house refuse produced on all premises within their
district.
Offensive
refuse.
8. Where, for the purposes of subsequent
removal, any cargo, load, or collection of offensive refuse
has been temporarily brought to or deposited in any place
within a sanitary district, the owner (whether a Sanitary
Authority or any other person) or consignee of such cargo,
load, or collection of refuse, or any person who mar have
undertaken to deliver the same, or Avho is in charge of the
same, shall not without a reasonable excuse permit or allow
or cause such refuse to remain in such place for a longer
period than twenty-four hours.
Provided (a) that this By-law shall not apply in cases
where the place of temporary deposit is distant at least
one hundred yards from any street, and is distant at least
three hundred yards from any building or premises used
wholly or partly for human habitation, or as a school, or
as a place of public worship, or of public resort or public
assembly, or from any building or premises in or on which
any person may be employed in manufacture, trade or
business, or from any public park or other open space
dedicated or used for the purposes of recreation, or from
any reservoir or stream used lor the purposes of domestic
water supply; (b) that this By-law shall not prohibit the
deposit, within the prescribed distances, of road slop
unmixed with stable manure for any period not exceeding
one week, which may be necessary for the separation of
water therefrom.