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 Rotherhithe]
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any such carriageway shalt forthwith effectually remove the whole of the deposit, but he shall
not place any part thereof on the footway of such street or on any paved crossing, or on the
carriageway in such a manner as to interfere with the carriage traffic, nor shall he place any pari
thereof in the channel at the side of the carriageway, unless it is sufficiently liquid to flow aloni;
such channel.
5. A person shall not throw, cast, or lay, or cause to be thrown, cast, or laid, any dust,
ashes, rubbish, offal, carrion, fish, or filth or other like matter or thing in or upon any part of a
street.
Provided always that this byelaw shall not apply to any act which is for the time being an
offence within the meaning of any public general statute, or of any byelaw made by the London
County Council and in force in the place where such act is done.
Provided also that it shall not be an offence against this byelaw to lay any ashes or other
suitable material in any street in time of frost to prevent accidents.
6. Every person who shall lay or cause to be laid in any street any litter or other matter
in case of sickness to prevent noise, shall lay the same so that it may be evenly distributed over
the surface of the part of the street intended to be covered, and shall, when the occasion ceases,
within forty-eight hours thereafter remove or cause to be removed from such street the litter or
other matter so laid in such street.
For preventing nuisances arising from any offensive matter running out oj any manufactory, brewery,
slaughterhouse, knacker's yard, butcher s or fishmonger's shop, or dunghill, into any uncovered
place, whether or not surrounded, by wall or fence.
7. The occupier of a manufactory, brewery, slaughterhouse, knacker's yard, butcher's or
fishmonger's shop, or of any premises comprising a dunghill, shall not cause or suffer any
offensive matter to run out of such manufactory, brewery, slaughterhouse, 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 the keeping of 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 or 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 watwe