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Rotherhithe 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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supplied for use or used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes, or for
manufacturing drink for the use of man, or any water used or likely to be used in any dairy.
9. Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or whereon any horse or other beast
of draught or burden, or any cattle may be kept, shall deposit or cause to be deposited in a
suitable receptacle all dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive or noxious matter other than
urine and other liquid filth which may, from time to time, be produced in the keeping of any
such animal in such building or upon such premises.
He shall likewise provide in connection 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 and 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 off 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 connection with dwelling-houses.
10. The owner of every dwelling-house in connection with which there is any yard or open
space shall, where it is necessary for the prevention or remedy of insanitary conditions that all