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 St James's, Westminster]
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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 quantify 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 unless 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 forthwith effectually
to remove the whole of the deposit resulting from the mixture of
the salt with the snow. Every person who shall throw any salt
upon any snow on any such carriageway, shall 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 part thereof in the channel at the side
of the carriageway unless it is sufficiently liquid to flow along 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 Bye-law 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 bye-law made by the London
County Council and in force in the place where such act is done.