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St James's 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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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, three times 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 payment 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 connexion with
dwelling-houses.
10.—The owner of every dwelling-house in connexion with
which there is any yard or open space shall, where it is necessary
for the prevention or remedy of insanitary conditions that all or
part of such yard or open space shall be paved, forthwith cause the