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. Saviour's]
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without proper precautions against spreading the
disease, in any street, public place, shop, inn &c to
be liable to a tine of £5.
Section 69. Any such person milking any animal, or picking
fruit, or engaging in any occupation connected
with food or carrying on any trade or business in such
manner as to be likely to spread the infectious disease
to be liable to a tine of £10.
Section 72. Any person retaining unburied, without,
sanction of a Medical Officer, &c., for more than 48
hours, in a room used as a dwelling place, or sleeping
place, or work-room, the body of a person who has died
Of any dangerous infectious disease, to be liable to a
fine of £5.
Tha Board, as the Sanitary Authority for the District, is
charged with the duty of making bye-laws for the following-
Section 16. (1) The prevention of nuisances arising from
snow, ice, salt, dust, ashes, rubbish, offal, carrion,
fish, or filth, or other matter or thing in any street.
For preventing nuisances arising from any offensive
matter running out of any manufactory, brewery,
slaughter-house, knacker's yard, butcher's or fishmonger's
shop, or dunghill, into any uncovered place,
whether or not surrounded by a wall or fence.
For the prevention of the keeping of animals on any
premises in such place or manner as to be a nuisancc
or dangerous to health.
As to the paving of yards and open spaces in connexion
with dwelling houses.
Seetion8(9. (9) With respect to the keeping of waterclosets
supplied with sufficient water for their eftective
action.
Section 50. For securing the cleanliness and freedom from
pollution of tanks, cisterns, and other receptacles
for Storing of water, used or likely to be used by man for
drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing
drink for the use of man.
Section 66. (3) For removing to any hospital, to which the
Authority are entitled to remove, patients, and for
keeping in that hospital, so long as maybe necessary,
persons brought within their district by any vessel,
who are infected with a dangerous infectious
disease
Section 94. For fixing the number of persons who may
occupy a house, or part of a house, which is let m
lodgings or occupied by members of more Than one
family, and for the separation of the sexes in a house so
let or occupied.