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St Saviour's (Southwark) 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Saviour's]

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Ventilation.
Ditto.
Removal of
Infectious
Diseaso.
16. The landlord of a lodging-house shall provide adequate
means of ventilation in or in connexion with every common
passage or staircase in such house, and shall cause such means
of ventilation to be maintained at all times in good order.
17. The landlord of a lodging-house shall cause all such
means of ventilation as may he provided in or in connexion
with any room in such house to he maintained at all times in
good order.
18, In every case where in pursuance of any statutory
provisions in that behalf, an order of a justice has been obtained
for the removal from a lodging-house to a hospital of a person
who is suffering from any dangerous infectious disease and is
without proper lodging or accommodation, the landlord of such
house, and the lodger to whom any room whereof such person
may be an occupant has been let shall, on being informed of
such order, forthwith take all such steps as may be requisite on
the part of such landlord and of such lodger, respectively, to
secure the safe and prompt removal of such person in compliance
with such order, and shall in and about such removal, adopt all
such precautions as, in accordance with any instructions which
such landlord and such lodger, respectively, may receive from
the Medical Officer of Health of the Sanitary Authority, may be
most suitable for the circumstances of the case.
(2.) For the Prevention of Nuisances arising from any Snow,
Ice, Salt, Dust, Ashes, Rubbish, Offal, Carrion, Fish,
or Filth, or other Matter or Thing in any Street.
Interpretation
of Terms.
Interpretation of lerrns.
1. Throughout these byelaws the expression "the Sanitary
Authority" means the Board of Works for the Saint Saviour's
District.
Removal of
Snow from
street not repairable
by
the Inhabitants.
2. The occupier of any premises fronting, adjoining, or
abutting on any street not repairable by the inhabitants at large
shall, as soon as conviently may be after the cessation of any
fall of snow, remove or cause to be removed from the footways
and pavements adjoining such premises and forming part of such
street, all snow fallen or accumulated on such footways and
pavements, in such a manner and with such precautions as will
prevent any undue accumulation in any channel or carriageway
or upon any paved crossing.
The person in occupation of or having the charge,
management, or control of the premises, or if there is no such
person, then any person in occupation of or having the charge,
management, or control of any part of the premises, and in the
Definition of
Occupier.