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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case of any premises the whole of which is let in tenements
or to lodgers, the person receiving the rent payable by the
tenants or lodgers, either on his own account or as the agent of
another person, shall for the purposes of this byelaw be deemed
to be the occupier.
Deposit of
Snow on
Carriageway.
3. Every person who shall remove any snow from any
premises on to any carriageway shall deposit the same in such a
maimer 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.
Regulations
as to the use
of Salt.
4. Every person who shall throw any salt upon the footway
of any street shall do so in such quantity 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 011 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.
Refuse and
filth not to be
thrown into
any Street.
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 byelaw 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 byelaw made by the London
County Council and in force in the place where such act is done.
Provided also that it shall not be an offence against this
byelaw to lay any ashes or other suitable material in any street
in time of frost to prevent accidents.