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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Litter in cases
of Sickness.
6. Every person who shall lay or cause to be laid in any
street any litter or other matter in case of sickness to prevent
noise, shall lay the same so that it may be evenly distributed
over the surface of the part of the street intended to be covered,
and shall, when the occasion ceases, within forty-eight hours
thereafter, remove or cause to be removed from such street the
litter or other matter so laid in such 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.
Offensive
Matter not to
run out of
manufactory,
&c.
7. The occupier of a manufactory, brewery, slaughterhouse,
knacker's yard, butcher's or fishmonger's shop, or of any
premises comprising a dunghill, shall not cause or suffer any
offensive matter to run out of such 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, so as to be likely to become a nuisance.
For prevention of the keeping of animals on any premises in such
place or manner as to be a nuisance or injurious or
dangerous to health.
Keeping of
Animals.
8. The occupier of any premises shall not keep nor allow
to be kept any animal on such premises in such a place or in
such a manner as to pollute, or to be likely to pollute, any water
supplied for use or used or likely to be used by man for drinking
or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drink for the use of
man, or any water used or likely to be used in any dairy.
Receptacle for
Manure, &c.
9. Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or
whereon any horse or other beast of draught or burden, or any
cattle may be kept, shall deposit or cause to be deposited in a
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 connexion 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.
Weekly
Removal of
Manure &c.
Except where the Sanitary Authority by notice duly given
under the statutory provision in that behalf shall have otherwise