[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Keighley Borough.

  • Keighley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Keighley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. Every person who, for any purpose of agriculture, or for any other purposes, shall deposit or cause to be deposited upon any lands or premises within the distance of 100 yards from any street, or from any building or premises used, wholly or partly, for human habitation, or as a school, or as a place of public worship, or of public resort or public assembly, or from any building or premises in or on which any person may be employed in any manufacture, trade or business, any filth which may may have been removed from any cesspool, or any filth which may have been removed from any privy, or from any receptacle used in connection with any privy, and which may not have been effectually deodorized, shall, with all reasonable dispatch, cause such filth to be ploughed or dug into the ground or to be covered with a sufficient layer of earth, ashes, or other suitable substance, or shall adopt such other precautions as may be reasonably necessary to prevent the emission of noxious or offensive effluvia from such filth. 8. The occupier of any premises shall not keep any swine or deposit any swine’s dung within the distance of 60 feet from any dwelling- house, or in such a situation or in such a manner as to pollute any water supplied for use or used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes or for manufacturing drinks for the use of man, or any water used or likely to be used in any dairy. 9. The occupier of any premises shall not keep any cattle or deposit the dung of any cattle in such a situation or in such a manner as to pollute any water supplied for use, or used, or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drinks for the use of man, or any water used or likely to be used in any dairy 10. Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or whereon any horse or other beast of draught or burden or any cattle or swine may be kept, shall provide, in connection with such building or premises, a suitable receptacle for dung, manure, soil, filth, or other offensive or noxious matter which may, from time to time, be produced in the keeping of any such animal in such building or upon such premises He shall cause such receptacle to be constructed so that the bottom or floor thereof shall not in any case be lower than the surface of the ground adjoining such receptacle. He shall also cause such receptacle to be constructed in such a manner and of such materials and to be maintained at all times in such a condition as to prevent any escape of the contents thereof, or any soakage therefrom into the ground or into the wall of any building. He shall cause such receptacle to be furnished with a suitable cover, and, when not required to be open, to be kept properly covered. 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 couvey all urine or liquid filth or refuse therefiom into a sewer, cesspool, or other proper receptacle. *
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