A digest of the law relating to public health and local government : with notes of 1073 leading cases, various official documents, precedents of by-laws and regulations, the statutes in full, a table of offences and punishments, ample indexes, &c / by George F. Chambers.
- George Frederick Chambers
- Date:
- 1875
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A digest of the law relating to public health and local government : with notes of 1073 leading cases, various official documents, precedents of by-laws and regulations, the statutes in full, a table of offences and punishments, ample indexes, &c / by George F. Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![►Sect. 3.] Removal of Refuse: Nuisances. (7.) If the hatch of any midden-stead, privy, ash-pit, or other like receptacle shall at any time Hatches left be open, so that the contents of such midden-stead, &c., shall, by reason thereof or owing to the P*- absence of a sulHcient hatch, be exposed to public view, or fall or drop into or upon a street, then and in every such case, the occupier of the house or tenement to which such midden-stead, &c., belongs, shall, for the first offence, pay the sum of 5s.; for a second offencej the sum of los. ; and for every subsequent offence, the sum of i ?. (8.) No person shall beat, dust, brush or shake any mat, carpet, or other like article in any Carpet beating, -street, or public foot-way, except before 8 a.m. (9.) Every occupier of a market, yard, place, or premises where empty packing-cases, crates, 'J''°'^J*^'° Tiampers, baskets, or boxes are stacked or stored, shall take care that such articles are not allowed g^^ ^ 1 acking to be put away when containing hay, straw, or othei* packing materials likely to become a nuisance. (10.) Every occupier of a market, yard, place, or premises, whei-e horses, cattle, pigs, or other Removal of animals are kept, shall provide upon such premises, to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Dung, &c. Nuisances, a substantial receptacle for dung, manure, and other solid refuse arising on the premises, and a trapped drain for carrying all liquid drainage either away from such premises, or into such receptacle. If no provision for the removal of such dung, manure and other solid refuse be made by the Board, every occupier shall himself remove such dung, &c., at such intervals of time, with such precautions, and within such hours, as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. Provided always that this By-Law shall not apply to Farms. (11.) No person shall, under any circumstances whatsoever, keep a pigin a Dwelling-house; and Pigs and in every case where a pig or other animal is kept in such a manner and in such. proximity to Amraals, &c. human habitations or places of public resort as to be a nuisance or injurious to health, the Board may, after receiving satisfactory evidence of the fact, direct the removal of such pig or other animal. (12.) In ease there shall be any accumulation of ashes, dust, dirt, rubbish, filth, manure, dvmg. Accumulations or soil, collected in any house, stable, or cow-house, or in any court, yard, lane, or other open °^ Refuse, &e. place, not being a highway, and notice under the l^nd of the Inspector of Nuisances, or other Officer of the Board, shall have been given to, or^eft at the place of abode of, the owner or occupier of such house, stable, or cow-house, requiring him to remove such accumulation, and to cleanse, whitewash, or otherwise purify such house, within a time to be therein mentioned (not being less than 24 hours from the delivery of such notice), and such owner or occupier shall omit to comply with such notice, then, and in every such case, the owner or occupier to or for whom , such notice shall have been given, or left as aforesaid, shall, for every such omission, pay such sum or penalty as is hereinafter provided : and the accumulation may forthwith after the expiration of such notice be removed by the Board. So much of the expense of such removal as is not covered by the sale of the accumulation, shall be recoverable in a summary manner from the person in default. (13.)_ In case any privy, water-closet, cesspool, sink, private drain, or yard, shall be in a foul or Foul Privies, &c. offensive state so as to require cleansing or emptying, and notice from the Board, under the hand of the Inspector of Nuisances, or other Officer, shall have been given to the occupier, or left at his place of abode or business, or left with any hoviseholder entitled to the use of the said privy, &c., requiring such occupier or householder to cleanse or empty the same within a time to be therein mentioned, and such occupier or householder shall omit to comply with such notice, then and in every such case the occupier or householder to or for whom such notice shall have been given or left as aforesaid, shall for every such omission pay such sum as is hereinafter provided, and the filth and soil of the said privy, &c., may forthwith after the expiration of such notice, be removed by the Board. So much of the expense of such removal as is not covered by the sale of the material, shall be recoverable in a summary manner from the person in default. The time mentioned in the aforesaid notice shall not be less than three clear days from the delivery of such notice, except when there exists, or is imminent, an epidemic or dangerous disease, which may be aggravated by the effluvia from the matter required to be removed, in which case the removal shall be accomplished forthwith after the delivery of such notice. (14.) Every person who shall empty, or assist in emptying, any privy, water-closet, or cesspool. Deodorisers to or who shall remove night-soil, sewage, or other like offensive matter, shall perform such labour '^^ used, in a quiet, orderly, and speedy manner, and shall use such deodorizers and employ such other means of preventing disagreeable or hurtful effects as shall be directed by the Board, or the Inspector of Nuisances j and the work shall be performed only between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. (15.) Where any night-soil, sewage, or other like offensive matter, has to be carried through Sewage Carts, any street or thoroughfare, it shall be carried only between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m., and only in covered vessels or carts so constructed that their contents cannot escape. (16.) If, in the course of emptying any privy, water-closet, cesspool, ash-pit, or similar recep- Precautions, tacle, or of removing night-soH, sewage, dung, ashes, or offensive matter, any such night-soil, sewage, dung, ashes, or matter should be spilled, the persons engaged shall carefully sweep, cleanse, and deodorise the place where such matter shall have been spiUed, and shall promptly and effectually remove such sweepings. (17.) No cart used for removing night-soil, sewage, dung, ashes, or other offensive matter, from Carta not to any cesspool, ash-pit, or similar receptacle, shall remain in any street or thoroughfare longer than loiter. shaU be necessary for the loading or unloading thereof, and such cart, if in an offensive condition, shall not be left in any yard or place within 50 yards of a dwelling-house, save with the sanction «f the Inspector of Nuisances, and on a sufficient reason being assigned. Every cart used for the removal of night-soil shaU be provided with a sufficient cover. (18.) If, in the course of loading any wood, seaweed, wreck, dead fish or animals, any of such Litter in streets, ■wood, seaweed, wreck, dead fish or animals should be dropped in any street or thoroughfare, the persons engaged in such loading shaU well and carefully take or sweep up the litter which they may have caused. (19.) No person shall commit a nuisance in any street or thoroughfare, or within view of any Nuisances in dweUing-house, whereby public decency may be offended. streets. (20.) No person shaU throw, or suffer to be thrown, any water or other liquid into an ash-pit. Waste Water, or on the surface of any passage, yard, or street, except at such places as are provided with proper ratings for the removal of waste water, or except for the purpose of cleansing such passage, yard, or street. Throwing Ani- (21.) No person shall drown any dog, cat, or other animal, or cast or deposit any dead animal, mals or Rubbish ashes, soil, noisome matter, or rubbish, in any river, canal, stream, pond, ditch, or drain. into Rivers, &c.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20386643_0205.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
