Any person who shall draw or drive any wheeled Bath or invalid chair, or
perambulator, upon any footway or curb stone, shall be liable to a
penalty not more than forty shillings.
Every person sweeping or placing, or causing to be swept or placed, any
mud, dirt, rubbish, filth, soil, saw dust, shavings, straw, or refuse
from shops, into or upon any thoroughfare, or into or upon any channel,
or gutter on the side of any street, shall be liable to a penalty not
more than forty shillings.
Every person placing or causing to be placed any dung upon any
thoroughfare, or in any stable yard or mews, except into dung pits
constructed to the satisfaction of the vestry or district board, as the
case may be, shall be liable to a penalty not more than forty shillings.
Every person who shall affix any posting bill or other paper against any
street post, lamp post, or public lamp, shall be liable to a penalty not
more than forty shillings.
Every person who shall keep pigs upon premises, after notice from a
vestry or district board to discontinue such keeping, shall be liable to
a penalty not more than five pounds.
And be it enacted, That all doors, gates, and bars, not being underground
doors, hereafter to be erected within the limits of this Act, leading to
any house, building, yard, or land, and which shall open upon or towards
any public street, not being a stable yard or mews, shall be constructed
so as to open into or towards such house, yard, building, or land; and if
any such door, gate, or bar shall be constructed so as to open in any
other manner, the person who shall have caused such door, gate, or bar to
be so constructed, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty
shillings.
And be it enacted, That if any such door, gate, or bar already erected,
shall have been so constructed as to open outwards towards or upon any
public street, it shall be lawful for the vestry or district board to
alter the same, so that no part thereof opening or when open shall
project over any public way.
And be it enacted, That when any house or building, any part of which now
projects beyond the regular line of the street, or beyond the front of
the house or building on either side thereof in any street, shall be
taken down to be rebuilt or altered, the same shall be set back to the
line of the street or the line of the adjoining house or building in such
manner as the vestry or district board shall direct for the improvement
of such street, and when the next house or building shall not adjoin the
house or building to be so taken down, but shall be separated therefrom,
then the same shall be set back to the line of such street: Provided
always, that the vestry or district board shall make full compensation to
any such owner for any loss or damage he may sustain in consequence of
his house being set back according to the provisions herein contained.
And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the vestry or district
board to allow any building to be advanced for the purpose of improving
the line of the street or place in which such building may be situate or
any building adjacent thereto.
And be it enacted, That the owner or occupier of every house or building
in or adjoining any street within the limits of this Act shall, within
twenty-one days next after service of any order of the vestry or district
board for that purpose, put up and for ever afterwards keep in good
condition, proper and sufficient pipes to carry off the water from the
roof thereof into the common drains or sewers. And be it enacted, That
when any opening is now or shall hereafter be made in the pavement or
soil of any pavement or footpaths within the limits of this Act, as an
entrance into any vault, cellar, or area, a door covering or grating
shall be made by the occupier of such vault or cellar, of iron or such
other material and in such manner as the vestry or district board shall
direct; and such door covering or grating shall from time to time be kept
in good repair by the occupier of such vault, cellar, or area, and if the
occupier of any such vault, cellar, or area, shall not within a
reasonable time make such door, covering or grating, or shall make any
such door covering or grating contrary to the directions of the vestry or
district board, or shall not keep the same when made in good repair, he
shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.
And be it enacted, That when any building materials, rubbish, or other
things shall be laid, or any hole or excavation shall be made, in any of
the streets within the limits of this Act, the person causing such
materials or other things to be so laid, or the said hole or excavation
to be made, shall at his own expense cause a sufficient light to be fixed
in a proper place upon or near the same, and continue such light every
night from sun setting to sun rising during the time such materials,
hole, or excavation, shall remain; and such person shall, at his own
expense, cause such materials or other things and such hole or
excavation, to be sufficiently fenced and inclosed until such materials
or other removed, or the hole or excavation filled up or otherwise made
secure; and in case such person shall refuse or neglect so to light,
fence, or inclose such materials or other things, or such hole or
excavation, every person so offending shall for every such offence
forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds; and in every such case of
refusal or neglect, it shall be lawful for the vestry or district board
to cause such light to be so fixed and continued during the time
aforesaid, and such materials and other things, hole or excavation, to be
sufficiently fenced and enclosed; and all charges and expenses thereof
shall be paid by the persons causing such materials or other things to be
so laid, or such hole or excavation to be so made as aforesaid.
And be it enacted, That in no case shall any such building materials or
other things, or such hole or excavation, be permitted to remain for an
unnecessary time, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds, to be paid
by the person causing such materials or other things to be laid, or such
hole or excavation to be made, for each week during which the same
building materials or such hole or excavation shall so remain: and in any
such case proof of the necessity of a continuance thereof respectively
shall be upon the person so causing such materials or other things to be
laid, or causing such hole or excavation to be made.
And be it enacted, That if any building or excavation on any land or
place contiguous to any street within the limits of this Act shall for
want of sufficient repair, protection, or inclosure, be dangerous to the
passengers along such street, the owner thereof shall be liable to a
penalty not more than five pounds.
And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the vestry or district
board during such time as any street within the limits of this Act is
being made or repaired, or during the making of any sewer or drain by the
vestry or district board, or when they shall consider it expedient to
close such street, or any part of the same, by such ways or means as they
shall think fit.
Every vestry and district board shall have full power and authority to
pave, if they think fit, any uninclosed space which may have been the
forecourt of any house or building in any street, and the same shall
thenceforward become the public highway, and whenever the fence or other
enclosure shall have been removed, it shall not be lawful for the owner
or occupier of the said house or building again to enclose the said
space.
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_From the Vestry Clerk to the Clerk of the Metropolitan Board of Works_.
December 29th, 1859.
Dear Sir,—I am directed by the Vestry of this parish to request that,
when your Board shall apply to Parliament for the further Amendment of
the Metropolis Local Management Act, a clause may be introduced, enacting
that so much of the provisions of the 67th and 68th sections of the 57th
George the III., cap. 29, being “An Act for better paving, improving, and
regulating the streets of the Metropolis, and removing and preventing
Nuisances and Obstructions therein,” as relates to the nuisance arising
from hog styes, and to the breeding, feeding, and keeping of swine, and
suffering them to stray, be extended to the following parishes and places
within the Metropolis, which were not, at the time of the passing of the
said Act, included in the Weekly Bills of Mortality: that is to
say,—Paddington; Camberwell; Chelsea; St. Mary Abbot, Kensington;
Woolwich; St. John, Hampstead; St. Paul, Deptford, including Hatcham; St.
Nicholas, Deptford; Greenwich; Clapham; Tooting Graveney; Streatham; St.
Mary, Battersea, excluding Penge; Wandsworth; Putney; including
Roehampton; St. Mary, Stoke Newington; St. Peter and St. Paul,
Hammersmith; Fulham; St. Mary, Stratford-le-Bow; and St. Leonard,
Bromley: also enacting that the penalties imposed by these sections may
be recovered in the manner provided by the 227th section of the Act for
the better Local Management of the Metropolis, 18th and 19th Vict., cap.
120.
I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
J. Pollard, Esq.,
Metropolitan Board of Works,
1, Greek Street, Soho.
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December 29th, 1859.
Dear Sir,—I am directed by this Vestry to request that when your Board
shall apply to Parliament for the further Amendment of the Metropolis
Local Management Act, 18 and 19 Vict., cap. 120, the 85th section of that
Act may be altered by the insertion after the first word “works” of words
to the following effect: viz.:—
“And in the case of combined drainage such notice may require that
each house of any block of houses drained in combination, or so many
thereof as the Vestry or Board shall see fit, shall be drained
separately into a sewer.”
I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
J. Pollard, Esq.,
Metropolitan Board of Works,
1, Greek Street, Soho.
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January 23rd, 1860.
Dear Sir,—The Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health have
brought under the consideration of this Vestry the desirability of
extending to the cow houses within the Metropolis, the system of annual
licenses, as it prevails with regard to slaughter houses, and they have
directed me to acquaint you, for the information of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, that if a proposal is made to provide for such an
extension of the law, in their forthcoming amendment Bill, this Vestry,
upon the recommendation of their Medical Officer of Health, will give
such proposal their cordial support.
I beg to send you a copy of the Report of Dr. Barclay, our Medical
Officer of Health, above alluded to.
I have the honor to be, dear Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
CHAS. LAHEE,
Vestry Clerk.
J. Pollard, Esq.,
1, Greek Street, Soho.
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_Extract from the Report of the Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry
of the Parish of Chelsea_.
22nd November, 1859.
At your last meeting I was requested to report upon a suggestion made to
this Vestry by the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of
Health, to the effect that you should unite with other vestries in the
endeavour “to procure insertion in the proposed bill for amending the
Metropolis Local Management Act, of a clause relating to the annual
licensing of Cow Houses.” I was also requested to consider the propriety
of extending the system of licensing to the keeping of pigs.
With reference to these two questions, I have to observe, that the
grounds upon which such a proposition rests are mainly two; viz.:, the
_necessity for_ such a business being carried on where it now is, and the
probability that such a business may, if carelessly conducted, be a
nuisance to the neighbourhood. For by the very fact of the license being
granted, the option of endeavouring to remove the cause of nuisance
altogether is entirely given up. This authority is accorded to the
magistrate, by the Nuisances Removal Act, but is very rarely exercised in
cases brought before the Metropolitan Police Courts, because it has
generally been held that its powers were not intended to be used for the
suppression, but only for the regulation of offensive trades.
In regard to the keeping of cows throughout the Metropolis, a necessity
exists from which, under present circumstances, we cannot escape,
because, in hot weather, neither milk nor cream can be brought from a
distance in a perfectly sweet and fresh state, and at no time of year can
good cream be obtained from milk (as I am informed) after a journey. At
the same time, cow houses badly kept in a town are liable to become a
nuisance, 1st by effluvia from the building itself; 2nd, by accumulations
of dung, and annoyances during their removal, of which we have had
several examples in this parish; 3rd, by injury to the health of the
cows, which will consequently yield a supply of unhealthy milk, or may
become the means of diseased meat being sold at the inferior butchers’
stalls. Under such circumstances, it seems not unreasonable that the
vestry should seek by conceding the necessity for their permanence and
granting a license, to place them more completely under the control of
their officers.
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_Letter from W. Tite_, _Esq._, _to the Vestry Clerk_.
My dear Sir,
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Mr. Woolrych asks me whether the vestry can suggest a clause to meet the
case of combined drainage when it has appeared to become public drainage
by the ill advised arrangements of the late Commissioners?
This was the point on which I saw him some months since, and if the
vestry wish it, I will try what is to be done; you had better perhaps
give me a call any morning you please.
Yours truly,
WILLIAM TITE.
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_From the Vestry Clerk to W. Tite_, _Esq. M.P._