354 VETERINARY HYGIENE 



Pebtbntion of the keeping of Animals on any Pkbmises 

 so AS TO BE Injurious to Health. 



By Section 44 of the Public Health Act, 1875, it is 

 provided that an Urban Authority may, among other things, 

 make bye-laws ' for the prevention of the keeping of animals 

 on any premises so as to be injurious to health.' The 

 health referred to is not that of the animals concerned, but 

 of man. 



The Local Government Board have issued a series of pro- 

 posed bye-laws on the subject, which are here reproduced : — 



13.* The occupier of any premises shall not keep any swinef or 

 deposit any swine's dung within the distance of 100 feet from any 

 dweUing-house. 



13a. The occupier of any premises shall not keep any swine within 

 the distance of 100 feet from any dwelling-house, unless the sty or 

 place in which such swine are kept be maintained in a cleanly and 

 wholesome condition. 



14. The occupier of any premises shall not keep any cattle or swine 

 or deposit the dung of any cattle or swine 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. 



15. 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 



* The Board suggest that in the case of a rural district the following 

 clause (13a) should be substituted for this clause. 



+ The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, prohibits pigs being kept 

 in the Metropohs mthin 40 yards of a street. A petty sessional Court 

 may also prohibit the keeping of any animal in any specified place 

 shown to be unfit for the purpose. 



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