Show S OLD LONDON STREET f Row How the City Got Its Ideas of off f Cleanliness New York Press jl Sow How London got get ts is first ideas of cleanliness ia la as an interesting as how an anI 5 Infant Wt gets its us first Ideas of speech In Inthe InV Inthe I V the very old days da s the first street regu regulations 1 lations referred only to preserving or order order der dor These Theo The o were made mad in ill the reign of Edwar I and those who ho went about j after curfew were pulled In as we wei i mod say eaT Juet Jt about years ears ago I the frat regulations were mode moile regard regarding i Ji 9 ins ing the tale cleaning of the streets It was wasS I S that thu every tine one should keep I II I j clean the front of his l s own tenement that so the streets be delivered i I from all encumbrances A weeks j S grace only was wae e ven before the resa regJ laUon came c me ine into force and after this j interval int the te owner of or any airy an house hou was 1 liable Hable to tie be fined half lif a mark At the I same seme s me time Ume it was ordered that all aU pig pigI t I should speedily sp be removed and andI I that any swine found in the streets t Should be forfeited J In the reign of Edward II n 1309 a aj j proclamation was made mede that as the I townspeople had got into imo the babit j I II of carrying the die filth toot that had hod collected in their houses hous to the streets and lanes I I 11 instead of taking it to the too Thames or ori i elsewhere out of or town and as the theS S streets and lanes were more encumber encumbered I ed eil than they used u ed to ro be the tIle corporation I I forbade any peor on to permit filth af after f fI I ter tot it had bed collected in his house to be carried Into the kings highway Any Anyon on one breaking this regulation was liable to 10 be fined on the first conviction and afterward half a mark for lor each ea h conviction and he was moreover com corn compelled ii to 10 remove the dirt at his own ownA H I expense I A regulation made ma e the owner of a ahouse aI I house bouse responsible re for the state of the i whether the nuisance was caus caused causi i I ed by himself or not A penalty was wa wai I i incurred by any citizen before whose 1 j house boime 1 Ulle dirt rt should be found if after it Iti i Lad boon been placed fee ie did not imme immediately i 1 give information by whom it had been brought there It seems seema to W WI I i have occurred to those who framed the I regulation that this enactment might be open to 00 abuse and they therefore in inthe InS InI S I the same proclamation provided against h such a contingency It was enacted ii 11 th thet t tf if any person should have any filth i carried or removed to the front of the theS 1 S house of any other er citizen he should 5 b be compelled to have it carried imme immediately I 1 from thence to 10 within his own S house there to be kept a day da and a aI I j I night on pain p of a fine p The refuse in the streets caused great greatS I f S trouble in the middle ages and the I adopted a opted of sImply gimpl putting it itI I into the Thames naturally natural caused a aj aS j on the river banks eo 60 that in inthe Inthe inthe S the reign of Edward HI m the king made madea madeI I a on the matter to the mayor ma mai i and sheriffs of the city His majesty l S remarked that the accumulation of filth f I in fn dyers divers places not only in the city J I but also aloo on the banks of f the Thames I I caused fumes and other r abominable i I stenches from the corruption by which if j tolerated great peril would ensue as aswall 1 I wall wail to the persons dwelling within the th city as 00 to the nobles and omd others pass passIng passIng passIng Ing along r river ver Wishing to take precautions against a such dangers and to preserve the honor and decency of or orthe the city the king Icing l ng commanded that the banks of ot the river and the streets of ot otI I I the citY otty should be cleansed without de delay deJay delay lay Jay and kept clean In the future and if any persons thereafter were found I breaking this regulation they were to tobe tobe tobe be chastised a and d punished so that fear j might prevent others from committing a Or 0 like offense e and this the royal j order says as you would preserve I yourself safe and would avoid our heavy indignation you are in no wise to omit This writ Tit was proclaimed on 1 I the Thursday after the Feast of the of ot St S1 John Aug 29 1357 1351 I 1 I t In the reign of Richard II the com corn common mon mom council by the advice of the may mayor mayor S f or aldermen and commonalty ordained that the ordinance In force against the I accumulation of filth should be enforced T strictly that no one should throw throwS 1 S rubbish into the tile kennels of the city in tima of rain and that every cery officer should have the power to take the carts S t 1 I J which brought in gravel and sand and andI f I load them at their departure with the theS S j filth gathered from the fu kennels so 50 soS 4 that it should be carried out of ot the thea I S 11 a city dt Th process of or commandeering f S J was Wa however to 10 be applied only to the which carted sand gravel and andI I I iI loam Into the city elty S |