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such landlord and of such lodger, respectively, to secure the safe
and prompt removal of such person in compliance with such order,
and shall, in and about such removal, adopt all such precautions
as, in accordance with any instructions which such landlord and
such lodger respectively may receive from the Medical Officer of
Health of the Sanitary Authority, may be most suitable for the
circumstances of the case.
Penalties.
19. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing
bye-laws shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty
of five pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further
penalty of forty shillings for each day after written notice of the
offence from the Sanitary Authority.
Provided, nevertheless, that the justices or court before whom
any complaint may be made or any proceedings may be taken in
respect of any such offence, may, if they think fit, adjudge the
payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full amount of the
penalty imposed by this bye-law.
Repeal of Regulations.
20. From and after the date of the confirmation of these
bye-laws, the Regulations relating to Houses let in lodgings, or
occupied by members of more than one family, which were made
by the Board of Works for the Greenwich District on the sixth
day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-four, and were confirmed by the Local Government Board
on the nineteenth day of August in the year one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four shall be repealed.
During the latter part of the year the Metropolitan Asylums
Board's South-Eastern Hospital was so overcrowded that patients