London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

City of London 1894

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894

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31
The Servants of the Board are forbidden to
accept any gratuities or refreshments.
By order,
T. DUNCOMBE MANN,
Clerk to the Board.
Dated 15th January, 1892.
N.B.—PENALTY—By Section 70 of the
"Public Health (London) Act, 1891,"
it is enacted that—" It shall not be lawful
for any owner or driver of a public conveyance
knowingly to convey, or for
any other person knowingly to place in
any public conveyance, a person suffering
from any dangerous infectious disease,
or for a person suffering from any such
disease to enter any public conveyance,
and if he does so he shall be liable to a
fine not exceeding TEN POUNDS . . "