Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report on the sanitary condition of the Whitechapel District, (with vital and other statistics), for the year 1893 (consisting of 52 weeks) being the tenth annual report
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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.
20. 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.
21. From and after the date of the confirmation of these
bye-laws the regulations for houses let in lodgings or occupied by
members of more than one family, which were confirmed on the
fourth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven, by one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State,
shall be repealed.
The seal of the Board of Works for the Whitechapel District
was hereunto affixed at a meeting of the Board held the 30th day
of October, 1893, by order of the said Board.
Alfred Turner
Clerk.
L.S.
Allowed by the Local Government Board this twenty-first
day of December, 1893.
Henry H.Fowler,
President.
Hugh Owen,
Secretary.
Repeal of Regulations.