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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the same to be properly paved with a hard, durable, and impervious
pavement, evenly and closely laid upon a sufficient bed of
good concrete, and so sloped to a properly constructed channel as
effectually to carry off all rain or waste water therefrom; and he
shall cause such pavement to be kept in proper repair.
Penalties.
11. 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.
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.
Allowed by the Local Government Board this twenty-first
day of December, 1893.
Henry H. Fowler,
President. L.S.
Hugh Owen,
Secretary.