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Whitechapel 1893

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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storing of water used or likely to be used by man for drinking or
domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drink for the use of man,
is used for supplying water to persons occupying two or more
separately occupied premises, the foregoing requirements shall
apply to the owner of such premises instead of to any occupier
thereof.
The person in occupation of, or having the charge, management,
or control of the premises, or if there is no such person,
then any person in occupation of or having the charge, management,
or control of any part of the premises, and in the case of any
premises the whole of which is let to lodgers, the person receiving
the rent payable by the lodgers, either on his own account, or as
the agent of another person, shall, for the purposes of this bye-law
be deemed to be the occupier.
5. The occupier of any premises or any other person shall
not obstruct or interfere with the owner of such premises, or with
any person duly authorised by him in that behalf, in the execution
of any work to which the foregoing bye-laws relate.
Penalties.
6. 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.
Hugh Owen,
Secretary.