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Finsbury 1904

Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops

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notice in writing from the Council, signed by the Medical Officer
of Health, requiring him within such reasonable time as is
specified in the notice to comply with the bye-law has failed to
comply with the bye-law within the time so specified.
Penalties.
20. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing
Bye-laws shall be liable for every such offence to a penally 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 Council:
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.
21. From and after the date of the confirmation of these Bye-laws,
the Bye-laws with respect to houses let in lodgings or occupied by
members of more than one family, which were made by the Mayor,
Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury,
on the sixth day of June, in the year one thousand nine hundred
and one, and were confirmed by the Local Government Board on
the sixteenth day of October in the same year, shall be repealed.
The Common Seal of the Mayor, Aldermen
and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of
Finsbury was, by Order dated 2nd June, 1904,
hereunto affixed on the 2nd day of June, 1904.
(Signed) MIDDLETON CHAPMAN,
Mayor.
(Signed) G. W. PRESTON,
Town Clerk.
Allowed by the Local Government Board this Twenty-ninth day
of July, 1904.
(Signed) S. B. PROVIS,
Secretary.
Acting on behalf of the said Board under the
Authority of their General Order, dated the Twenty-
sixth day of May, 1877.