Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London for the year 1904
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Maintenance of
closets, &c.
164
16. The owner of any premises shall maintain in proper condition of
repair every water-closet and receptacle for dung, and the proper accessories
thereof, belonging to such premises.
PENALTIES.
17. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing Bye-laws
shall he 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 Corporation. Provided nevertheless
that the Court before whom any complaint may be made or any
proceedings may be taken in respect of any such offence may, if the Court
thinks fit, adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full
amount of the penalty imposed by this Bye-law.
Examined, L.S.
HOME WOOD CRAWFORD,
City Solicitor.
The Common Seal of the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of
London was affixed to these Bye-laws at a duly constituted Meeting of
the Court of Common Council holden on the twenty-eighth day of July,
1904, and in my presence.
JAMES BELL,
Town Clerk.
Allowed by the Local Government Board this twenty-seventh day
of September, 1904. L.S.
H. C. MONRO,
Assistant Secretary.
Acting on behalf of the said Board, under the authority of thei
General Order dated the twenty-sixth day of May, 1877.