Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Sixth annual report year ended 31st March 1906
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By-Law made on 6th February, 1900.
Street Shouting.
No person shall, for the purpose of hawking, selling or
advertising any newspaper, call or shout in any street so as to
cause annoyance to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
Penalty.
Any person who shall offend against the foregoing by-law
shall be liable for every such offence to a fine not exceeding forty
shillings.
By-Laws made on 2oth March, 1900.
Flash and Search Lights.
No person shall exhibit any flash light so as to be visible from
any street and to cause danger to the traffic therein, nor shall any
owner or occupier of premises permit or suffer any flash light to
be so exhibited on such premises.
The expression "flash light" means and includes any light
used for the purpose of illuminating, lighting, or exhibiting any
word, letter, model, sign, device, or representation in the nature
of an advertisement, announcement or direction which alters
suddenly either in intensity, colour, or direction.
No person shall exhibit any search light so as to be visible
from any street and to cause danger to the traffic therein, nor shall
any owner or occupier of premises permit or suffer any search
light to be so exhibited on such premises.
The expression "search light" means and includes any light
exceeding 500-candle power, whether in one lamp or lantern or
in a series of lamps or lanterns used together and projected as one
concentrated light, and which alters either in intensity, colour,
or direction.
In these by-laws the expression "street" includes any
highway and any road, bridge, lane, mews, footway, square,
court, alley, passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, and a part
of any such highway, road, bridge, lane, mews, footway, square,
court, alley or passage.
Any person who shall offend against any of the foregoing
by-laws shall be liable for every such offence to a fine not
exceeding £5.