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 Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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16. A child or person under the age of 16 shall not annoy any person
by importuning.
17. A boy between the age of 11 and 16 shall while engaged in
street trading wear a badge provided by the London County Council on
the upper part of the right arm in such a manner as to be conspicuous.
18. No boy shall in any way alter, lend, sell, pawn, transfer, or
otherwise dispose of or wilfully deface or injure his badge, which shall
remain the property of the Council.
19. Nothing in these by-laws contained shall restrict the employment
of children in the occupations specified in section 3 (a) of the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, 1904, further than such employment
is already restricted by Statute.
The foregoing By-laws were made by the London County Council on
the 31st day of July, 1906, and the common seal of the Council was
hereunto affixed on that day.
G. L. Gomme,
Cleric of the London County Council.
County Hall, Spring Gardens, S.W.
31st July, 1906.
I hereby confirm the foregoing By-laws,
H. J. Gladstone,
One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Whitehall, 4th October, 1906.