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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4. A child liable to attend school full time shall not in any
week in which the school is open on more than two days be
employed for more than 20 hours.
* .5.—A child liable to attend school full time shall not be
employed, on days when the school is not open—
(a) Before 6.30 a.m. or after 9 p.m.
(b) For more than eight hours in any one day.
6. A child liable to attend school full time shall not in any
week during which the school is open on two days only or less be
employed for more than 30 hours.
7 A child shall not be employed on Sundays except between
the hours of 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. for a period not exceeding three
hours.
8. A child shall not be employed in or in connection with the
sale or delivei y of intoxicating liquors except on premises where
such liquors are exclusively sold in sealed vessels.
9. A child shall not be employed in any process carried on in
a laundry to which the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, does not
apply.
* 10. A child shall not be employed as a lather boy or in any
similar occupation in any barber's or hairdresser's shop.
As to street trading by person* under the age of 16 years.
* 11. A boy under the age of 14 years (or 16 years if not
exempt from school attendance), or a girl under the age of 16 years
shall not be employed in or carry on street trading.
12. A boy between the ages of 14 and 16 years, and exempt
from school attendance, shall not be employed in or carry on street
trading before 6 a.m. or after 9 p.m.
* 13. A boy under the age of 16 years, whilst engaged in
street trading, shall not enter any premises used for public entertainment
or licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor for consumption
on the premises for the purpose of trading.