Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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any street, for the purpose of advertising, any bill, placaed or other substance;
(3) throw down and leave in any street any bill, placard or other paper which
shall have been torn off or removed from any bill-posting station.
No person shall deposit in any street or public place to the danger of any
passenger, the rind of any orange, banana or other fruit, or the leaves or
refuse of any vegetable.
No person shall throw, place or leave any bottle or any broken glass, nail
or other sharp substance (not being road material) on or in any street or public
place in such a position as to be likely to cause injury to passengers or animals
or damage to property.
Tn these by-laws the expression " street " includes any highway, and any
road, bridge, lane, path, footway, mews, square, court, alley or passage to
which the public have access for the time being.
Any person who shall offend against any of these by-laws shall be liable
for each offence to a tine not exceeding 40s.
The by-laws made by the Council on 12th May, 1903, relative to the
throwing down in streets of waste paper, refuse, advertising bills, broken glass,
&c., are repealed as from the date on which the above by-laws come into force.
I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing by-laws, sealed
with the Corporate Seal, was on the 4th day of July,
1906, sent to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Home Department, and that His Majesty in
Council did not within the period of 40 days from that
date disallow the by-laws or any part of them, nor did
His Majesty enlarge the time within which the by-laws
or any of them were not to come into force. I also
certify that a cop\ of the foregoing bv-laws was fixed
on the County Hall on the 4th day of July, 1906.
G. L. Gomme,
Clerk of the London County Council.
§ 5. Regulations and Requirements.
Regulation* for Exclusion of Chillren from School.—In Part III., Infectious
Diseases, under the head of Isolation, will be found the Regulations recently
issued by the London County Council, Education Department, with regard to
the exclusion of children from school on account of infectious diseases.
Requirement:s' as to means of Escape in case of Fire.—Under the London
Building Acts (Amendment Act, 1905, and the Factory and Workshop Act,
1901, the London County Council on 24th July, 1906, approved of requirements
in respi ct to the means of escape in case of fire. The requirements also
conduce to a healthier mode of construction by requiring the proper lighting
and ventilation of staircases and other details protective of health as well as of
life.