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City of London 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this
Twelfth day of September, in the year One thousand nine
hundred and eight.
JOHN BURNS,
L.S.
President.
S. B. PROVIS
Secretary.
Notice.—The Public Health Act, 1896, provides by subsection 3 of Section 1 that if
any person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out, or obstructs the execution
of any regulation made under any of the enactments mentioned in that Act he shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Pounds, and, in the case of a continuing
offence to a further penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds for every day during which the
offence continues.
The power of making regulations under the Public Health Act, 1896, and the
enactments mentioned in that Act is enlarged by the Public Health (Regulations as
to Food) Act, 1907.
Date of publication in the London Gazette,
15th September, 1908.