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 Whitechapel]
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" exceeding five pounds and to a further fine not exceeding
" ten shillings for every day during which he continues to make
" default after conviction; and the Sanitary Authority may, if
" they think fit, cause the workshop or part to be limewashed,
" cleansed, or purified, and may recover in a summary manner
" the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the person on
" whom the notice was served.
" This section shall apply to any factory which is not subject to
" the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878, and the
" Acts amending the same, and to any workplace, in like manner
" as it applies to a workshop.
"Sections thirty-four, thirty-five, and eighty-one of the Factory
" and Workshop Act, 1878, and sections fifteen and sixteen of the
" Factory and Workshop Act Amendment Act, 1883 (which relate
" to cleanliness, ventilation, and other sanitary conditions), shall,
" as respects every bakehouse which is a workshop, be enforced
" by the Sanitary Authority of the district in which the bakehouse
" is situate, and they shall be the Local Authority within the
" meaning of those sections.
" For the purposes of this section, the provisions of this Act
" with respect to the admission of the Sanitary Authority and
" their Officers into any premises for any purpose in relation to
" nuisances shall apply in like manner as if they were herein
" re-enacted, and in terms made applicable to this section ; and
" every person refusing or failing to allow the Sanitary Authority
" or their Officer to enter any premises in pursuance of those
" provisions for the purposes of this section shall be subject to a
" fine."
Sec. 29 by sub-section 3, enacts that " so much of any Act as
" requires the occupier or owner of any premises
Removal " in London to cause the footways and waterof
Refuse. "courses adjoining the premises to be swept
"and cleansed is hereby repealed."
Sec. 30 recites: " It shall be the duty of every Sanitary
" Authority to secure the due removal at proper periods of house
" refuse from premises, and the due cleansing out and emptying
" at proper periods of ashpits, and of earth closets, privies, and
" cesspools (if any), in their district, and the giving of sufficient