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Bethnal Green 1888

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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3.—No Barrow, Cart or Stall shall be placed or stand in any
street or public way within 3ft. (measured along the length of any such
street or public way) of another barrow, cart or stall, which space of
3ft. shall be kept so as to enable passengers to pass and repass between
the road and the footway.
4.—All Costermongers, street hawkers and itinerant traders shall,
when requested to do so by any inhabitant, remove their barrows,
carts and stalls from before the house of such inhabitant, in order to
enable him to load or unload any vehicle at his door.
5.—No Barrow, Cart or Stall shall be placed or stand, either
wholly or in part, on any street crossing.
6.—Costermongers, street hawkers, and itinerant traders, and their
barrows, carts and stalls, will be liable to be removed from any street
and public way in which they create an obstruction to the traffic, or
where they are an annoyance to the inhabitants.
7.—Costermongers, street hawkers and itinerant traders may have
awnings over their stalls, but such awnings shall not exceed 6ft. in
height from the footpath in front of the stall, and 9ft. in length and
3ft. 6in. in width, nor project in front at the top of the awning more
than 1ft.
8.—No Stall shall be permitted to remain in the streets between
the hours of 12 at midnight and 2 a.m., and coffee stalls shall not be
permitted to remain in the streets after 8 o'clock a.m., except such as
are of the dimensions specified by rule I.
9.—In Bethnal Green Road, Hackney Road, Cambridge Road and
Green Street, no stall or barrow shall be placed within 3ft. of the
point of junction with any side street, and no stall or barrow shall be
placed in any side street leading out of any of the four before-mentioned
main thoroughfares within 3ft. of the line of frontage of the house or
building in the main thoroughfare at its, junction with the side
street.
10.—In such cases as shall be deemed reasonable, stalls shall be
required to have wheels.
11.—No Stall Board shall project more than 18in. over any footway;
but where, in the judgment of the Street Regulations Committee,
the footway is so narrow as to make a projection of 18in. inconvenient,
the Committee shall determine to what extent a stall board may
project.
12.—Awnings or Sun Blinds shall not at their lowest point be less