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 Rotherhithe]
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PENALTIES.
20. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing By-laws shall be liable
for every such offence to a penalty of five pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to
a further penalty of forty shillings for each day after written notice of the offence from the
Sanitary Authority.
Provided, nevertheless that the justices or court before whom any complaint may
be made or any proceedings may be taken in respect of any such offence may, if they think
fit, adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full amount of the penalty
imposed by this By-law.
REPEAL OF REGULATIONS.
From and after the date of the confirmation of these By-laws, the regulations relating to
houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family which were confirmed
on the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixtyseven,
by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, shall be repealed.
The Common Seal of the Yestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, in
the County of London, was affixed hereto at a general meeting
held this 19th day of November, 1895.
By Order,
JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk
Allowed by the Local Government Board, this 9th day of January, 1896.
S. B. PROVIS,
Assistant Secretary.
Acting on behalf of the said Board under the Authority of their
General Order, dated the 26th day of May, 1877.