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 St James's, Westminster]
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also if any servant shall depart from the service of his or her master or
miatres without just cause or giveing lawful warning or not haveing a
lawfull testimoniall shall then be punished according to the said Statute.
Regrators.
8. Item if any person or persons shall at any time hereafter forestall
regrate or ingrosse any victualls or any kind of fuell either in the markett
or being brought towards the same that then every such offender shall
receive & have such condigne punishment as by the Statute in that case is
made & provided.
Laying of soyle
in the common
sewer or street.
9. Item if any butcher or any other person or persons shall cast or lay
any thing into any common sewer, which may be to the decay or hurt of
the same or that shall cast or lay any noisome thing or things into any
comon street to the annoyance of any the Queens Majesties people that then
every such person for every time offending in any of the pmisses shall be
comitted to prison there to remain by the space of xxiiij hours.
Cooks.
10. Item that noe person or persons that now keepeth or that hereafter
shall keep any cooks shop shall also keep a comon ale house (except every
such person shall be lawfully licensed thereunto) upon payne to have &
receive such punishment & pay such fine as by the Statute in that case is
made & provided.
Victuallers 100
and no more.
11. Item it is also ordered that from the Feast of St Michaell the Archangell
next ensueing there shall be within the sd Citty or Burrow the
number of one hundred comon alehouses & no more at any one time vizt.
In the parish of St Margaret sixty in the parish of St Martin in the Fields
twenty and in the parish of Saint Clements & Savoy or Strand within the
liberties of Westmr twenty.
Controversies.
12. Item if any cause of variance shall happen to be mistred between
any the neighboures of this Citty or Burrow upon any uncharitable speeches
or other annoyances that then the party grieved shall make his or her
complaint to the burgess or his assistant of the same ward & not to commence
any action or suit in law for any such cause without the lycence or
consent of the said burgess and his assistant upon payne of imprisonment.
Lanthorn and
candle light.
13. Item that every burgess & their assistants, & all & every other person
& persons useing any trade of victualling or keeping any comon alehouse
shall yearly & every year hereafter from the Feast of All Saints unto the
Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary find & keep one convenient
lanthorn with a candle being light in the same, in the street at
every their street doors vizt, from six of the clock in the afternoon untill