DOI issue:
September 5, 1891
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17692#0130
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PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [September 5, 1891.
BUMBLE BROUGHT TO BOOK.
[" Mr. Ritchie . . . has taken the unusual step of preparing a memorandum explanatory of . . . the Public Health (London) Act, which comes into operation
on the 1st ot January . . . The Vestries and District Councils . . . have come out with increased powers, but also with increased responsibilities. They are
m future known as ' the sanitary authorities'; they must make bye-laws, and enforce not only their own, but those made bv the County Council; and if
they fail m their duty—as, for example, m the matter of removing house-refuse, or keeping the streets clean—they are liable to a fine. It is pleasant
to think that, in future, any ratepayer may bring Mr. Humble to book."— The Times.]
President of the Local Government Board. "There's Mr. Bumble's Work. Madam, axd it'll ee your own fault if you don't
keep him up to it ! "
Bumble. Wot, moreTdooties piled upon me ? i But this 'ere Memyrandum's a startler. I\ Me see that the dust-pails is emptied, and
It's a beastly black shame and a bore, want to know what's to be done. underground bedrooms made sweet ?
Which Ritchie beats Oliver Twist in a canter Me keep the streets clean, me go poking my Me nail the Court Notices hup upon Butchers
at " asking for more." dalicot nose into 'oles as deals in bad meat ?
Didn't grasp his dashed Hact, not at fust, ! As ain't fit for 'ogs, but is kep' for them . Great Scissors, it's somethink houtrageous
though of course I opposed it like fun ; | Sweaters' pale wictims—pore soles P I knew Ritchie's Act meant 'ard lines,
PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [September 5, 1891.
BUMBLE BROUGHT TO BOOK.
[" Mr. Ritchie . . . has taken the unusual step of preparing a memorandum explanatory of . . . the Public Health (London) Act, which comes into operation
on the 1st ot January . . . The Vestries and District Councils . . . have come out with increased powers, but also with increased responsibilities. They are
m future known as ' the sanitary authorities'; they must make bye-laws, and enforce not only their own, but those made bv the County Council; and if
they fail m their duty—as, for example, m the matter of removing house-refuse, or keeping the streets clean—they are liable to a fine. It is pleasant
to think that, in future, any ratepayer may bring Mr. Humble to book."— The Times.]
President of the Local Government Board. "There's Mr. Bumble's Work. Madam, axd it'll ee your own fault if you don't
keep him up to it ! "
Bumble. Wot, moreTdooties piled upon me ? i But this 'ere Memyrandum's a startler. I\ Me see that the dust-pails is emptied, and
It's a beastly black shame and a bore, want to know what's to be done. underground bedrooms made sweet ?
Which Ritchie beats Oliver Twist in a canter Me keep the streets clean, me go poking my Me nail the Court Notices hup upon Butchers
at " asking for more." dalicot nose into 'oles as deals in bad meat ?
Didn't grasp his dashed Hact, not at fust, ! As ain't fit for 'ogs, but is kep' for them . Great Scissors, it's somethink houtrageous
though of course I opposed it like fun ; | Sweaters' pale wictims—pore soles P I knew Ritchie's Act meant 'ard lines,