Caution : any person committing any annoyance or any nuisance whatever on any footway or foot-pavement, or on any road or way, within the District of the Hastings Local Board of Health.

Poster issued by the Hastings Local Board of Health forbidding people to obstruct public rights of way and dispose of rubbish, night soil, food waste,dung "or any putrid unwholesome or offensive matter" onto the town's streets, footpaths, beach, sewers, drains or watercourses. Dated November 26 1851.