A.D. 1901.]
PUBLIC HEALTH.
[No. 10.
(2.) Such order shall be granted by the inspector in charge on the production and deposit of the receipt given on admission of the animals and in favour of the person therein named or of any other person on his order, and on payment of a fee of five cents for each sheep or pig removed, unless immediate payment is dispensed with.
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PART IX.
DISINFECTION OF INFECTED PREMISES.
1. In the following By-Laws~
Interpretation
The words "infected premises" mean and include any premises in which any person suffering from any infectious disease is or has been recently located:
The words "infectious disease" mean and include bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus fever, enteric fever, relapsing fever, puerperal fever, measles, and whooping cough and such other diseases as may from time to time be defined by the Board by resolution for the purpose.
2. When any person suffering from any infectious disease has been removed from any premises, or has recovered, or has died, the Medical Officer of Health shall, with the assent of the occupiers of the infected premises, take such steps as he may deem necessary for the disinfection and purification of the said premises.
Cleansing and disinfection of building in which person has died of or has been ill or
3.-(1.) Any building or part of a building in which any person attacked by bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox, or such other epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease as may from time to time be notified in The Gazette, or in which the body of any person who has died of any such disease may have been or may be found, shall forthwith, after the removal therefrom of the diseased person or of the dead body, be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected, to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health.
(2.) If, in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health or of any legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, such a course is necessary, in the interests of the public health, the persons residing in such building or part of a building shall be detained therein or shall be removed to such buildings or vessels as the Board may direct, and there isolated and kept under observation until such time as they may, in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health or other Medical Officer in charge of such buildings or vessels be safely released.
(3.) It shall not be lawful for any person to re-occupy any such building or part of a building until it has been thoroughly cleansed and disinfected as aforesaid.
plague, etc.
disinfection of articles of
4. (1.) If any article of clothing or bedding or any other article which has been in contact with any person or any dead body in any way affected by any such disease can, in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health or of
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in certain cases.