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effectively disinfected and then returned to the owner or owners thereof. No person, save as aforesaid, shall handle any such article until it has been disinfected,

21. If, however, in the opinion, duly certified in writing, of an Inspector of Nuisances or of any other duly authorized officer of the Board, or of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, any bedding, clothing, or other article which has been in contact with any person or any dead body in any way affected by any such disease, or which shall have been found upon any premises recently occupied by such person or body cannot be effec tively disinfected or ought, in the interests of the public health, to be destruyed then it shall, if the Medical Officer of Health or other officer of the Sanitary Board duly authorized to act on his behalf, concurs, be destroyed in such manner and in such place and with such precautions as the said Board may from time to time direct.

22. Any building or part of a building in which any person attacked by any such disease or in which the body of any person who has died of any such disease shall have been, or shall be found, shall forthwith, after the renoval therefrom of the diseased person or of the dead body, be thoroughly cleatised and disinfected, to the satis- faction of the Medical Officer of Health; and-if in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health or of any legally qualified and registered medical practitioner it is necessary-in the interests of the public health-the persona 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 unier observation until such time as they may, in the opinion of the said Medical Officer of Health of other Medical Officer in charge of such buildings or vessels, be safely released; and 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,

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BYE-LAWS

To be enforced only during the pre- valence of an epidemie, endemic or contagious disease in the Colony or in any district thereof.

23. During the prevalence in the Colony, or in any district thereof, of bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox or such other epidemic, endemic or comingiaus disense as may be from time to time notified in the Government Gazette, all receptacles, whether public or private, for excremental matter shall be kept thoroughly disinfected by the owner thereof to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health or other duly authorized oflicer of the Sanitary Board, by causing to be thrown into every such receptacle after use a sufficient tity of any such disinfectant as may be approved by the sail Beard. All floors and channels as well