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In any case where no householder exists or can he found, the owner of such building shall be served with a notice to the above effect, and upon snch service being duly effected, such owner shall cleanse and lime-wash such promises in accordance with such notice.

17. All persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked by, or is suffering from, bubonic plague, cholera, small-

[-pox or from such other epidemic, endemic or contagious disease as may be from time to time duly notified in the Government Gazette, shall notify the same without delay to any officer on duty at the nearest. Police Station, or to some officer of the Sanitary Board, and any such officer receiving any such notification whether verlul or written or discover- ing any such case, shall notify the same with the least possible delay to the Medical Officer of Health: or to the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, and may retain such person or remove him to a public hospital until he can be examined by the Medical Officer of Health or by some legally qualified and registered medical practitioner.

18. The Sanitary Board by its officers inay provide for the removal of, and may remove to the Hygeia or other appointed place any person suffering from any such disease, and no removal shall take place except under the orders of the said Bourt or of one of its officers or of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, anil then only in such manner and with such precau- tious as the said Board shall from time to time direct. No such removal, however, shall take

place if the Medical Officer of Health or any legally qualified and registered medical practi- tioner certities that such person is being lodgel and cared for without danger to the public health.

19. The Sanitary Board may remove or cause to be removed for burial or crcination all bodies found in the Colony of persons who have died from any of such diseases and may bury or cremate or cause the same to be buried or treated in accordance with the custom of the race to which the deceased belonged in such place and in such manner and with such precantions as the said Board may from time to time direct, and no persons, unless acting under the written sanction ur direction of the Secretary of the said Board or of the Medical Officer of Health to bury or cremate, shall remove or bury or create any such bodies.

20. If my 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 an Iuspector of Nuisances, be preserved without danger to the public health and can be offect- ively disinfected, then any such article shall be removed from any premises in which it shall be found by coolies hired by any person acting under the instructions of the Sanitary Board, or of one of its duly authorized officers, with such precautions and in such manner as the said Board shall from time to time direct, and shall be

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