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In any case where no houschuller exists or can be found, the owner of such building shall be served with a notice to the above effect, and upon such service being duly effected, such owner shall cleanse and lime-wash such premises 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 sunc officer of the Sanitary Beard, and any such officer receiving any such notification whether verbal 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 detain 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 Bard by its officers may 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 Bourd or of one of its officers or of a legally qualified and registered medical practitioner, anil then only in such mamer 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 qualifiel and registered medical practi tioner certifies that such person is being lodged and cared for without danger to the public health.

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

20. 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 an Juspector of Nuisances, he preserved without danger to the public health and can be cffect- ively disinfected, then any such article shall be removed from any premises in which it shall be found by coolies hiral 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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