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Power of ealry and examina- Lion.

Examina- tion of

persona and dead bodies.

Removal

of sick persons, contacta and car riers.

Treat-

ment of persons elsewhere.

Detention

of persons removed,

PART III.

Sick and Infected Persons.

8. A health officer authorized in writing in that behalf by the Director of Medical and Health Services and any person authorized by such health officer may enter and where necessary, in the presence of a police officer, break into any premises for the purpose of-

(a) ascertaining whether there is therein any sick person or

any contact or carrier; or

(b) examining any dead body where the health officer has reason to believe that the cause of death has not been certified by a medical practitioner, or has doubt as to the diagnosis certified;

and may cause any such person or dead body to be examined.

9.

A health officer may-

(a) carry out a medical examination on, and for that purpose detain, any person whom he has reason to believe is a sick person, contact or carrier; and

(b) carry out a post-mortem examination on, and for that purpose remove to a mortuary or other suitable place, any dead body where he has reason to believe that infectious disease existed therein at the time of death,

10. A health officer may remove any sick person, contact or carrier to an infectious diseases hospital or such other place as he may appoint.

11. (1) A health officer may permit in writing a sick person, contact or carrier to be treated elsewhere than in an infectious diseases hospital.

(2) The health officer may endorse on such permit such conditions as he deems necessary, and such conditions shall be complied with by all persons having charge of the sick person, contact or carrier.

12. Any person removed to an infectious diseases hospital or other place under regulation to may be detained there until, in the opinion of the medical officer in charge of such infectious diseases hospital or other place, such person is no longer infectious.

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infectious

13. No person shall enter an infectious diseases hospital or Entry to other place appointed by a health officer under regulation Lo disoase, without the permission of such health officer or the medical officer hospitals, in charge of such infectious diseases hospital or other place.

PART IV.

Restrictions on exposure or transport of sick persons

und of disposal of infected dead bodies.

14. (1) No person knowing he is a sick person shall, and Person no person having the care of any person whom he has reason to believe is a sick person shall permit that person to-

not to expose others to infection

public con- veyancea.

(a) expose other persons to the risk of infection by his or enter

presence or conduct in any street, public place, place of entertainment or assembly, club, or hotel, or by carrying oo any trade, business or occupation;

(b) enter any public conveyance used for the carriage of passengers al separate fares except with the permission in writing of a health officer and subject to such condi- tions as he may specify;

(c) enter any other kind of public conveyance without first informing the owner, driver, or conductor of the fact that he is a person so suffering.

(2) No person knowing he is suffering from plague, small- pox, cholera, louse-borne typhus or louse-borne relapsing fever sball travel in any conveyance other than an ambulance except with the permission in writing of a health officer and subject to such conditions as he may specify.

(3) Except as herein provided no owner or conductor of a public conveyance used for the carriage of passengers at separate fares shall convey therein any person whom he has reason to believe is a sick person.

ances

15. Any owner or driver of any conveyance who carries any Owners of person whom he has reason to believe is a sick person shall forth. convey- with report the matter to a health officer, or other person specified to make in paragraph (1) of regulation $.

reports,