CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877 — Page 333

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Art. 16. The Master shall cause the clothing and bedding of every person who may have suffered from Cholera on board such vessel, or who, having at any time been on board such vessel, shall have suffered from Cholera during the stay of such vessel in a Foreign Port, to be disinfected or (if necessary) destroyed; and if the Master shall have neglected to do so before the ship arrives in port, he shall forthwith, or upon the direction of the said Authority, cause the same to be disinfected or destroyed, as the case may require; and if the said Master neglect to comply with such direction within a reasonable time, the Authority shall cause the same to be carried into execution.

Art. 17.-The Master shall cause every part of the ship, and every article therein, other than those last described, which may probably be infected with Cholera, to be disinfected or destroyed, when required to do so by the said Authority, or by their Medical Officer of Health.

Given under our Seal of Office, this Seventeenth day of July, in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.

James Stansfeld

RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY,

egulations: Medical Officer of Health.

To the Guardians of the Poor

of the several UNIONS, PARISHES, and PLACES

in England and Wales, in which such Guardians

act as a Rural Sanitary Authority under the Public

Health Act, 1872;-

And to all others whom it may concern.

John Lembees

Secretary.

President.

NOTICE The Statute 35 & 36 Viet. c. 79., provides in Section 32 that "any person wilfully neglecting, or refusing to obey or carry out, or obstructing the execution of any rule, order, or regulation made by the Local Government Board under Section 52 of the Sanitary Act, 1866, shall be guilty of an offence punishable ou summary conviction before two Justices, and be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds,"

LONDON: Printed by GEORGE EDWARD EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1873.

WHEREAS by Section 10. of "The Public Health Act, 1872,”

it is enacted that it shall be the duty of every Rural Sanitary Authority to appoint from time to time a Medical Officer or Officers of Health, being legally qualified medical practitioners, and that the Local Government Board shall have the same powers as they have in the case of a District Medical Officer of a Union, with regard to the qualification, appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of a Medical Officer of Health, any portion of whose salary is paid out of moneys voted by Parliament;

And whereas it is thereby further enacted, that the same person may, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, be appointed the Medical Officer of Health for two or more Sanitary Districts, by the joint or several appointment of the Sanitary Authorities of such Districts:

Now We, the Local Government Board, deeming it expedient that Regulations should be made with respect to the qualification, appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of Medical Officers of Health, to be appointed by Rural Sanitary

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