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Authority have certain powers of detaining the vessel specified in the Order of the ~ Local Government Board above referred to. 6. The provisions under Articles 12, 13, and 14 of the Order of the Local Government Board as to the mode of dealing with persons who may arrive from abroad unfected with cholera, will be better understood if a succinct statement be made of the ordinary provisions of the Law with regard to infectious diseases fur Eugland. The Authorities which have to administer theat law as now existing under the Public Health Act, 1875, are

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the Worban, Rural, and Port Sanitary Authorities into which the whole kingdow is divided, and these Authorities are jempowered:-

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(a.) to provide hospitals or temporary places for the reception of the such (section 131)

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fanuly, or on board any ship or ~ vessel (sec: 124.)

(c.) to make regulations ( to be approved by the Local Government Board) for removing to any hospital to which the Local auttiority is entitted to remove patients, and for keeping in suce hospital so long as may

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any persous brought within their District by any stup or boat, who are infected with a dangerous infections

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