CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934 — Page 74

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(ix) measures for the disinfection of clothes and rags fore packing where smallpox is prevalent;

be-

(n) for prohibiting or regulating the landing of animals brought from any place outside the Colony and for prohibiting such landing at specified places;

(o) for isolating cases of disease in animals and for regulating the same;

(p) for prohibiting or regulating the export of cattle from the Colony, or any part thereof;

(q) for appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the observation and examination of cattle either on arrival or previous to export;

(r) for appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the sanitary control of aerial navigation and for prescribing the sanitary measures to be taken in respect thereof;

(s) for prescribing the liability of any person to defray the expenses connected with the enforcement of this Ordinance or any regulation or by-law made under this Ordinance, and for regulating questions of compensation in connection there- with; and

(t) for prescribing the fine with which the contravention of any regulation or by-law made under this Ordinance will be punishable, but so that no such fine shall exceed five hundred dollars.

POWER OF THE URBAN COUNCIL TO MAKE BY-LAWS.

Urban

by-laws.

9.--(1) The Urban Council shall have power, with regard Power of to the prevention or mitigation of any epidemic, endemic, Council to contagious or communicable disease, to make by-laws :- make

(a) for the compulsory reporting of infectious disease; (b) for entering and searching houses, buildings, rooms and other places in which the presence of diseased persons or persons dead of disease or contacts may be suspected and for the examination of the occupants;

(c) for prohibiting or regulating the movements of dis- eased persons or of persons suspected of being diseased or of contacts;

(d) for the removal of diseased persons or persons sus- pected of being diseased to hospital or other places for medical treatment, and for their detention until they can be discharged with safety to the public, and for the temporary occupation of places required for the treatment of diseased persons or for the segregation of diseased persons or contacts;

(e) for prohibiting or regulating the removal of bedding, clothing, furniture or other articles which have been in the presence of a diseased person and which are reasonably sus- pected of being infected and for the disinfection or destruction of the same;

(f) for ordering the vacation of and for ordering or executing the cleansing and disinfection of houses, buildings, rooms and other places which have been occupied by any dis- eased person, or which are suspected of being infected with disease, or which are overcrowded or otherwise in an insani- tary condition;

tion;

(g) for house to house visitation, cleansing and disinfec-

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