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Notification
where no practitioner has attended.
Notification by persons having knowledge of the
disease.
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70. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from or has died from plague, cholera, smallpox or cerebro-spinal meningitis, and if such inmate be not under the care of a medical practitioner, the occupier or keeper of such premises or, in default of such occupier or keeper, the nearest male adult relative living on such premises, or, in default of such relative, occupier or keeper, any person in charge of or in attendance on the sick person or dead body shall, on the nature of the disease becoming known to him or on the suspicion of the existence in such inmate of such disease, forthwith notify the same to any Government Medical Officer or the Medical Officer in charge of the nearest Chinese Public Dispensary, or any officer on duty at the nearest police station or any Sanitary Inspector, who shall immediately on receipt thereof transmit the information to a Health Officer.
71. All persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked by, or is suffering from, or has died from, plague, cholera, smallpox or such other existence of epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease as may from time to time be duly notified in the Gazette, shall notify the same without delay to any officer on duty at the nearest police station, or to any Government Medical Officer or to the Medical Officer in charge of the nearest Chinese Public Dispen- sary or any Sanitary Inspector, and any such officer receiving such information whether verbal or written or discovering any such case, shall notify the same with the least possible delay to a Health Officer, and may detain such person or remove him to a hospital until he can be examined by a Government Medical Officer or a Health Officer.
Notification by keepers of hotels, boarding houses or
commou
lodging- houses,
Delay in notification, failing to notify or
72. If any person in any hotel, boarding house or common lodging-house becomes ill from any infectious, contagious or communicable disease the keeper of such institution shall forthwith give notice thereof to a Health Officer or to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who shall immediately transmit such information to a Health Officer.
73. (1) Any person required under this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder to give information of any infectious disease, or of any death from infectious disease, giving false who neglects without reasonable excuse to give such infor- mation with the least practicable delay, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
information.
Notice of recovery to
to Health
any
(2) Any person who knowingly omits or refuses to give information which he is required to give, or who furnishes as true information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
(3) When any person is charged with neglecting to give information of any infectious disease or any death from an infectious disease he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of such disease, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court before which he is charged that he had no such knowledge and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.
74. When any medical practitioner in attendance on be furnished any person suffering from infectious disease is satisfied that such person has so far recovered as, in the opinion of such medical practitioner, to be no longer a source of infection to others, such medical practitioner shall notify a Health Officer in writing to that effect.
Officer.
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(b) Power of Entry for Search, Examination and
Detention.
75. (1) A Health Officer may enter and search, or Power of direct a Sanitary Inspector to enter and search, any building entry for or enclosure for the purpose of ascertaining whether there search and
is any person suffering from infectious disease or contacts therein and may cause any persons found therein to be examined in order to ascertain whether any of them are infected or have recently been infected.
(2) A Health Officer may further cause any person to be detained for medical examination and may segregate in such place as he may appoint for the purpose any person found to be or suspected to be infected.
(3) A Health Officer or any officer duly authorized by hin, may at any time enter any premises for the purpose of examining, and may examine, any dead body where he has reason to believe that the cause of death has not been certified by a duly qualified medical practitioner or has doubt as to the diagnosis made, and he may if he thinks fit order the removal of such body to any place if such removal is in his opinion necessary for the further examination of the body.
examination,
to authorise
(4)(a) If admission to premises for any of the purposes Power of specified in this section is refused, any magistrate on complaint this thereof on oath by any officer authorised by this section to officer enter and inspect premises (made after reasonable notice in to enter writing of the intention to make the same has been given to the premises.
and inspect person having custody of the premises, if such person there be) may, by order under his hand, require the person having the custody of the premises to admit any officer entitled under this section to inspect the same into the premises, and, if no such person can be found, the magistrate shall, on oath before him of that fact, by order under his band authorise any such officer to enter the premises.
(b) After such order of a magistrate has been obtained, any officer authorised to inspect premises under this section may, if necessary, break into the premises named in the
order.
(c) Any order made by a magistrate under this section shall continue in force until the work for which the entry was necessary has been done.
(c) Restrictions Against the Exposure or Transport of Infected Persons or Infected Articles.
cases
76. Except with the permission of a Health Officer Movement no infected person shall depart from the house or place in of infectious which the disease manifested itself to any other house or restricted. place nor shall any person assist in such departure.
persons and
77.-(1) No person while suffering from an infectious Exposure of disease shall expose himself in any place to which the public infected has access or in any other place used in common by persons transfer of other than the members of the family or household to which infectious such infected person belongs, nor shall any person assist in under proper such exposure.
precautions prohibited.
(2) The transport of infected persons to any hospital or other place approved by the Health Officer if carried out with proper precautions shall not be deemed an offence against this
section.
cases except
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