CO129-559-4 Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1936 4-2-1936 - 4-2-1936 — Page 26

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Disinfection

of infected vehicles.

Disinfection of houses requisitioned for hospitals.

Disinfection or closing

of dangerous wells.

Temporary closure of buildings after removal

of case.

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97. All such carts and other vehicles as a Health Officer shall use for the transport of infected persons or of things likely to spread infectious disease shall be thoroughly dis- infected by the Health Officer before being returned to their

owners.

98. When any building or place which has been entered on and occupied under the provisions of section 88 is vacated the Health Officer concerned shall be bound at the cost of. Government to cleanse and disinfect the said building or place, and if a building and if he is so required to do, to whitewash it both internally and externally immediately after vacating it.

99. In any case where a Health Officer shall certify in writing that it is necessary as a precaution against the introduction of disease in any place that any well should be filled up, cleansed or disinfected, he may by written order require the owner or occupier of the house or land wherein such well is situated to fill up, cleanse or disinfect such well within a reasonable time to be specified in the order, and such owner or occupier shall fill up, cleanse or disinfect such well accordingly.

100.-(1) If in the opinion of a Health Officer it is necessary in the interests of the public health that the persons residing in a building or part of a building which is infected shall be removed, he may direct that such building or part thereof shall be temporarily closed for such time as is neces- sary to secure its thorough disinfection and the disinfection or destruction of all infected articles contained therein, and it shall not be lawful for any person to reoccupy such build- ing or part thereof until it has been thoroughly cleansed and disinfected as aforesaid.

(2) Such cleansing and disinfection may, with the approval of such Health Officer, be done in whole or in part by the inmates or by persons engaged by them; and further if in the opinion of such Health Officer it is necessary for the thorough purification and disinfection of such premises to take down any lath and plaster or other hollow partition wall or any partition, screen, panelling, wainscotting, skirting, stair- lining, ceiling, or other similar structure or any fittings or any portion of such wall, structure or fitting, the Health Officer shall forthwith have the same taken down, and, if he considers their removal from the premises or the destruction thereof or both to be necessary in the interests of the public health, he shall forthwith cause the same to be removed from the premises or destroyed or both.

(3) Such destruction shall be carried out with such precautions and in such manner as such Health Officer may deem proper, and compensation for such removal or destruc- tion shall be given by the Governor unless it is proved that the wall, structure or fitting removed or destroyed had been unlawfully erected or maintained.

(4) Such compensation shall be calculated so as to cover the cost of making good the portions of the building damaged by such removal, including the limewashing of any exposed surface and the rebuilding of any necessary wall in materials approved by the Governor, but no compensation shall be payable for any loss of rent or deterioration in the value of the property occasioned or alleged to be occasioned by the operation of these provisions.

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