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young persons, or women are employed. It is also the duty of
the Authority to see that proper and separate accommodation is
provided for each sex.
Sec. 47 provides that a medical officer of health or sanitary
inspector shall examine all articles intended for the food of man
if unsound, and shall seize the same and obtain an order from a
Justice for its destruction. The fine is raised to a maximum of
£50 for every animal or parcel of food condemned, and should
a person be so convicted twice in twelve months the Court may
order a notice of the facts to be affixed to his premises for a
period not exceeding twenty-one days. Should a person find
himself in the possession of unsound food he himself may give
notice to the Vestry, who must remove the same as trade refuse
and this procedure would seem to relieve him of the penalties
mentioned.
Sec. 48 contains the important provision that a newly-erected
dwelling-house must not be occupied until a certificate has been
obtained of the Sanitary Authority to the effect that a proper and
sufficient supply of water exists. This section seems to be now
more generally understood and imposes much work on the
Public Health Department. The following sections 49, 50, 51,
52, 53 and 54, apply inter alia to water supply generally.
Secs. 55, 56 and 57 re-enact, as elsewhere stated, the provisions
of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act.
Secs. 59, 60 and 61 require the authority to make provisions
for the disinfection of clothing, &c., which provision has been
duly made by the Vestry. The subsequent sections provide that
infectious refuse shall not be treated so as to be dangerous to the
public health, and prescribe penalties on persons letting houses or
apartments in which infectious disease has occurred without
having the same properly disinfected and obtaining a certificate
thereof, which certificate is given to applicants free of charge on