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15. No Water Company should be allowed to withdraw
the water supply to any inhabited dwelling house or to cease
to supply such dwelling house with water for non-payment of
rate or any other cause. (Sec. 49.)
16. Measles should be included as an infectious disease
notifiable to the Sanitary Authority. (Sees. 55 to 58.)
17. Associated Practitioners should only be required to
forward one certificate of any particular case of infectious
disease. (Sec. 55.)
18. Power should be given to the Sanitary Authority to
pay for the voluntary notification of certain diseases other than
those specified in the Act. (Sec. 55.)
19. The words "or of any other legally qualified medical
practitioner" should be deleted so as to provide that disinfection,
&c., of houses or infected articles shall be carried out to the
satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health. (Sec. 60.)
20. It should be made clear that the expression "proper
lodging or accommodation " in this section means proper lodging
or accommodation for treatment ard isolation, and that it is
intended to secure precautions being taken for the prevention of
the spread of notifiable diseases, viz., by the removal to hospital,
when necessary, of patients suffering from such diseases. (Sec. 66.)
21. The Justice's order should provide for prohibiting the
removal of milk from any dairy without the sanction of the
Sanitary Authority, who should be empowered to have it
destroyed, and to pay compensation for the same. (Sec. 71.)
22. Provision should be made to require from a milk seller,
under penalty for default, disclosure of the source from which
the milk had been obtained. (Sec. 71.)
23. The word "separately" should be deleted wherever it
occurs in this section. (Sec. 96.)