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16. Infectious Diseases.—The keeper of a registered house shall give
immediate notice in writing to the Medical Officer of Health, or to the Inspector,
and verbal notice to every lodger, when anyone therein is ill or dead of small-pox,
typhus, enteric (or typhoid) fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, or any other
dangerously infectious or contagious disease, and he shall carry out without delay
all measures for disinfection which the Medical Officer or the Inspector may
direct
17. Every lodger in a registered house shall give immediate notice in
writing to the keeper, and to the Medical Officer of Health, or to the Inspector,
and verbal notice to every lodger, when anyone is ill or dead of small-pox,
typhus, enteric, (or typhoid) lever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, or any other
dangerously infectious or contagious disease, in any room occupied by him,
and he shall carry out without delay all measures for disinfection which the
Medical Officer or the Inspector may direct.
18. Animals.—The keeper of a registered house, or any lodger therein,
shall not suffer any animal to be kept in any part thereof, under his control, so as
to render the premises filthy or unwholesome.
19. Inspection.—The keeper of, and every lodger in, a registered house,
shall allow such house and every part thereof to be inspected by the Medical
Officer of Health, or the Inspector, on his application, at any hour, and shall not
obstruct him in the execution of his duty ; provided always that no inspection by
the Inspector shall take place between the hours of 9 p. m. and 6 a. m. without
the written authority of the Medical Officer of Health.
20. Penalties.—Every person who offends against any of the foregoing
Bye- Laws shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for any one offence,
with an additional penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for every day during
which a default in obeying such Bye-Laws may continue.
Registered Houses.—At the request of the sanitary
committee a return was prepared, in 1896, showing the streets
in which houses had been registered, the number of the houses
registered in each street, and the number of houses not
registered in the several streets. This return is here corrected
to date for each of the sanitary districts, as follows:—