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disease a notice shall be served on the owner or occupier to cleanse
and disinfect the said premises and articles. If he should neglect to
notify to the Board within 24 hours that he will obey the notice, it
becomes the duty of the Board to do the work and charge the cost to
the owner or occupier and recover the same in a summary manner.
By sub-section 3, if the Board or their Medical Officer of Health is of
opinion that the owner or occupier is unable to carry out the work, it
may be done at the cost of the Board by their Officers.
By Sect. 6, the Board, or the Medical Officer of Health generally
empowered by them in that behalf, may require the owner of any bedding,
clothing, and other articles which have been exposed to infection, to
cause them to be delivered to an Officer of the Board, for the purpose
of disinfection, under a penalty of £10. The articles shall be removed
and disinfected by the Board, and brought back free of charge, and if
they have suffered unnecessary damage, the Board shall compensate
the owner, and the amount shall be recoverable in a court of summary
jurisdiction.
By Sect. 7, every person who shall cease to occupy any house or
part thereof in which any person has within 6 weeks been suffering
from any infectious disease, without having the house or part thereof,
and the articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected to the
satisfaction of a registered medical practitioner, as testified by a
certificate signed by him, or without giving notice to the owner of the
house, of the existence of such disease, or who makes a false statement
in reply to questions by the owner or persons negotiating for the hire
of the house or part thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
£10.
Sect. 8, prohibits the retention of the body of any person who has
died of an infectious disease, for longer than 48 hours, except in a
mortuary, or in a room not used for any other purpose than the
retention of the body.
Sect. 9, enacts that if a person shall die from an infectious disease
in a hospital, and the Medical Officer of Health or any other registered
medical practitioner, certifies that the body shall not be removed,