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except for immediate burial or for deposit in a mortuary, the person
removing it shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding £10.
By Sect. 10, if the body of a person who has died from an infectious
disease, be retained for longer than 48 hours, except as aforesaid, or in
such a manner as to endanger the health of the inmates of the house, a/ny
justice may, on the application of the Medical Officer of Health, order
the body to be removed at the cost of the Board to the mortuary, and
be buried within the time limited in the order, or may order immediate
burial. If the friends of the deceased do not bury the body within the
time mentioned in the order, it shall be the duty of the relieving officer
to bury it, and the Guardians may recover the cost from any person
legally bound to pay the amount.
By Sect. 11, any person hiring a public conveyance other than a
hearse for the conveyance of the body of a person who has died from an
infectious disease without notifying to the driver the cause of death shall
be guilty of an offence under the Act. The same penalty, £5, applies to
the driver if he should not immediately provide for the disinfecting
of the vehicle.
It will not be necessary to carry out the provisions of Sect. 12, in
this District, as patients are kept in the Asylums' Board Hospitals,
until they cease to be infectious.
Under the provisions of Sects. 13 and 14, it will be necessary to send
a notice respecting Sections 7 and 13, to the occupier of every house in
which an infectious disease occurs, as under Sect. 13, a penalty not
exceeding £5. is payable by "any person who shall knowingly cast, or
cause or permit to be cast, into any ash-pit, ash-tub, or other receptacle
for the deposit of refuse matter, any infectious rubbish without previous
disinfection." Also bccause any breach of Sect. 7, will entail a
similar penalty.
Sect. 15, provides that " the Board shall provide from time to time,
free of charge, temporary shelter or house accommodation with any
necessary attendants, for the members of any family in which any
infectious disease has appeared, who have been compelled to leave their