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Section 60 gives power to Sanitary Anthorities to require the cleansing
and disinfection of infected houses or parts of houses and the disinfection
or destruction of infected articles, and requires them to pay
compensation for articles destroyed or for unnecessary damage caused by
disinfection, and to provide free of charge temporary accommodation for
the shelter of persons during the disinfection of their dwellings.
Section 61 enables Sanitary Authorities to require infected bedding,
clothing, or other articles to be delivered up to them for disinfection
or destruction, and provides that they shall pay compensation for any
unnecessary damage or for any articles destroyed. Any person failing
to comply with a notice by the Sanitary Authority under this Section
is liable to a fine not exceeding Ten Pounds.
Section 62 prohibits persons from knowingly casting, or causing or
permitting to be cast, infectious rubbish into ashpits without previous
disinfection. Any person infringing the provisions of this Section is
liable to a fine not exceeding Five Pounds, and to a further fine of Forty
Shillings for every day during which the offence continues after notice
of such provision has been served on the master of the house by the
Sanitary Authority, which shall on his request provide for the removal
and disinfection or destruction of the aforesaid rubbish.
Section 63 prohibits persons, under a penalty not exceeding Twenty
Pounds, from knowingly letting houses or parts of houses in which
infected person have been lodging until such premises have been disinfected
and until all infected articles therein have been disinfected or
destroyed. For the purposes of this Section the keoper of an inn shall
be deemed to let for hire part of a house to any person admitted as a
guest into such inn.
Section 64 provides that any person letting, or showing for the purpose
of letting, a house or part of a house who knowingly makes a false statement
as to a case of infectious disease being, or having within six weeks
previously been therein, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Twenty
Pounds or to a month's imprisonment with or without hard labour.
Section 65 provides for a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds on persons
ceasing to occupy infected houses or parts of houses without disinfection
or notice of the previous existence of the disease to the owner or master
of the house or part of the house or knowingly making a false answer to
questions on the subject.