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medical officer of health of the district in which the premises are situate
unless notification has already been given to that officer.
(2) Where the medical officer of health of any sanitary district
becomes aware that any such person is suffering from an infectious
disease or has recently been in contact with a person so suffering he
shall forthwith notify the occupier of such premises of the fact, and
where the council of such sanitary district are not the registering
authority for the locality in which the premises are situate he shall
also notify the medical officer of health of the registering authority.
18.—(1) Where the medical officer of health of a sanitary district
is in possession of evidence that any person is suffering from infectious
disease caused by the consumption of milk supplied within the district
from any registered premises or that the milk at any registered premises
within the district has been infected with such disease, he may by a
notice in writing to the occupier of such premises specifying such
evidence require, if the premises are within the district, that no milk
from such premises (or, if the notice so provides, no milk received at
such premises from any specified source) shall be sold for human consumption
or used in the manufacture of products for human consumption,
or, if the premises are without the district, that no such milk shall
be sold for human consumption within the district.
(2) Any such notice shall operate for such period not exceeding
twenty-four hours as may be specified therein from the time of the
receipt of the notice but may be renewed for a further period or periods
of twenty-four hours. The notice shall forthwith be withdrawn as soon
as the medical officer of health is satisfied that the milk is no longer
likely to cause infectious disease.
(3) Where the medical officer of health serves such a notice he shall
forthwith report the matter to the sanitary authority, and if the premises
are within the district he shall forthwith endeavour to ascertain
the causes of the infectious condition of the milk.
(4) Where the milk in respect of which a notice is given under this
article is obtained from any registered premises without the district,
the medical officer of health shall forthwith send a copy of the notice
to the mediial officer of health of the sanitary district from which the
milk is obtained.
(5) No person shall sell milk for human consumption or use milk of
sell milk for use in the manufacture of products for human consumption
contrary to the terms of a notice given by the medical officer of health
under this article.
(6) Where any person sustains any damage or loss by reason of a
notice issued under this article he shall be entitled to full compensation
from the sanitary authority in case it shall appear that no infectious
disease was in fact caused by the consumption of milk from the premises
to whose occupier the notice was addressed or as the case may
be that no milk at such premises had been infected with such disease.
Any dispute as to the right to or the amount of such compensation shall
be settled by arbitration in the same manner as provided by the Public
Health Act, 1875, and any sum awarded as compensation shall be
recoverable as a civil debt: Provided that if the compensation claimed
does not exceed twenty pounds it may at the option of either party
instead of being settled as hereinbefore provided be settled by and
recoverable before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
19.—(1) Where the medical officer of health of the registering
authority by reason of such notification or otherwise suspects that any
of the persons in or about any registered premises who have access to
the milk or to the churns or other milk receptacles is suffering from an
infectious disease or has recently been in contact with any person so
suffering or is in such a condition that there is a danger of his trans-