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for the time being in force in relation to the notification of
infectious diseases, and the work to which this section applies
is the making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting, finishing
and repairing of wearing apparel and any work incidental thereto
and such other classes of work as may be specified by special
order of the Secretary of State.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891. Infectious Diseases.—
Prevention.
58. The following provisions of this Act relating to dangerous
infectious diseases shall apply to the infectious diseases specifically
mentioned in, the foregoing enactment of this Act relating to the
notification of infectious disease, and all or any of such provisions
may be applied by order to any other infectious disease in the
same manner as that enactment may be applied to such disease,
subject to the same power of revoking and varying the order, and
every such infectious disease is in this Act referred to as a
dangerous infectious disease.
The sections of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which
are made to apply to Measles under section 58 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, by the order of the London County
Council, approved by the Local Government Board are 60, 61,
62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, so that clothing can be
made in a house where Measles exists, and can only be dealt with
under section 68 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
It would appear that sub-section 5, sec. 110, of the Factory and
Workshops Act, 1901, requires amending by inserting after the
words " for the time being in force in relation to the notification
of infectious diseases," the following words: "and any other
diseases included under section 58 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, by an order of the London County Council or Sanitary
Authority, approved by the Local Government. Board."
It was suggested to the Committee that the attention of the Home
Office, the Local Government Board and the London County
Council be called to this section.