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Powers required for the first proposition have been obtained in the Liverpool
Corporation Act of 1902, section 43, and the Brighton Corporation Act, 1903,
section 42.
Liverpool Corporation, 1902.
Section 43 (1) The occupier of any building in the City which is used
for human habitation, and in which there is or has been any person
suffering from a dangerous infectious disease, shall on the application
of the Medical Officer of Health, or the Deputy or Assistant Medical
Officer of Health for the City, at any time during the illness of such
person, and within six weeks from the occurrence of such illness,
furnish such information within his knowledge as the Medical Officer
of Health or the Deputy or Assistant Medical Officer of Health may
reasonably require for the purpose of enabling measures to be taken to
prevent the spread of disease.
(2) Any occupier refusing to furnish such information or knowingly
furnishing false information shall be liable on summary conviction to a
penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
(3) "Occupier" shall have the same meaning as in the Infectious Diseases
(Notification) Act, 1889.
Brighton Corporation Act, 1903.
Part VII. Infectious Disease.
42.—Where an inmate of any building used for human habitation within
the Borough is suffering from any infectious disease, then unless such building
is a hospital in which persons suffering from an infectious disease are received,
the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say: —
(1) The head of the family to which such inmate (in this section referred
to as "the patient") belongs, and failing him the nearest relative of
the patient present in the building or being in attendance on the
patient, and failing such relative every person in charge of or in
attendance on the patient, shall upon demand in writing from the
Medical Officer of Health, furnish the following particulars or such
of them as may be demanded, relating to the patient, and to the
members of the family of the patient, so far as the same are within
his knowledge or can be reasonably obtained by him, viz.:—
(а) The name, employment or occupation, and place of
ment or occupation of the patient;
(b) The names of the members of the family of the patient being
inmates of the building in which the disease has occurred,
and their employment or occupation and place of employment
or occupation, and in the case of children attending
school the names of the schools attended.
(2) Every parson being an inmate of the building in which the disease
has occurred, shall upon demand in writing by the Medical Officer of
Health furnish the following particulars or such of them as may be
demanded.