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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 provisions 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 persons 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 keeper 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.
Section 68 prohibits, under a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds,
the exposure of infected persons and articles without proper precautions
-against spreading the disease.
Section 69 prohibits, under a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds,
infected persons from carrying on any occupation in such a manner as to
be likely to spread disease.
Section 70 prohibits the conveyance of infected persons in public
conveyances. The person responsible for such an offence is liable to a
fine not exceeding Ten Pounds and the driver of the conveyance is
further liable to a fine not exceeding Five Pounds, if after conveying
any such person, he fails to give notice to the sanitary authority and to
have the conveyance disinfected.
Section 72 prohibits, under a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds,
the retention for more than 48 hours in a dwelling room, sleeping room