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is in a foul and filthy condition, the medical officer or any such authorised
person may, at any reasonable hour, enter any such common lodging house and
may examine the person and clothing of such inmate. If on examination the
medical officer or such authorised person as aforesaid shall be of opinion that
the person or clothing of such inmate is infested with vermin, or is in a foul
and filthy condition, the medical officer or such authorised person may give to
such inmate notice in writing requiring him within twenty-four hours to
submit his person and clothing to be cleansed in such suitable premises as maybe
specified in the notice, and by means of any suitable appliances available
thereat, for that purpose.
(2) If the inmate to whom any such notice as aforesaid is given fail to comply
therewith within the prescribed time the medical officer, or some person
provided with and, if required, exhibiting the authority in writing of the
Medical Officer may cause the person and clothing of the inmate referred to in
such notice to be properly cleansed in suitable premises and with suitable
appliances, and may for that purpose enter any such common lodging house as
aforesaid and may, if necessary, without any warrant other than this Act
convey to any such premises and there detain such inmate until such cleansing
is effected.
(3) Any person who shall prevent or obstruct the entry of the medical
officer or any such authorised person as aforesaid into any such common
lodging-house as aforesaid for the purposes of this section, and any inmate of
any such common lodging-house who shall refuse to permit the medical officer
or any such authorised person as aforesaid to examine his person or clothing,
or who shall refuse to allow his person or clothing to be cleansed in accordance
with the provisions of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a
penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
(4) In relation to any common lodging-house within the City of London
and the inmates of any such lodging-house, the like powers as are by this
section conferred upon the medical officer and persons authorised by him as
aforesaid, in relation to common lodging-houses elsewhere within the county,
and inmates of such lodging-houses shall be exerciseable by the medical officer
of the said city, or any person provided with and if required exhibiting the
authority of such medical officer and the foregoing sub-sections of this section
shall extend and apply accordingly, and shall be read and have effect as if
such last-mentioned medical officer and authorised persons had been substituted
thereon for the medical officer and persons authorised by him, and as if
the corporation had been subtituted therein for the council.
38.—The council and any sanitary authority may make and carry into
effect agreements and arrangements for or with respect to the cleansing of
the person or clothing of any person under this part of this xVct, and for
the use by the council for the purpose of effecting such c'eansing of any
premises or appliances adapted for such purpose and belonging to or used by
such sanitary authority.
39.—The examination or cleansing of females under this part of this Act
shall only be effected either by a person duly qualified as a medical practitioner,
or by a female person duly authorised as herein-before provided.