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“ 158—(1) if a person ceases to occupy a house or part of
a house in which to his knowledge a person has within
six weeks previously been suffering from a notifiable
disease and either—
(a) fails to have the house, or part of the house,
and all articles therein liable to retain infection,
disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of
health of the district or some other registered medical
practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him;
or
(b) fails to give the owner of the house, or the
part of the house, notice of the previous existence of
the disease; or
(c) on being questioned by the owner as to whether
within the preceding six weeks there has been therein
any person suffering from any notifiable disease, makes
a false answer to such question,
he shall be liable, in the case of an offence under
paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this subsection, to
a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and, in the case
of an offence under paragraph (c) to a fine not
exceeding twenty pounds or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding one month.
—(2) The local authority shall give notice of the
provisions of this section to the occupier and also to
the owner of any house in which they are aware that
there is a person suffering from a notifiable disease.”
(b) To the Owner:
Notification having been received under Section 144 of
the Public Health Act, 1936, that an inmate of the above
premises is suffering from a notifiable disease, I hereby
give you notice of the provisions of Section 158 of the
Public Health Act, 1936.
This Section provides as follows:—
“ 158—(1) if a person ceases to occupy a house or part of
a house in which to his knowledge a person has within
six weeks previously been suffering from a notifiable
disease and either—
(a) fails to have the house, or part of the house,
and all articles therein liable to retain infection,
disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of
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