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REGULATIONS.
Agricultural Produce Grading and Marking (General) Regulations, 1928.
,, ,, Grading and Marking (Apples and Pears) Regulations, 1928.
,, ,, Grading and Marking (Eggs) Regulations, 1928.
Public Health (Condensed Milk) Amendment Regulations, 1927.
,, ,, (Dried Milk) Amendment Regulations, 1927.
,, ,, (Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1927.
,, ,,(Notification of Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia) Amendment
Regulations, 1928.
,, ,, (Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Amendment Regulations, 1928.
„ ,, (Preservatives, etc., in Food) Regulations (Part).
The Merchandise Marks (Imported Goods) No. 3 Order, 1928 (Part).
L.C.C. (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1928.
Part IV, Section 24, applies the following sections of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, to urinals to the same extent as they apply to water closets:
Section 39 (Bye-laws as to water closets, etc.)
,, 40 (Power for Sanitary Authority to authorise examination of water
closets, etc.)
,, 41 (Penalty on persons improperly making or altering water closets,
etc.)
,, 42 (Improper construction or repair of water closet or drain.)
,, 25 provides that any person having charge or control of premises in
which is lying the body of a person who has died from any
infectious disease to which Section 55 (Notification of Infectious
Disease) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, applies shall
take such steps as may be reasonably practicable to prevent
persons coming into contact with the body unnecessarily, and
provides a penalty for non-compliance.
,, 26 contains provision for the compulsory cleansing of verminous
persons refusing to go to a cleansing station, and gives power to
the local Authority to provide such cleansing apparatus and
attendants as may be necessary.
,, 27 authorises a Justice of the Peace, on the application of a Medical
Officer, to issue a warrant to enter any common lodging house in
the district in which he has reason to believe there is a person
suffering, or who has recently suffered, from any infectious
disease to which Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, applies, and for the examination of such person.
,, 28 is the Section which provides for the removal of aged or physically
incapacitated persons residing in premises which are insanitary,
or who is suffering from any grave chronic disease, and is unable
to devote to himself or to receive from persons with whom he
resides proper care and attention, and for the detention of such
persons by the Guardians at the cost of the Local Autliority.