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The following is a brief summary of the sections referred to, as supplied by the
London County Council in their communication of March 16th:—
Section 60 gives power to sanitary authorities to require the cleansing
and disinfection of infected houses or parts cf houses, and the disinfection
or destruction of infected articles, and requires them to pay compensation
for articles destroyed or for unnecessary damage caused by disinfection, and
to provide, free of charge, temporary accommodation for the shelter of persons
during the disinfection of the dwellings.
Section 61 enables sanitary authorities to require infected bedding,
clothing, or other articles, to be delivered up to them for disinfection or
destruction, and provides that they shall pay compensation for any unnecessary
damage or for 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 provision
has been served upon 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 oocupy 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 make a false answer to questions
on the subject.