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(3) report to the local authority any noxious or offensive
businesses, trades or manufactories established within his district,
and the breach or non-observance of any by-laws or regulations
made in respect thereof;
(4) report to the local authority any damage done to any works
of water supply or other works belonging to them, and also any
case of wilful or negligent waste of water supplied by them, or any
fouling by gas, filth, or otherwise of water used or intended to be
used for domestic purposes;
(5) from time to time, and forthwith upon complaint, visit
and inspect the shops and places kept or used for the preparation
or sale of any article of food to which the provisions of the statutes
and regulations in that behalf apply, and examine any article of
food therein, and take such proceedings as may be necessary,
provided that in any case of doubt arising under this paragraph,
he shall report the matter to the medical officer of health,
with a view of obtaining his advice thereon;
(6) if so directed by the local authority, carry out the duties
of a sampling officer under the Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act,
1928;
(7) if so directed by the local authority, inspect premises used
as dairies for the purposes of the Milk and Dairies (Consolidation)
Act, 1915, or the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, or any
Act amending those Acts, and any Orders or Regulations made
thereunder;
(8) give immediate notice to the medical officer of health of the
occurrence within his district of any infectious or epidemic disease
or other serious outbreak of illness; and whenever it appears to
him that the intervention of such officer is necessary in consequence
of the existence of any nuisance injurious to health, or of any overcrowding
in a house or of any other conditions affecting the health of
the district, forthwith inform the medical officer of health thereof;
(9) if so directed by the medical officer of health, remove, or
superintend the removal of, patients suffering from infectious
disease to an infectious diseases hospital, and perform or superintend
the work of disinfection after the occurrence of cases of infectious
disease :
(10) if so directed by the local authority, supervise the
scavenging of his district or any part thereof;