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(e) The provision of temporary shelter and attendance for
members of families who have been compelled to leave
their dwellings for the purpose of the dwellings being
disinfected by the Local Authority.
Section 4 enables a Medical Officer of Health, under specified
conditions, to inspect a dairy, within or without the district of
his Local Authority, if he has evidence that infectious disease in
the district is attributable to milk from the dairy. Upon his
report that infectious disease is caused by consumption of the
milk supplied from the dairy, the Local Authority may require the
dairyman to appear before them, after not less than twenty-four
hours' notice, to show cause why an Order should not be made
requiring him not to supply any milk from the dairy within their
district until the Order has been withdrawn by the Local Authority.
If the Order should be made, certain notices have to be given.
The Order may be withdrawn forthwith by the Authority, or the
Medical Offiicer on their behalf, if satisfied that the milk supply
has been changed, or that the cause of the infection has been
removed. The clause is likely to prove practically inoperative,
as in cases to which it would apply the delay involved would be
fatal to its utility.
Section 5 repeals Section 22 of the Sanitary Act, 1866, and
substitutes provisions, in regard to disinfection, to the effect that
where the Medical Officer of Health, or any other registered
medical practitioner, certifies as to the necessity for cleansing
and disinfection after infectious disease, the Clerk to the Local
Authority is to give notice to the owner or occupier, that the house
or part, and infected articles therein, will he disinfected at the
cost of the owner or occupier, unless he, within twenty-four
hours from the receipt of the notice, informs the Authority that
he will do the cleansing and disinfection to the satisfaction of the
Medical Officer within a time fixed in the notice. If within
twenty-four hours from the receipt of the notice, the person to
whom it is given does not inform the Authority that he will so do