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A.—Notice to the Inhabitants.
The Board of Works for the St. Giles District.
Offices—No. 197, High Holborn, W.C.
The Infectious Disrase (Notification) Act, 1889.
October, 1889.
The Board desire to draw the attention of the inhabitants of the District
to the provisions of the above Act, which conies into force on the 30th day
of October instant.
By Section 3 of the Act it is provided that where an inmate of a building
used for human habitation, within the district to which the Act extends, is
suffering from an infectious disease to which the Act applies, then, unless such
building is a hospital in which persons suffering from an infectious disease
are received, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say :—-
(a) The head of the family to which such inmate (in this Act referred
to as the patient) belongs, and in his default the nearest relatives
of the patient present in the building or being in attendance on the
patient, and in default of such relatives every person in charge of
or in attendance on the patient, and in default of any such person
the occupier of the building shall, as soon as he becomes aware that
the patient is suffering from an infectious disease to which this Act
applies, send notice thereof to the Medical Officer of Health of
the District.
(b) Every Medical Practitioner attending on or called in to visit
the patient shall forthwith on becoming aware that the patient
is suffering from an infectious disease to which this Act applies,
send to the Medical Officer of Health for the District a certificate
stating the name of the patient, the situation of the building, and
the infectious disease from which, in the opinion of such Medical
Practitioner, the patient is suffering.
Every person, required by this Section to give a notice, who fails to give
the same will be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding Forty
Shillings.
The Notice should be sent to the Medical Officer of Health, by post,
addressed to him at his office, No. 197, High Holborn, W.C.
The expression "infectious disease" means any of the following diseases,
viz., small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the
disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fever, and the fevers known by any of
the following names:—typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued or
puerperal.
The expression "occupier," which occurs in Section 3, is defined by
Section 16 as follows:—
The expression " occupier" includes a person having the charge,
management, or control of a building or part of a building in
which the patient is, and in the case of house the whole of which
is let out in separate tenements, or in the case of a lodging house
the whole of which is let to lodgers, the person receiving the rent
payable by the tenants or lodgers either as his own account or as