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" polluted " and " or dangerous," all in 5th and the 6th lines of
the section.
' Sec. 55 amends the former act by requiring the medical practitioner
who notifies to the Sanitary Authority, to
Infectious amplify the particulars, in accordance with the
Diseases.— amended form. It also modifies the duties of
Notification. Superintendents to the Asylums Board Hospitals
so far as concerns notification to Sanitary Authorities.
It further requires that the Medical Officer of Health
shall, within twelve hours from the receipt of notification of an
infectious disease, send a copy " to the head teacher of the school
" attended by the patient (if a child), or by any child who is an
" inmate of the same house as the patient." It is also enacted
that the Metropolitan Asylum Managers shall send weekly " to
" every Medical Officer of Health such return of the infectious
" diseases of which they receive certificates in pursuance of this
" section as the County Council require."
Sec. 60 gives power to any legally qualified Medical Practitioner
as well as to the Medical Officer of Health, to
Infectious certify that the "destruction of such articles"
Diseases: would tend to prevent or check any.dangerous
Prevention, infectious disease. The Sanitary Authority shall
then serve notice on the master, " or where the
house or part is unoccupied on the owner." Then the Sanitary
Authority must be responsible for the proper and efficient performance
of this duty.
Sees. 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67. and 68, are re-enactments of
former law with some few " Master of any house or part of a house " is the person primarily
responsible under this part of the ACt.
Sees. 69 and 70 enact that " A person who knows himself to be
" suffering from a dangerous infectious disease shall not milk any
" animal or pick fruit, and shall not engage in any occupation
" connected with food, or carry on any trade or business in such a
" manner as to be likely to spread the infectious disease, and if he
" does so he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds. It
" shall not be lawful for any owner or driver of a public con"
veyance knowingly to convey, or for any other person knowingly
" to place, in any public conveyance, a person suffering from any