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person in charge of one so suffering. Also, the owner
or driver of a public conveyance who may carry any
person so suffering, without immediately disinfecting
the vehicle; also, any person who may lend, transmit,
or send any articles of clothing which may have been
exposed to infection. I think these clauses should be
printed and distributed at stated intervals, and summonses
taken out if necessary.
Section 26, which is next in order, provides for the
removal to a hospital, on a Justice's order, of any person
suffering from an infectious disease, who is without
proper lodging or accommodation, or lodged in a room
occupied by more than one family. It has not been as
yet, necessary to take action under this clause, in this
district; but it is most important, as it provides for the
removal of a person so affected, against his own will, if
in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health, or any
other qualified medical man, he be not provided with
proper lodging or accommodation. The question to be
decided, of course would be, what is proper lodging
or accommodation; but 1 have no doubt, that the
Magistrate would be guided by the medical opinion in
such a case.
Clause 27, which directs, that the Nuisance authority
may provide a proper place for the reception of the dead,
has been carried out in this district, and has been verv J
useful, for no less than G2 bodies have been deposited
therein. In order to carry out the clause, two notices
are used, one which is served on the friends without