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St Giles (Camberwell) 1877

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

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2.—Any person suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder
who wilfully exposes himself, without proper precaution against
spreading the said disorder, in any street, public place, or public
conveyance, and any person in charge of one so suffering who so
exposes the sufferer, shall bo liable to a penalty not exceeding Five
Pounds.
3.—Any owner or driver of a public conveyance who does not
immediately provide for the disinfection of his conveyance after it
has conveyed any such sufferer, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding Five Pounds.
4.—Any person who, without previous disinfection, gives,
lends, sells, transmits, or exposes any bedding, clothing, rags, or
other things that have been exposed to infection from such disorder,
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.
5.—If any person knowingly lets any house, room, or part of
a house in which a person suffering from any dangerous infectious
disorder has been, to any other person, without having such house,
room, or part of a house, and all articles therein liable to retain
infection, dieinfccted to tho satisfaction of a qualified Medical
Practitioner, as testified by a certificate given by him, such person
shall be liable to a penalty not oxceeding Twenty Pounds.
6.—When any dead body of one who has died of any infectious
disease is retained in a room in which persons live or sleep, any
Justice may, on a certificate signed by a legally qualified Medical
Practitioner, order the body to be removed to a mortuary at the cost
of the Nuisnnce authority.