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St Giles (Camberwell) 1883

[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 be 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, disinfected to the satisfaction of a
qualified Medical Practitioner, as testified by a certificate given
by him, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
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 Nuisance authority.