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of any contractor, demands from an occupier or his servant
any fee or gratuity, he will be liable to a fine not exceeding
twenty shillings.
Again, if the Sanitary Authority are required to
remove any trade refuse, they must do so, but the owner or
occupier must pay a reasonable sum for the removal thereof.
By Section 47 ; when a person has in his possession
any article which is unsound or unwholesome or unfit for
the food of man, he may, by written notice to the Sanitary
Authority, request its removal, and the Sanitary Authority
shall remove it as if it were trade refuse.
It is further enacted by Clause 36, that any Sanitary
Authority may, if they think fit, contract for the removal
of, or themselves remove, manure and other refuse matter
from stables or cow-houses, provided the occupier gives his
consent in writing.
UNSOUND FOOD.
The enactments in reference to unsound food are
stringent, and an important addition is made to the powers
of Sanitary Authorities in that under the term unsound food
are included all kinds of food (solid or fluid) intended for
the use of man.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
With respect to notification only a few, and on the
whole, unimportant changes have been made. In the first
place the form of the Medical Certificate of Notification has
been altered in certain particulars; and in the next place