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need to be carried out. It is as follows:—The Sanitary
Authority shall provide, free of charge, temporary shelter
or house accommodation, with any necessary attendants for
the members of any family, in which any dangerous infectious
disease has appeared, who have been compelled to
leave their dwellings for the purpose of enabling them to be
disinfected by the Sanitary Authority.
Further, the present Act not simply re-enacts that
no one shall knowingly cast any rubbish infected by any
dangerous infectious disease into any ash-pit without
previous disinfection under a penalty, but additionally
enacts that the Authority shall cause their officers to serve
notice of the provisions of the Section (62) on the responsible
person, and on the request of such person shall
provide for the removal and disinfection or destruction of
such rubbish.
Clause 69 enacts that any one who knows himself to
be suffering from any dangerous infectious disease shall not
milk any animal, or pick fruit, or carry on any trade or
business, or engage in any occupation connected with food.
in such a manner as to be likely to spread infection. This
enactment is new.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Enactments in regard to many other matters besides
those which I have hitherto brought under your notice, are
contained in the Act, and more or less important changes in
or additions to former enactments are made by them. But
I have not thought it desirable at present to bring them
specially under your notice for many reasons; and mainly