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CAUTION.
Penalties for wilfully Exposing Infected
Bedding, Clothing, &c.
Extract from the Public Health Act of 1866.
"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, and any owner or driver of a public conveyance who does
not immediately provide for the disinfection of his conveyance after
it has, with the knowledge of such owner or driver, conveyed any such
sufferer, and any person who without disinfection gives, lends, sells,
transmits or exposes any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things
which have been exposed to infection from such disorders, shall, on
conviction of such offence before any Justice, be liable to a penalty
not exceeding five pounds.
"If any person knowingly lets any house, room, or part of a house
in which any 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. For the purposes of this Section the
keeper of an Inn shall be deemed to let part of a house to any person
admitted as a guest into his Inn.''
The above, as well as being a Caution to the
General Public, applies specially to Marine
Store Dealers, Laundry-women, Undertakers,
Cabmen, &c.
The Medical Officer of Health begs to caution persons against
removing any portion of bedding, wearing apparel, or furniture from
a room in which any infectious Fever has occurred, and recommends
that early communication be made with him, when he will immediately
supply all the necessary information for disinfecting, &c.
N B.—The burning of infected Articles of Bedding, &c., in
the open air is strictly forbidden.
ARCHER FARR,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Hall, Kennington Green,
January, 1877.