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4.—The driver of a cab may refuse to take any such person
unless he is paid a sum of money sufficient to defray the
expenses of disinfecting his cab.
5—Any cabman taking another fare after conveying an infected
person without previously disinfecting his cab, is liable to a
penalty of £5.
6.—It is illegal for an infected person to go, or for any person to
take or send any one suffering from an infections disease to
any public place, such as the waiting room of a hospital or
dispensary, or to a school, or a church, or a chapel, or a
theatre, or omnibus or other public carriage, so as to endanger
any other persons, whether adults or children.
7.— It is also illegal for any person to give, lend, or sell, or move
to another place, or expose, any bedding, clothing, rags, or
other things, which may have become infected, and are liable
to convey any contagious diseases to another person, unless
such things have been previously disinfected.
8.—It is also illegal to let any house, room, or part of a house,
in which any person has been ill with any dangerous infectious
disease, until it and all articles in it have been
properly disinfected. The same law also applies to public
houses, hotels, and lodging houses. The penalty for disobedience
in these cases is £20.
9.—When persons have had infectious diseases, whether they get
well or die, the room in which they have been ill should be
disinfected; the floor should be washed with chloride of lime
and water, or carbolic acid and water; the paper should be
removed by moistening with carbolic acid and water, or with
Condy's fluid and water; the room should then be fumigated
by burning sulphur in an iron dish, the fireplace, crevices in
windows and doors being closed by putting paper over them
—the room should be exposed to the sulphur vapour for five
or six hours; or the room may be fumigated in the same
way with chlorine vapour, which is procured by pouring oil
of vitriol on common salt and oxide of manganese.
10.—After the room has been fumigated it should be lime-whited,
and the doors and windows kept open for a week or a fortnight.