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(3) Every person in charge of, or in attendance on the
patient, and in default of any such person
(4) The occupier of the house.
The Act also requires that every Medical Practitioner
attending on, or called in to visit the patient, shall forthwith,
on becoming aware that the patient is suffering from
Infectious Disease, send to the Medical Officer of Health a
certificate stating the name of the patient, the situation of the
house, and the Infectious Disease from which the patient is
suffering.
Every person required to give a Notice or Certificate as
above-mentioned, who fails to give the same, is liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 40s.
The definition of "Infectious Disease" includes the
following diseases:—Small-pox; Cholera; Diphtheria;
Membranous Croup; Erysipelas; the disease known as Scarlatina
or Scarlet Fever; the fevers known by any of the
following names:—Typhus, Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing,
Continued, or Puerperal.
In the early part of the year the Board had occasion to
take proceedings against the head of a family for failing to
give the notice required. On the hearing of the summons
the offence was proved, and the defendant was convicted and
fined 5s. and 2s. costs of summons, the Magistrate remarking
that he imposed the small penalty the summons being the
first under the Act. The Board have from time to time
directed special attention to the provisions of this Act, by
public announcement and otherwise.
Houses let in Lodgings and occupied by more than
One Family.
The Regulations adopted by the Board under the provisions
of the 35th section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, are
printed in a separate form, and can be obtained at the
Board's Offices. The same apply to all houses let in lodgings,
with the following exceptions:—