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families or persons inhabiting it, and that due provision is made for their sanitary requirements.
And if the house be constructed so as to afford such accommodation, and due
provision be made as aforesaid, he shall certify the same accordingly. This section originally
applied to houses paying a rental of 7s. 6d. per week. There has since been an alteration
made in the amount of rent by an Act passed July 3rd, 1891, which enacts that the
" annual value of each such dwelling shall not amount to twenty pounds."
Second.—"The Infectious Diseases (Prevention) Act, 1890." This Act seems to have
been a sort of forerunner to the great Act—the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Section 4 deals with the inspection of dairies; it gives power to the Medical Officer
of Health, if he "is in possession of evidence that any person in the district is suffering
from infectious disease attributable to milk supplied within the district from any dairy
situate within or without the district, or that the consumption of milk from such dairy
is likely to cause infectious disease to any person residing in the district; such Medical
Officer shall, if authorised in that behalf by an order of a Justice having jurisdiction
in the place where such dairy is situate, have power to inspect such dairy, and if
accompanied by a Veterinary Inspector or some other properly qualified Veterinary
Surgeon, to inspect the animals therein; and if on such inspection the Medical Officer
of Health shall be of opinion that infectious disease is caused from consumption
of the milk supplied therefrom, he shall report thereon to the local authority, and his
report shall be accompanied by any report furnished to him by the said Veterinary
Surgeon, and the local authority may thereupon give notice to the dairyman to appear
before them within such time, not less than twenty-four hours, as may be specified in
the notice, to show cause why an order should not be made requiring him not to
supply any milk therefrom within the district until such order has been withdrawn by
the local authority; and if, in the opinion of the local authority, he fails to show
such cause, then the local authority may make such order as aforesaid; and the local
authority shall forthwith give notice of the facts to the sanitary authority and County
Council (if any) of the district or county in which such dairy is situate, and also to
the Local Government Board. An order made by a local authority in pursuance of
this section shall be forthwith withdrawn on the local authority or the Medical Officer
of Health on its behalf being satisfied that the milk-supply has changed, or that the