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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 [nfcctious
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 limewhited,
and the doors and windows kept open for a week or a
fortnight.
11.—The means for conveying Persons to the Fever Hospital
or Small Pox Hospital, can be ascertained by applying at the
"Workhouse, in Poland Street, or at the Yestry Hall, Piccadilly.
The great deficiency of the Act of 1866, as of all
other English legislation on sanitary matters, is that
no public prosecutor is appointed. If Vestries