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(d) The detention in hospital of persons suffering from infectious
disease who would, on leaving the hospital, be without proper
lodging; and
(e) The provision of temporary shelter and attendance for members
of families who have been compelled to leave their dwellings
for the purpose of the dwellings being disinfected by the local
authority
The infectious diseases to which the Act primaiily applies are
those mentioned in section 6 of the Infectious disease (Notification)
Act, 1889.
Inspection of Dairies and Prohibition of Supply of Milk.—
Section 4 of the Act provides that in case the medical officer of health
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 the dairy is likely to cause infectious disease
to any person residing in the district, the medical officer shall, if
authorised in that behalf by an order of a justice having jurisdiction in
the place where the 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 in the dairy. If,
on such inspection, the medical officer of health is of opinion that
infectious disease is caused from consumption of the milk supplied from
the dairy, be is to make a report to the local authority whose officer he
is. This report must be accompanied by any report that may be
furnished to him by the veterinary inspector or veterinary surgeon above
mentioned. The local authority may thereupon give notice to the
dairyman to appear before them within such time, not less than 24
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 from the
dairy within the district until the order has been withdrawn by the
local authority. If, in the opinion of the local authority, he fails to
show such cause, they may make the order. Notice of the facts must
forthwith be given by the local authority to the sanitary authority and
county counoil of the district or county in which the dairy is situate,
and also to the Local Government Board. The order may, however, be
forthwith withdrawn on the local authority, or the medical officer of
health on their behalf, being satisfied that the milk supply has been
changed, or that the cause of the infection has been removed