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A person will be guilty of an offence under the Act who hires or
uses a public conveyance, other than a hearse, for the conveyance of
the body of a person who has died from an infectious disease, without
previously notifying to the owner or driver of the conveyance that the
person whose body is or is intended to be so conveyed has died from
infectious disease; moreover, if, after such notification, the owner or
driver of the conveyance does not immediately after the conveyance
has been used for conveying the body of a person who has died from
infectious disease provide for the disinfection of the conveyance, he
will bo guilty of an offence under the Act. (Section 11.)
Any person who knowingly casts, or causes or permits to be cast,
into any ash pit, ash-tub, or other receptacle for the deposit of refuse
matter any infectious rubbish without previous disinfection, will also be
guilty of an offence under the Act. (Section 13.) The local authority
are to give notice of this provision to the occupier of any house in
which they are aware that there is a person suffering from an infectious
disease. (Section 14.)
Retention, Removal, and Burial of Dead Bodies.—Without
the sanction in writing of the medical officer of health, or of a
registered medical practitioner, no person may, after the Act comes
into operation, retain unburied, elsewhere than in a public mortuary,
or in a room not used at the time as a dwelling-place, sleeping-place,
or workroom, for more than 48 hours, th6 body of any person who has
died of an infectious disease. (Section 8.)
If a person dies from any infectious disease in a hospital, or place
of temporary accommodation for the sick, and the medical officer of
health, or any other registered medical practitioner, certifies that, in
his opinion, it is desirable, in order to prevent the risk of communicating
any infectious disease, or of spreading infection, that the body
shall not be removed from such hospital or place except for the
purpose of being immediately buried, the Act makes it unlawful for
the body to be removed from such hospital or place except for"
immediate burial. When the body is taken out of the hospital for
that purpose, it is to be forthwith carried or taken direct to some
cemetery or place of burial, and is to be forthwith there buried.
(Section 9.) Any person wilfully offending against this section is
made liable to a penalty not exceeding £10
Detention of Persons in Hospital.—Any justice of the peace
acting in and for the district of the local authority, upon proper cause