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shown to him, may make an order directing the detention in hospital,
at the cost of the local authority, of any person suffering from an
infectious disease, who is then in an hospital for infectious disease,
and would not. on leaving the hospital, be provided with lodging or
accommodation in which proper precautions could be taken to prevent
his spreading the disorder. The order may be limited to some specific
time, but any justice has power to enlarge the time as often as may
appear to him to be necessary.
On such an order being made, any officer of the local authority
or inspector of police acting in the district, or any officer of tbe
hospital, is empowered to take all necessary measures and do all
necessary acts for enforcing the execution of the order. (Section
12.) . . .
Such are the main features of the Act, for the enforcement
of which Justices are authorised to make orders in
certain cases, and for the breach of which the infliction of
penalties is provided.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890.
This Acts consolidates and amends the various Acts
relating to Artizans and Labourers' Dwellings, including
those known as Torrens' Acts, Cross's Acts, and Lord
Shaftesbury's Acts.
Unhealthy areas are to be dealt with by the County
Council, and the provisions of the Act in regard thereto
need not therefore be noticed here.
Unhealthy dwellings, obstructive buildings, and groups
of buildings, insanitary in themselves or their surroundings,
and too small to be classed as an unhealthy area, come
within the jurisdiction of the Vestry, who are required to
act upon a report by the Medical Officer of Health, of any
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