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may be destroyed instead of disinfected. Temporary
accommodation is to be provided, free of charge, for persons
displaced while the work of cleansing and disinfection is
being carried out, and compensation is to be paid for any
damage to the house or contents and for the destruction of
any articles. (Sec. 60.)
Notice is to be given to the master of any house, or part
of a house, in which infectious disease exists, that no
infectious rubbish is to be thrown into the ashpit without
previous disinfection, and, if requested, the Sanitary
Authority are to provide for the removal and disinfection
or destruction of any such rubbish. (Sec. 62.)
Notice is also to be given to the master of any house, or
part of a house, in which there is a person suffering from
a dangerous infectious disease, that a penalty attaches to
the ceasing to occupy such house, or part, without disinfection,
or failure to give notice to the owner or master of the
house of the existence of such disease, or to giving a false
answer when questioned by the owner or master of the
house, or any person negotiating for the hire of such house,
or part, as to any person having within the previous six
weeks suffered in such house, or part, from any such
disease. (Sec. 65.)
The Sanitary Authority may remove any person who
is suffering from any dangerous infectious disease and is
without proper lodging or accommodation, to any hospital
in, or within a convenient distance of, London, subject to
the consent of the managers of the hospital. (Sec. 66.)
This provision will enable patients dangerous to the community
to be compulsorily removed to any hospital of the
Asylums Board.