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Section 57. Dairymen supplying milk within the Borough to notify infectious disease existing
among their servants.
Section 58. A person who knows himself to be suffering from an infectious disease shall not milk
any animal, or pick fruit, or engage in any occupation connected with food intended for the use of man, or
carry on any trade or business so as to be likely to spread the disease.
Section 59 prohibits the sale of the milk of tuberculous cows.
Section 60. Dairymen supplying milk within the Borough to notify all cases of tuberculosis or
milk fever to his knowledge occurring in his dairy.
Section 62. Dairymen who stop supplying milk at the request of the Corporation to be
compensated.
Section 63. Midwives and nurses who stop their employment at the request of the Corporation to
be compensated.
Section 64 provides a penalty on the person having charge of a child, who resides in a house where
an infectious disease has existed within six weeks, permitting the said child to attend school without a
medical certificate.
Section 65 provides a penalty on any person having charge of a school who shall knowingly permit
any child to attend school in contravention of the provisions of this Act.
Section 66. Whenever a scholar shall be suffering from an infectious disease, the principal of the
school shall, at the request of the Corporation, furnish a list of pupils with their addresses.
Section 67 enables the Corporation to pay the expenses of maintenance of patients other than
paupers received into the Borough Hospital.
Part VIII.—Common Lodging-houses. Section 69 requires the keeper or his authorized deputy to
reside constantly and remain within his common lodging-house between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Section 70 provides a penalty, not exceeding forty shillings, on every person who keeps a common
lodging-house without being registered in accordance with section 77 of the Public Health Act, 1875.
Section 71. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 88 of the Public Health Act, 1875, where
a common lodging-house keeper has been convicted of any offence against the provisions of the Public Health
Act, or of this Act or any other Act in force within the Borough, or of any bye-law made under the authority
of any of such Acts in respect of common lodging-houses, the court before whom the conviction takes place
may cancel the registration of any such common lodging house keeper.
Section 72. The Corporation may refuse to license any person as keeper of a common lodging-house,
unless they are satisfied of his character and fitness for the position.
Other provisions of a sanitary tendency contained in the Act are section 31, which enables the
Corporation to require yards or open spaces in connection with any house to be flagged or paved for at least
100 square feet adjoining the house, and section 34, which deals with licenses for the erection of slaughterhouses
and knacker's-yards.