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Section 4 enables a Medical Officer of Health, under specified
conditions, to inspect a dairy within or without the district of his local
authority, if he has evidence that infectious disease in the district is
attributable to milk from the dairy. Upon his report that infectious
disease is caused by consumption of the r . ilk supplied from the dairy,
the local authority may require the dairyman to appear before them,
after not less than twenty-four hours' notice, to show cause why an
order should not be made requiring him not to supply any milk from
the dairy within his district, until such order has been withdrawn by
the local authority.
The order may be withdrawn forthwith by the authority, or by the
Medical Officer on their behalf, should he be satisfied that the milk
supply has been changed, or that the cause of the infection has been
removed. (The clause is likely to prove practically inoperative on
account of the delay that would be unavoidable.)
Section 5 repeals Section 22 of the Sanitary Act, 1866, and
substitutes provisions in regard to disinfection to the effect that where
the Medical Officer of Health, or any other registered medical practitioner,
certifies as to the necessity for cleansing and disinfection after
infectious disease, the Clerk to the Local Authority is to give notice to
the owner or occupier that the house or part of the house, as well as
infected articles therein, will be disinfected at the cost of the owner or
occupier unless such owner or occupier within twenty-four hours from
the receipt of the notice informs the authority that he will himself do
the cleansing and disinfection to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer
of Health within a time fixed in the notice. If within twenty-four
hours from the receipt of the notice the person to whom it is given
does not inform the authority that he will so do the cleansing, &c., or
if, having so informed the authority, he fails to have the work done
within the time fixed in the notice, the work shall be done by the
officers of the local authority under the superintendence of the
Medical officer of Health.
The expenses incurred may be recovered from the owner or occupier
in a summary manner. Where the owner or occupier is unable
effectually to cleanse and disinfect, the officers of the local authority,
with the consent of the owner or occupier, may do the work at the cost
ot the authority, without the notice already referred to being given.