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summary manner, from any person legally liable to pay the expenses of
the burial (Section 10).
Section 12 provides for the detention in a hospital by the order of
a justice and at the cost of the local authority, of an infectious person
who is in the hospital, 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.
Section 16 deals with penalties. For offending against an enactment
where no penalty is specifically imposed.
For example, the offence of wilfully obstructing the duly authorised
officers of the local authority or of obstructing the carrying out of any
order of a justice, the penalty is not to exceed £5 ; and if the offence
is a continuing one a daily penalty not exceeding 40s. a day, so long
as the offence is continued, is incurred.
Penalties will be recoverable in a court of summary jurisdiction on
the information or complaint of the local authority or of their duly
authorised officers, but not otherwise. The amounts are to be paid to
the local authority (Section 18.)
All which is submitted.
GEORGE LANCASTER,
Chairman,
Sanitary Committee.
Vestry Offices, Upper Street, N.
10th November, 1890.