Paddington : report from the Medical Officer of Health on the means for carrying out disinfection in an adequate and effectual manner in the parish.

  • Hardwicke, William.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Paddington : report from the Medical Officer of Health on the means for carrying out disinfection in an adequate and effectual manner in the parish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    CLAUSES IN SANITARY ACT, 1866, 29 <£• 30 Viet., Cap. 90. Sect. 22. If the Nuisance Authority shall bo of opinion, upon the Certificate of any legally qualified Medical Practitioner, that the cleansing and disinfecting of any house or part thereof, and of any articles therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or chock infectious or contagious disease, the Nuisance Authority shall give notice in writing, requiring the owner or occupier of such house or part thereof, to cleanse and disinfect the same, as the case may require ; and if the person to whom notice is so given fail to comply therewith, within the time specified in the notice, he shall bo liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Shillings for every day during which he continues to make default; and the Nuisance Authority shall cause such house, or part thoreof, to bo cleansed and disinfected, and may recover the expen es incurred, from the owner or occupier in default, in a summary manner. Sect. 23. The nuisance authority in each district may provide a proper place, with all necessary apparatus and attendance, for the disinfection of woollen articles, clothing, or bedding which havo become infected, and they may cause any articles brought for disinfection to be disinfected free of charge. Sect. 25. If any person suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder shall enter any public conveyance without previously notifying to the owner or driver thereof that he is so suffering, ho Bhall on conviction thereof before any justice be liable to a ponalty not exceeding Five Pounds, and shall also be ordered by such justice to pay to such owner and driver all the losses and expenses they may suffer in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, and no owner or driver of any public convey- ance shall be required to convey any person so suffering until they shall have been first paid a sum sufficient to cover all such losses and expenses.* Sect. 38. Any person suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder who wilfully exposes himself, without proper precaution against spreading the said disorder, in any street, public place, or public conveyance, and any person in charge of one so suffer- ing who so exposes the sufferer, and any owner or driver of a public conveyance who does not immediately provide for the disinfection of his conveyance after it has, with the knowledge of such owner or driver, conveyed any such sufferer, and any person who without previous disinfection gives, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection from such disorders, shall on conviction of such offence before any justice, be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds : Provided that no proceedings under this section shall bo taken against persons transmitting with proper precautions any such bedding, clothing, rags, or other things for the purpose of having the same disinfected. Sect. 39. If any person knowingly lets any house, room, or part of a house in which any person suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder has been, to any other person without having such house, room, or part of a house, and all articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of a qualified Medical Practitioner, as testified by a certificate given by him, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds. For the purposes of this section the keeper of an Inn shall be deemed to let part of a house to any person admitted as a guest into such Inn. * The Inhabitants of this Parish aro informed that the Fever Carriage may bo had for tho purpose of removing any person suffering from such dangerous infectious disorders by applying to Samuel Haedy, at the Vestry Hall.