Instructional observations and notes on the cholera regulations issued by the Privy Council / by W.G. Lumley.

  • Lumley, W. G. (William Golden), 1802-1878.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Instructional observations and notes on the cholera regulations issued by the Privy Council / by W.G. Lumley. 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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    poses of the said Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, and all the Provisions of the said Act shall apply accordingly. Two or more Authorities having respectively the power to provide separate hospitals may combine in providing a common hospital, and all expenses incurred by such Authorities in providing such hospital shall be deemed to be expenses incurred by them respectively in carrying into effect the purposes of this Act. 38. Any person suffering from any dangerous infec- Penalty on tious disorder who wilfully exposes himself, without ^^tafec^ proper precaution against spreading the said disorder, tious ^is- in any street, public place, or public conveyance, and any order, ex- person in charge of one so suffering who so exposes the ^ sufferer, and any owner or driver of a public conveyance “n any‘’per. who does not immediately provide for the disinfection of sou in charge his conveyance after it has, with the knowledge of such of such owner or driver, conveyed any such sufferer, and any ^g 8UCh person who without previous disinfection gives, lends, exposure, 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 ex- ceeding Five Pouuds : Provided that no proceedings under this section shall be taken against persons trans- mitting with proper precautions any such bedding, clothing, rags, or other things for the purpose of having the same disinfected. 39. If any person khowingly lets any house, room, or Penalty on part of a house, in which any person suffering from any persons dangerous infectious disorder has been, to any other houses in person without having such house, room, or part of a which house, and all articles therein liable to retain infection, infected disinfected to the satisfaction of a qualified Medical ^™'j^'ave Practitioner as testified by a certificate given by him, jng s 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. 40. Where in any place two or more Boards of Guar- Guardians, dians or local authorities have jurisdiction, the Privy ofthe Council may, by any order made under the Diseases fhe^ocal Prevention Act, 1855, authorize or require such Boards authorities to act together for the purposes of that Act, and may for ex.-euc- prescribe the mode of such joint action and of defraying Ulsaase9 the costs thereof. Prevention Sect. 52 is printed above, p. 19.