Precautions to be taken by local authorities towards preventing the spread of small pox / by James B. Hutchins.

  • Hutchins, J. B. (James B.)
Date:
[1871?]
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Credit: Precautions to be taken by local authorities towards preventing the spread of small pox / by James B. Hutchins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    which the o^vner may be put for the purpose of disinfecting such conveyance. (Sec. 25.) Any owner or driver who has knowingly used a pubhc conveyance for conveying a person suffering as above, and who does not, immediately aftenvards, provide for the dis- infection of such conveyance, is liable to a penalty of ;^5. (Sec. 38.) Any person suffering from a dangerous in- fectious disorder who -wdthout proper precaution wilfully exposes himself in any street, public place, or public conveyance, is liable to a penalty of ^5. (Sec. 38.) Any person who so publicly exposes another when suffering as above is liable to a penalty of £5- (Sec. 38.) Any person who give, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection, without having previously had the same disinfected, is liable to a penalty of £S- (Sec. 38.) Any person who knowingly lets any house, room, or part of a house in which there has been any person suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder, without having previously had such house, room, or part of a house, and all articles therein liable to retain infection properly disinfected and procurred a medical certificate to that effect, is liable to a penalty of ;^2o. (Sec. 39.) [N.B.—The keeper of an inn is deemed to let part of a house to any person who is admitted as a guest into such inn.] It should be especially borne in mind by the public at large, as well as by Local Authorities, that each