A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    authority think requisite for preventing the spread of disease, cause any clothes or bedding used by such person to be disinfected or destroyed, and may, if the local authority think fit, award to the owners of the clothes and bedding so disinfected or destroyed reasonable compensation for the injury or destruction thereof, and such compensation shall be paid to sucia owners by the proper officer of the parish or union in which the common lodging house is situate, out of the rates applicable to the relief of the poor of such parish, the amount of such compensation being first certified in writing upon a list of such articles. 8. The keeper of a common' lodging house in which beggars or ^e''^vts*fro'^*°' vagrants are received to lodge, or other person having the care or ^eep'ers of°coin- management thereof, shall from time to time, if required by any order xaon lodging of the local authority served on such keeper or person, report to the houses kept for local authority, or to such person or persons as the said local authority yaSfanta'^^ shall direct, every person who resorted to such house during tlie preced- ing day or night, and for that purpose schedules shall be furnished by the local authority to the person so ordered to report, which schedules they shall fill up with the information required, and transmit to the local authority. 9. The town council, trustees, commissioners, guardians, and other Power to Town officers and boards specified in the first section of the Nuisances Re- remove cause's'of moval and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848, shall, on the receipt of a complaint certi- certificate of any police constable or of any officer appointed for the in- fled under spection of common lodging houses by the local authority, stating the existence in or about any common lodging house of any of the causes of complaint specified in that section, take all such proceedings as by that section are required to be taken by the town council, trustees, commissioners, guardians, and other officers and boards specified therein on a notice signed by two inhabitant householders, and in like manner as nearly as may be as if such notice had been given ; and the local authority shall have the like powers, and shall take all such proceedings, on receipt of any such certificate of the existence of any such cause of complaint, as the town council, trustees, commissioners, guardians, and other officers or boards have and are empowered and required to take under the pro- visions of that act. [10. Eelates only to Oxford and Cambridge.] 11. The fourteenth section of the recited act extends to offences As to offences against any of the provisions of this act, so as to render the offenders against this Act- liable to the penalties therein expressed ; and any person convicted of any offence against the recited act and this act, or either of them, may, in default of payment of the penalty imposed, be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months in the inanner provided by law in that behalt . n 1 • f 12. Where a keeper of a common lodging house, or a person having ^J^d offence^ or acting in the care or management of a common lodging house, is to disqualify convicted of a third offence against the recited act and this act, or either persons from of them, the justices before whom the conviction for such third offence keeping common takes place may, if they think fit, adjudge that he shall not at any time ° sng ouse. within five years after the conviction, or within such shorter period after the conviction as the justices think fit, keep or have or act in the care or management of a common lodging house without the previous licence in writing of the local authority, which licence the local authority may withhold or may grant on such terms and conditions as they think fit. ^^^^ ^ 13. In a case in which there are not petty sessions for a place fifthly executed by mentioned in section three of the recited act, that act and this act may Justices at Petty be executed within and for all and any part of such place by the justices Sessions. of the peace acting in petty sessions in the petty sessional division within which such place is comprised. As to expenses 14. Where in any place the recited act and this act are executed by of executing justices in petty sessions, the expenses of and incident to the executing ^'^^ Justicoi.