Lectures on public health : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons / by E. D. Mapother.

Date:
1867
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    anil Commons, in tins present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : Short Title. 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Diseases Pre- vention Act. 1855.” [Secs. 2 and 3 repealed]. Power of Entry. 4. The local authority and their officers shall have the power of entry for the purposes of this Act, and for executing or superin- tending the execution of the regulations and directions of the general hoard issued under this Act. Power to Privy Council to issue orders that provision herein con- tained for prevention of diseases may he put in force. 5. Whenever any part of England appears to he threatened with or i affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or contagious disease, the Lords and others of her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council, or any three or more of them (the Lord President of the Council or one of her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State being one), may, by order or orders to be by them from time to time made, direct that the provisions herein contained for the pre- vention of diseases be put in force in England, or in such parts thereof as in such order or orders respectively may be expressed, and may from time to time, as to all or any of the parts to which any such order or orders extend, and in like manner, revoke or re- new any such order; and, subject to revocation and renewal as aforesaid, every such order shall be in force for six calendar months, or for such shorter period as in such order shall be expressed; and every such order of her Majesty’s Privy Council, or of any members thereof, as aforesaid, shall be certified under the hand of the clerk in ordinary of her Majesty’s Privy Council, and shall be published in the London Gazette; and such publication shall be conclusive evidence of such order, to all intents and purposes. Power to General Board of Health to issue regulations to carry out such provisions.—Local extent and duration of regulations of General Board. 6. From time to time after the issuing of any such order as aforesaid, and whilst the same continues in force, the General Board of Health may issue directions and regulations, as the said Board think fit: For the speedy interment of the dead: For house . to house visitation : For the dispensing of medicines, guarding against the spread of disease, and affording to persons afflicted by