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Credit: [Public health enactments, 1903-1926]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![32. Any building or ])lace wliicli is in tlie opinion of the Health OflBcer suitable and required for the purposes of isolation and treat- ment of persons suffering from, or suspected to be suffering from, disease, and for their detention until thev shall be certified to be free from disease, may, with the written approval of the Resident, be entered upon and occupied, if untenanted without any notice Avha'tso- ever and if tenanted after tiventy-four hours' notice in writing con- spicuously posted on such building or place. The owner or person entitled to the use of such building or place shall not be entitled to claim anything beyond a reasonable rent for the period during which such building or place may be so occupied ; provided always that the Health Officer shall be bound at the cost of Government to cleanse and disinfect the said building or place, and if a building, and he is so required to do, to whitewash it, both internally and externally immediately after vacating it. ' ' ' 33. Except with the written permission of the Health Officerno diseased person, or person having been in contact with disease, shall depart from the house or place in which the disease manifested itself to any other house or place, nor shall any person assist in such departure as aforesaid. 34. The Health Officer may for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of these rules temporarily impress carts or other vehicles ordmanly let for hire with the beasts necessary to draw them and may engage the services of labourers or coolies. The owner of any cart or vehicle so impressed shall not be entitled to claim more than a reasonable suni for the use thereof. All such carts or other vehicles as the Health Officer shall use for the transport of diseased persons or ot things hkely to spread disease shall be thoroughly disinfected by the Health Officer before being returned to their owners. -D v^'Jii^ T^^GGl^t on the requisition of the Health Officer, or of a I'ohce Officer, no owner, driver or person in charge of a public convey- ance sJiall permit any diseased person to enter such conveyance nor shall any diseased person enter a public conveyance, except as afore- (ii.) Whenever it apj^ears to the Health Officer that any vehicle has been infected by disease he may detain such vehicle for such time as may be necessary for the purpose of disinfecting it. iU.^Jii^c^^^'' *J^^?'e^oval of any diseased person from any house the iiedlth Officer shall cause the room which such person occcupied to S tt hS 0 w -'^'^ -^^^ ^-^^ P--^ (ii.) No person except the Health Officer or others authorised by him m writing shall enter such room or house during such period. 37. Whenever the Health Officer shall certify in writing that any house or building which has been occupied by a diseased peifon cannot be effectively disin ected, he may cause such building or such pa?t thereof as he may deem necessary to be destroyed and shall thereimon report he facts to the Resident, who may at his discretion a3 o? witJihold compensation m respect of the house or building or part thereof which has been so destroyed. ^ 1^^'^ clothing and bedding, and personal effects of all persons detained or segregated or removed to a hospital or other suitable Ocpupalion ot buildings foi' hospital. Prohibition of removal of diseased persons. Impress ot vehicles and beasts. Diseased persons not to be carried in public conveyances. Disinfection of room and ([uarantine ot houses. Quarantined houses not to be entered. Destruction of infected buildings. Destruction or disinfection of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21359040_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
