[Public health enactments, 1903-1926].

  • Federated Malay States
Date:
1903-1926
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Credit: [Public health enactments, 1903-1926]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liealtli, the Senior Police Officer shall forthwith a])ply to the nearest Magistrate for an order authorising the removal of such person to a hospital, asylum or other building provided for the reception of lepers; and such Magistrate may in his discretion grant or i-efuse such order. (ii.) Every such order shall be in writing, and shall be signed by the Magistrate granting the same, and by the certifying Surgeon, and shall be sufficient authority for the removal of the person therein named to the hospital, asylum or other building specified in the order, whether the same be within or without the State. (iii.) A person so removed to a hospital, asylum or other building shall remain there until discharged by the Medical Officer in charge of such hospital, asylum or building, and in the event of his escaping may be capturecl by the officer in charge thereof or by any officer or sei-vant belonging thereto, or by any Police Officer, and may be re-con- veyed thereto, and received and detained therein. (iv.) Any person aggrieved by an order of a Magistrate made under this section may appeal to the Senior Magistrate's Court, which may confirm, reverse, or vary such order. 52. No leper shall carry on or be employed in the trade or calling of Tmdes baker, butcher, gardener, cook, or any trade or calling involving contact fj^rs^'*'^'^ ^ with articles of food or drink, drugs, medicines, or tobacco in any form; or that of washerman, tailor, or any trade or calling involving the manufacture of or contact with wearing apparel; or that of barber, or any trade or calling involving contact with other persons ; or that of domestic sei-vant, nurse, jiurikisha puller, or hackney carriage driver; and no person shall knowingly employ a leper in any such trade or calling. 53. No leper shall lodge in any hotel, boarding-house or lodging- Lepers house, or bathe in any public bath, or, except with the Avritten ^^b^'fc^'coi/vev''^ permission of the Health Officer, enter any hackney carriage, jinrikisha, ancei? ef^'^ or other public vehicle. 54. No person shall purchase or receive from any inmate of any Purchases from hospital, asylum or other building provided for the reception of lepers forhildwr*'' any food, clothing, or other article. PART IV. RELATING TO ANIMALS. Prevention of the Introduction of Disease. 55. (i.) Whenever information is received that disease exists amongst prohibition oi any animals at any place without the State it shall be lawfid for the 'mportntion. Res ident to issue an order prohibiting, either absolutelj' or conditional! v, the importation into the State of any animals from such place. (ii ) Such order shall be published in the Gazette at the earliest opportunity, but shall come into operation and may be enforced im- Gazetted. mediately upon the making of the order. 56. It shall be lawful for the Resident by notification in the ports an* Gazette to prescribe ports or places by which alone cattle may be pUcas'for imported into the State, and no persons shall import cattle into the oanS'*''' Stiite in contravention of any such notification. All civttle intended