The public health acts amendment act, 1907 : with explanation, full commentary upon the sections, and summary of recent public health decisions / by Arthur E. Clery and J. McWalter.

Clery, Arthur Edward, 1879-1932.

Date:: 1908

Credit: The public health acts amendment act, 1907 : with explanation, full commentary upon the sections, and summary of recent public health decisions / by Arthur E. Clery and J. McWalter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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$II. IN RELATION TO CERTAIN COMMON infectious SOURCES OF INFECTION, ss, 53, 54 Disease, {Dairiffi) : 55 (Lnuiir/rirs) ; 57, 58 (6'c/(oo/.s) ; Restrictions 59 {Lihraries) ; 62, 63, 64 {I'ublic Vehirh^)\ Sufferer. 68 ^Wakti). jand B. DIRECT ACTION BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITY. I. PREVENTATIVE (ss. 56, 61, 64 (2), 66). II. CURATIVE (60, 65, 67). Following this method of division, then, we come to— A. CONTROL OF CONDUCT. I. In General (ss. 52, 62). (Amendment of the Public Health Act.) The Act first proceeds to deal with that most serious source of danger, the public exposxire of persons suffering from au infectious disease. The Public Health Act already inflicted a penalty of £5 (1) on ■mil person siiffeniu/ from a dangerous infectious disorder, who exposed himself in any street, public place, shop, inn, or public conveyance without proper precautions against spreading the infection, and (2) on iiu/onc in r/i(ir(/(' of such a sufferer who exposed him in :his way. (See p. 164 j)osf.) The present Act extends the prohibition in two ways. (1) It extends the prohibition against exposing one- self in public without proper precautions, by a prohibi- :ion against engaging in any occupation or carrying m any trade or business, unless it can be done without I ijsk of s]3reading the infectious disease. Anyone who snowing that he is suffering from an infectious disea.se, •ontravenes this provision incurs a pen.'\lty of 40s. (s. 52).$