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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$Infectlun in scJiool. Where any scholar, in a school, is suffering from an infected infectious disease, the local authority may require the School. ■ principal of the school (which word where there is Libraries, no one principal means the head of any particular <lepartment of the school (s. 58 (4) ) to furnish them With a complete list of the names and addresses of the scholars (except boarders) in the school or any specified department of the school (s. 58 (4) ), to furnish them a reasonable time to be fixed by the local authority, who must pay for it (s. 58 (2)) at the rate of sixpence for each twenty-five names. Max. Pen.\lty (for Non-Compliance), 40s. (for each ofl'ence). ((/) LiBR.\i;iES (s. 59). (See p. 160 pu-<i.) Public and Circulating Libraries are another source ^ of infection, often not sufficiently recognised. ihe Iboughtless borrowing of a book for a fever patient may work untold evil. S. 59 is intended to provide against the danger. The section nliilc^ 'ifij hoaks hilonynuj to (1) a j)i>hhc 11 bra r I/, (2) a rircul/ituif/ lihranj. (1) A person knowing that he is suffering from an infectious disease must not ('•;) Take out any such book (sub-sec. 1). (Ij) Use any such book (sub-sec. 1). ('•) Cause any such book to be taken out for his use (sulj-sec. 1). (2) Again, ikj person must ]3ermit any such book, under his control, to be used by anyone whom he knows to be sufforiug from an infectious disease (sub-scc. 2). (3) If a person know any such book has been exposed to infection, he must not return it or, if it is under his control, permit it to be returned, but must give notice of its infected condilion to the local autho- iily (sub-sec. 'i). Thereupon (he local authority must$