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
Licence: In copyright
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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![Compulsory Disinfection, Procedure. If the PERSON IN CHARGE of the premises, &c. (on whom a notice would otherwise have to be served (see below) ) CONSENTS, the power may forthwith be exercised and disinfection or destruction proceeded with, without more ado (s. 66 (2)'). Otherwise the procedure, according to which this power is to be (compulsorily) exercised, is slightly complicated. Having obtained the medical certificate, the first step is to serve a notice on (a) the ]}erson in occwpation or having the charge, management or control of the house (or part of a house (s. 66 (1) (5), or (b) where the luhole house is a ludging-huuse vholly let to lodgers or a teneiueiit-house, on the person receiving the rent payable by the tenants or lodgers either on his own account or as agent (s. 66 (1) (5) ), or (c) where the house or jiart ?s unoccupied, on the owner of the house. The NOTICE must (a) fix a time for the disinfection, destruction, &c. (s. 66 (1)). . . (h) Inform the person on whom it is served tnat unless he undertakes within twenty-four hours to carry out the disinfection, destruction, &c., to the satisfaction of the medical officer of the local authority or some other legally qualified medical practitioner, the local authority will carry- it out themselves. Then unless the person on whom the notice is served (1) undertakes, within twenty-four hours to comply with it, and (2) complies with it within the time fixed in it, the local authority may carry out the disinfection, destruction, &c., themselves (s. 66 (2)). The disinfection, destruction, &c., is whether by con- sent or not to be carried out by, and at the cost of, the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21503321_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
