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.

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$or similar structure, or boat lying in a canal or other !ois water, used for human habitation (s. 61 (3) ). Patients. The removal of persons actually suffering from mfec- tious disease to hospital will be immediately referred to (s. 65). . . ^ . I The function of the local authority m disinfecting public vehicles (s. 64 (2)) has already been referred toj under public vehicles. II. Curative (ss. 60, 65, 67). Removal of Infectious Patients to Hospital. Section 65 extends the operation of the Public Health Act (s. 141), which only applied to certain particular cases of danger, e.g., having an infectious disease in a common lodging-house, to all cases of persons suffering from any dangerous infectious disease and being in or upon anij house or premises where such persons cannot he effectually isolated so as to prevent the spread of the disease. All such persons may, therefore, under the present Act, be removed to a suitable hospital, withm, or within a convenient distance of, the district, if such exist. But, as under the Public Health Act, three preliminary requirements must be fulfilled: — (a) The consent of the hospital authorities obtained. (See p. 167.) {h) A certificate given by a legally qualified medical practitioner. (c) The order of a justice obtained.* Provision of Hospital Accommodation for Infectious Patients. (See 'p. 161.) The Public Health Act (s. 155) contains provisions for providing hospital accommodation for infectious ]iatients. Unless the patient is a pauper the cost of • N.B.—This aiiiicars to be tlic most reasonable construction.$