The public health acts and other sanitary laws & regulations. : Specially prepared for the Diploma of public health / by Martin Elliott and Gilbert Elliott.

  • Elliott, Martin J.
Date:
1906
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    in the opinion of the L. A., or of their M. 0. H., effec- tually to cleanse and disinfect as required, t]w same may without any such notice beinrj given, but toith the consent of ■such owner or occupier, be cleansed and disinfected by the officers of and at the cost of the L. A. No person without the mnction in writing of the M. 0. H. or of a registered medical practitioner, shall retain unburied[ elsewhere than in a public mortuary, or in a room not used at the time as a dwelling-place, sleeping-place, or work-room for more than/orty-eir/ht hours the body of any person who has died of any infectious disease. If any M. 0. H. or any other registered medical prac- titioner certifies that in his opinion it is desu-able to prevent the risk of communicating any infectious disease or spreading infection, in such cases the bodies of persons dying of infectious diseases in a hospital or any place of temporary accommodation for the sick must be removed only for the purpose of burial. PART 9. The Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. This most important Act repeals and consolidates with amendments all other Acts bearing on the subject. It is divided into three parts, thus:— Part 1. Unhealthy areas. Part 2. Unhealthy dwelling-houses. Part 3. Working-class lodging-houses, in addition to four other parts with which the medical student need not concern himself.