The Health Act.-1898. list of the names and addresses of his customers, and a full statement of the names and residences of the persons from whom the milk is obtained. Penalty-Ten Pounds. PART VII. Division 2. in sleeping or dwell 113. No person shall store, keep, or deposit any milk in any No milk to be stored room used for sleeping, or in any other place or mode likely to ren- ing place. der such milk unwholesome. 114. All food products intended for human consumption in the Examination of food province, imported by land or sea, shall be subject to examination products. by any inspector or analyst appointed by the Collector of Customs, and if upon inspection or analysis such food products shall be found unfit for human consumption the same shall be forfeited and destroyed or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the Treasurer may direct. Penalty-Five Pounds. 115. Local Boards may, by regulation, provide Registration and licensing of dairies and regulations. For the licensing of cowkeepers, dairymen, and vendors of milk: For the inspection of dairy farms and grazing grounds: For the sanitary conditions of cowyards, cowsheds, dairies, milk, For preserving the health and good condition of cattle kept at For prohibiting the sale of milk by other than licensed persons For prohibiting the adulteration of milk: For temporarily prohibiting, on the certificate of the officer of Division 3.-Of Premises. 116. Any Local Board may, by notice in writing, declare that any building, or any specified part thereof, is unfit for human habitation. The notice may direct that such building, or part thereof, shall not, after a time to be specified in such notice, be inhabited or Act, 1881, sec. 18. Division 3. Dwelling-houses. Unfit for habitation. See Public Health Act, 1876, sec. 14. 38 & 39 Vic., c. 55, PART VII. Division 3. Not to be let or occupied. Condemned building to be removed or amended. Over-crowding. See Public Health 38 & 39 Vic., c. 55, All houses to have 38 & 39 Vic., c. 55, 53 & 54 Vic., c. 59, sec. 21. No house to be erected on insanitary land. Drains may be made See Public Health New houses to have proper drains. See Public Health The Health Act.-1898. The notice shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the building. 117. No person after the expiration of the specified time shall inhabit or occupy, or suffer to be inhabited or occupied, such building or part thereof. Penalty-Ten Pounds. 118. A notice may be served upon the owner of such building directing him to either amend the same in some specified manner, or to take down and remove the same. Penalty-Twenty Pounds. 119. No person shall suffer any building, or part thereof, to be so over-crowded as to be, or likely to become, injurious to health. Penalty-Twenty Pounds. 120. All houses shall have in proper and convenient situations such closets and privies, with such conveniences and of such size and so constructed as shall, in the opinion of the Local Board, be necessary and sufficient. Penalty-Ten Pounds. 121. The Local Board may, by notice, prohibit the erection of any house or building on any land which, in their opinion, for sanitary reasons is unfit for human habitation until any sanitary defects existing in connection with such land have been removed to the satisfaction of the Local Board. Penalty-Ten Pounds. 122. Any Local Board, when necessary or expedient, may enter into and construct drains and other works upon any public or private land for the purpose of draining surface waters from other lands. Where the land upon which such works are constructed is private property, the Local Board shall pay full compensation to any person who shall sustain damage by reason of the exercise of the above power. 123. All houses hereafter to be erected or re-built in municipalities shall have such drains, means of ventilation, and sanitary requirements, constructed of such materials and in such manner as the Local Board may prescribe. Plans and specifications showing the proposed drains, means of ventilation, and sanitary arrangements, must be submitted to and 38 & 39 Vic., c. 55, approved by the Local Board before the occupation of any such sec. 23. house. Penalty-Twenty Pounds. 124. The The Health Act.-1898. 124. The owner or occupier of every building, whether erected before or after the coming into operation of this Act (a) Which is used as a workshop or manufactory; or PART VII. Division 3. Factories. (b) In which persons are employed or are intended to be employed Factories to have in any trade or business: proper conveniences, to be ventilated, and not to be overcrowded. (c) Which is used as a school, church, theatre, or hall, capable of ordinarily accommodating a meeting or assembly of more See Public Health than twenty persons. Act, 1873, sec. 53. 38 & 39 Vic., c. 55, sec. 38 53 & 54 Vic., c. 59, 1. Shall provide such building with suitable accom- II. Shall keep such building in a clean state and Penalty-Twenty Pounds. 125. Whenever any building, or part thereof, is let in lodgings Lodging-houses. or for the purpose of board and lodging, the same shall be deemed Definition. to be a lodging-house. inmates. 126. The Local Board may fix the number of persons who may Limit of number of occupy any lodging-house, and may, by regulation, provide for the registration and special inspection thereof. PART VIII. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. PART VIII. Notification. Board. 127. Where any inmate of any building or part of a building Infectious disease to is, or is supposed to be, suffering from any infectious disease, unless be reported to Local such building is a public or licensed hospital into which persons suffering from infectious diseases are received 1. The head of the family: II. On his default, the nearest relative of such inmate present in the building or being in attendance on such inmate: III. On default by such relative, every person in charge or in attendance on such inmate; or iv. On default by any such persons, the occupier or owner of the building: And in any case v. Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit PART. VIII. Medical practitioner to notify cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. Fee to medical practitioner. Medical practitioner protected. Disinfection. Disinfection of buildings and articles. See Public Health Act, 1876, secs. 5 and 18. 38 & 39 Vic., c. 55, secs. 120 and 121. 53 & 54 Vic., c. 34, sec. 6. Butter and cheese factories may be closed. The Health Act.-1898. shall, so soon as he becomes aware that such inmate is suffering from any infectious disease, report the same to the Local Board, who shall immediately report the same to the Central Board. Penalty-Five Pounds. Provided that any person not being a person required to make a report in the first instance, but only in case of default by some other person, shall not be liable to any penalty if he prove that he had reasonable cause to suppose that the report had been duly made. The owner or occupier of every building used as a hospital shall, as soon as he or his manager or superintendent becomes aware that an inmate is suffering from any infectious disease, report the same to the Local Board. 128. Every medical practitioner attending on or consulted by any person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis shall, so soon as the fact becomes known to him, report the same to the Local Board of the district in which the person resides: Provided such notification shall not be necessary if the case has been previously reported to the same Local Board. Penalty-Five Pounds. 129. The Local Board shall pay to every such medical practitioner a fee of Two Shillings and Six Pence for one report for each person suffering from any infectious disease. 130. No medical practitioner shall be liable to any proceedings for any mis-statement made in good faith in attempted notification of any infectious disease: Provided he promptly notifies to the Local Board any change in his diagnosis. 131. If the officer of health or any legally qualified medical practitioner shall certify in writing to the Local Board that the cleansing or disinfection of any building or part thereof, or any bedding, clothes, or other articles whatever, would tend to prevent the spread of tuberculosis or any infectious disease, the Local Board may order and supervise the use of disinfectants, and take such other sanitary precautions as it may deem necessary to cleanse or disinfect such building or part thereof, and articles, and for that purpose may remove any such articles. Any expenses incurred by the Local Board may be recovered from the owner or occupier of such building or part thereof, or the Local Board may itself, if it see fit, defray such expenses or any part thereof. 132. If at any time any legally qualified medical practitioner shall certify to the Local Board that any person suffering from any infectious disease or from pulmonary tuberculosis is residing in a building or part of a building used for the storage of milk, or for the The Health Act.-1898. the storage or manufacture of butter, cheese, or other article of human food, and that there is reason to believe that such milk, butter, cheese, or other article of human food may be contaminated by such disease, the Local Board may, with the sanction of the Central Board, order the owner or person in charge of such building to close the same until the officer of health shall certify that such person has been removed from such building, and that all necessary precautions have been taken to prevent such contamination. Any person neglecting to comply with such order shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. Penalty-Twenty Pounds. 133. Any Local Board may 1. Provide or combine with other Local Boards to provide proper places, apparatus, and attendance for disinfecting purposes: 11. Disinfect any articles: III. Make arrangements for disinfection with any hospital or with any Local Board possessing disinfecting apparatus: IV. Make arrangements with any laboratory for scientific exami nation. 134. No person knowing himself to be suffering from any Exposure of infected infectious disease, or, having so suffered, not being sufficiently persons. recovered to be free of all risk of infecting others, shall— See Public Health 1. Expose himself in any public place without taking reasonable 38 & 39 Vic., c. 55 precautions against spreading such disease: II. Enter any place of common resort: III. Enter any ship, vessel, railway carriage, or public conveyance without previously notifying to the master, conductor, or person in charge the fact of such disease. Penalty-Five Pounds. sec. 126. veyances. 135. Any such person entering a public conveyance in breach of Expenses of sub-section III. of section 134 shall, in addition to such penalty, be disinfection of conliable to pay to the owner all loss and expense incurred in respect of the disinfection of such conveyance. to give notice to Local 136. Every owner or person in charge of any public conveyance Owner of conveyance having conveyed any person suffering or having so suffered not being sufficiently recovered from any infectious disease shall, immediately after he becomes aware of such fact, give notice to the Local Board of the district wherein he resides. Penalty-Five Pounds. See Public Health 38 & 39 Vic., c. 55, 53 & 54 Vic., c. 34, sec. 11. 137. The Local Board may disinfect such conveyance, and may Disinfection of |