Fine on first and subse how recoverable; one-half to informer. Proviso. CHAPTER 204. An act to prevent Minors frequenting Billiard Rooms. and other Places. H ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The Keeper of a licensed billiard, pool or bagatelle room, quent offence; who directly or indirectly keeps the same for hire or gain, admitting a minor under the age of sixteen years thereto, or allowing him to remain therein, without the consent of his parent or guardian, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding $10, for the first, and not exceeding $20 for each subsequent offence, to be imposed by any Justice of the Peace, one-half of which fine shall go to the informer; provided always that this Act shall not apply to a minor who is a member of the family of the keeper or his servant. or who does not go to the billiard, pool or bagetelle room for the purpose of loitering, or to play billiards, pool or bagetelle therein; nor shall this Act apply to any case where the keeper, in the opinion of the Justice of the Peace, had reasonable cause to believe that such consent had been given by the parent or guardian, or that such minor was not under the age of sixteen. 49 V. c. 41, s. 1. SHORT TITLE, s. 1. INTERPRETATION, s. 2. PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH: Salaries and allowances, ss. 4, 5, 7. Limitation as to use of land, s. 28. DEFAULT OF LOCAL AUTHORITY, s. 29. PLANS OF WATER SUPPLY AND SEWER AGE TO BE SUBMITTED TO PRO VINCIAL BOARD, s. 30. Appointment, ss. 31, 32, 34, 35. SUSPENSION OF ELECTIONS, s. 38. Inspection of slaughter-houses, ss. Regulation of ice supplies, s. 55. Inspection of health districts, s. 56. Powers of medical health officer, s. 57. Information and investigation, respecting, ss. 58, 59. Local board to give notice requiring abatement of nuisances, s. 60. Power where nuisance due to cause outside of district, s. 61. Costs and expenses, s. 62. Restriction on establishment of offensive trades, s. 63. Provision where abatement of nuisance involves considerations of difficulty, s. 64. Inspection of dairies, creameries Power to examine and cleanse When application to abatenuisance must be made to High Court, s. 105. EXAMINATION OF HOUSE, ETC., BY MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS, S. 68. REMOVAL BY HEALTH OFFICERS OF INHABITANTS OF A HOUSE, s. 69. PROVISIONS AGAINST INFECTION, S8. 72-94. HOSPITALS, Ss. 95-98. INSPECTION OF FOOD, ss. 99, 100. ENFORCING OBEDIENCE TO ORDERS, ss. 101, 102. APPEAL TO COUNTY JUDGE, s. 103. ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: Provincial Salaries and allowance of members of the board. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Public Health Act," 47 V. c. 38, s. 1. 2. Where the following words occur in this Act, or the schedules thereto, they shall be construed in the manner hereinafter mentioned, unless a contrary intention appears: 1. "Owner" means, the person for the time being receiving the rent of the lands or premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee of any other person, or who would so receive the same if such lands and premises were let; 2. "Health District" or "District" means any local municipality, or union of local municipalities, under the jurisdiction of a Local or District Board of Health, and Local Board" or "Board" shall include a District Board; 3. "House" includes schools, factories and other buildings, huts and tents used for human habitation or work, whether such use is permanent or temporary, and whether the same are stationary or movable; 4. "Street" shall include every highway, road, square, row, lane, mews, court, alley and passage, whether a thoroughfare or not. 47 V. c. 38, s. 2. PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH. Organization-Powers and Duties. 3. The provincial board of health of Ontario at present existing, is hereby continued and shall consist of not more than seven members one of whom may be the secretary of the board; the members thereof shall be appointed by the LieutenantGovernor in Council from time to time for a period of three years, and any retiring member shall be eligible for re-appointment; at least four members of the board shall be duly registered medical practitioners. 45 V. c. 29, s. 1. 4. The chairman of the board shall be appointed by the chairman and Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and shall be paid an annual salary not exceeding the sum of $400 per annuin; other members of the board, except the secretary, shall be paid such per diem allowance while attending meetings of the board, or any committee thereof, as may be voted by the Legislature and approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, together with actual travelling and other necessary expenses while employed on the business of the board. 50 V. c. 34, s. 7. Appointment of secretary. 5. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint a competent and suitable person as secretary of the board, who shall hold office during pleasure, and who may be paid an annual salary not exceeding $1,750 per annum, and who shall be the chief health officer of the Province. 45 V. c. 29, s. 7; 50 V. c. 34, s. 8. secretary. 6. The secretary shall keep his office at Toronto, and perform Duties of the duties prescribed by this Act or required by the board; he shall keep a record of the transactions of the board and shall, so far as practicable, communicate with other provincial or state boards of health, and with the local boards of health, and health officers within the Province, and with municipal councils and other public bodies, for the purpose of acquiring or disseminating information concerning the public health; and he shall also use such means as are practicable to induce municipal councils to appoint health officers or local boards of health within their municipality: he shall also assist in preparing the annual report of the registrar-general in relation to the vital statistics of the Province, and shall perform such other duties and functions relating to vital statistics and otherwise as may be assigned to him by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 45 V. c. 29, s. 8. salaries and expenses. 7. The expenses of the said provincial board and the Payment of salaries of the chairman and secretary shall be paid out of such moneys as may, from time to time, be appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose. 45 V. c. 29, s. 21; 47 V. c. 38, s. 8. board. 8. The board shall meet quarterly at Toronto, and at such Meetings of other places and times as may be fixed under a resolution of the board. Three members shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, and they shall have power to make and adopt rules and by-laws regulating the transaction of its business, and may provide therein for the appointment of committees, to whom they may delegate authority and power for the work committed to them. 45 V. c. 29, s. 5; 47 V. c. 38, s. 10. 9. The provincial board of health shall take cognizance of Duties of the interests of health and life among the people of the Pro- board. vince; they shall especially study the vital statistics of the Province, and shall endeavour to make an intelligent and profitable use of the collected records of deaths and of sickness among the people; they shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting causes of disease, and especially of epidemics; the causes of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, habits, and other circumstances upon the health of the people; they shall make such suggestions as to the prevention and introduction of contagious and infectious diseases, as they shall deem most effective and proper, and as will prevent and limit as far as possible the rise and spread of disease; they shall enquire into the measures which are being taken by local boards for the limitation of any existing Information to be published. dangerous, contagious or infectious disease, through powers conferred upon said local boards by any Public Health Act, and should it appear that no efficient measures are being taken and that the said powers are not being enforced, it shall be competent for the provincial board, in the interests of the public health, to require the local board to exercise and enforce any of the said powers which, in the opinion of the provincial board, the urgency of the case demands; and in any such case where the local board, after request by the provincial board, neglect or refuse to exercise their powers, the provincial board may, with the approval of the Minister of the department under which the board is for the time being acting, exercise and enforce at the expense of the municipality any of the powers of local boards which under the circumstances they may consider necessary, and they shall, when required or when they deem it best, advise officers of the Government and local boards of health in regard to the public health, and as to the means to be adopted to secure the same, and as to location, drainage, water supply, disposal of excreta, heating and ventilation of any public institution or building. 45 V. c. 29, s. 3 ; 50 V. c. 34, s. 6. 10. The board shall from time to time, and especially during the prevalence in any part of the Province of epidemic, endemic or contagious disease, make public distribution of such sanitary literature, and of special practical information relating to the prevention and spread of contagious and infectious diseases through the medium of the public press, and by circular to local boards of health and health officers, municipal councils, and in and through the public schools and otherwise as shall be deemed by them in the interest of the public health. 45 V. c. 29, s. 4. Investigations 11. With the concurrence of that member of the Executive as to causes of Council to whose department the provincial board of health other disease. is for the time being assigned by the Lieutenant-Governor in contagious or Rev. Stat. c. 17. Council, the board may send its secretary, or any member or members of the board, to any part of the Province when deemed necessary to investigate the cause or causes of any contagious or other disease or mortality; and at such investigation evidence may be taken on oath or otherwise as the said secretary, member or members may deem expedient; and in such case the secretary, or any member of the board present at the investigation, may administer the oath; and the said investigating committee shall have power, by warrant under the hand and seal of any one of its members, to call upon any person to give evidence regarding any matter in question in the investigation; and the investigating committee shall have all the powers which may be conferred upon commissioners under The Act respecting Inquiries concerning Public Matters. 47 V. c. 38, s. 11. |