Notice of disease to be affixed to provided for the purpose. No. 27 of 1897, s. 3; No. 11 of 1898, ss. 4, 5, 6. 4. Whenever the occupant of any house has reason to believe that such house is infected he shall forthwith affix and infected house shall during the whole period of such infection keep affixed to the outside of every outer door of such house a written notice of a size not less than four inches by six inches bearing the name of the disease with which such house is infected. Notice to be posted by medical practitioner Medical practitioner to inspect premises (2) Any person refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding $10 and costs of prosecution. No. 27 of 1897, s. 4; No. 11 of 1898, s. 7. has 5. Whenever any medical practitioner knows or good reason to believe that any person is ill with any contagious or infectious disease he shall, except when he has to report to a health officer, within twenty-four hours thereafter cause a notice to be posted up on the house of which such person is an inmate and in a conspicuous place at or near the school house or post office nearest to the house of which such person is an inmate or at or near the school house or post office nearest to the cffice of such medical practitioner which notice shall state the name of the disease and of the occupant of the house and may be in the form A in schedule 1 to this Ordinance. No. 27 of 1897, s. 5. 6. Any medical practitioner attending any person ill of typhoid fever not within the limits of any city or town shall inspect the premises where such person resides and if he should person resides have reason to believe that the water supply thereof has be where infected Penalty Penalty for neglecting to obey order Appointment of sanitary come contaminated by reason of any cesspool or privy pit being adjacent thereto he shall forthwith notify the owner or occupant of such premises to cause immediate removal of the contents thereof and the subsequent disinfection and filling up with earth of such cesspool or privy pit. (2) Any medical practitioner refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding $10 and costs of prosecution. (3) Any person refusing or neglecting to obey any order or notice given pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty rot exceeding $10 and costs. No. 27 of 1897, s. 10. SANITARY INSPECTORS. HEALTH OFFICERS. QUARANTINE. 7. The minister may at any time appoint a sanitary ininspector spector to inspect and report on the sanitary condition of any premises not within the limits of any city or town. (2) It shall be the duty of such inspector subject to the instructions of the minister to prosecute any person whom he may have reason to believe guilty of an offence under any provision of this Ordinance. No. 27 of 1897, s. 11. of quarantine of health 8. The minister may declare any area or district in quaran- Proclamation tine because of the existence therein of any epidemic of con- district tagious or infectious disease and may appoint any medical practitioner as health officer and may appoint a sanitary Appointment inspector or sanitary inspectors for such district during the officer continuance of such quarantine and may subject to the provisions of this Ordinance prescribe their powers, duties and remuneration. No. 27 of 1897, s. 12: No. 11 of 1898, s. 9. where public 9. Any health officer or sanitary inspector may enter into Power to act and upon any premises in the district for which he is appointed health and examine such premises; and if upon such examination he endangered finds that the premises are in a filthy or unclean state or that any matter or thing is there which in his opinion may endanger the public health he may order the proprietor or occupant of the premises to cleanse and remove forthwith what is so found there; and in case the proprietor or occupant of the premises neglect or refuse to obey his instructions such health officer or sanitary inspector may call to his assistance any persons he may think fit and may enter on the premises and cleanse the same and remove therefrom and destroy what in his opinion it is necessary to remove or destroy for the preservation of the public health. be inade (2) Any action taken by a health officer or sanitary inspector Reports to under the next preceding subsection shall be forthwith reported fully to the minister. for neglect to (3) In the case of any prosecution for neglect or refusal to Prosecution obey any order given by a health officer under the provisions obey orders of the first subsection to this section the justice who tries the case shall on conviction, in addition to any penalty which he my impose upon any such proprietor or occupant for such neglect or refusal order that the whole of the cost of doing, re moving or destroying whatever is done, removed or destroyed in the intercst of the public safety shall be paid by the person so convicted. No. 27 of 1897, s. 14. 10. Where any quarantine district is established a health Powers of officer or sanitary inspector shall have power (a) To prevent the departure or removal of persons or conveyances from or into any such locality; (b) To detain persons or conveyances who or which have been exposed to infection or contagion for inspection: and may order the cleansing, purifying and disinfecting thereof and anything contained therein at the expense of the owner, occupier or the person having the care and control thereof and may order the detention for this purpose of any steam boat, railway carriage or car and any public conveyance and anything contained therein and any person travelling thereby 12 health officer in quarantine district City or town to appoint as long as may he necessary to ensure that all danger of infection is past. No. 27 of 1897, s 15. 11. Every city or town shall appoint a health officer at the health officer first meeting of its council in each year and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance may prescribe his powers, duties and remuneration and the clerk of such council shall file a notice of such appointment with the minister within fourteen days thereafter and if such notice be not filed the minister may appoint any resident medical practitioner of such city or town as health officer for the year then current and fix is remuneration which shall be recoverable as a debt by the health officer so appointed from the city or town. No. 27 of 1897, s. 20. Report to be made Removal of persons from certain premises Quarantine periods Disinfection Proviso Precautions as to burial Monthly report to minister 12. Every health officer of a city or town shall before the third day of every month report to the minister in the form B in schedule to this Ordinance the number of cases of contagious or infectious disease and of typhoid fever arising within the limits of such city or town during the preceding month. No. 27 of 1897, s. 21. 13. Whenever a disease of a malignant and fatal character is discovered to exist in any house and such house is situate in an unhealthy or crowded place or is in a filthy or neglected state or is inhabited by too many persons the health officer having jurisdiction in the place in which it is situate may compel the inhabitants of such house to remove therefrom aud may place them in some more healthful situation under good shelter until measures can be taken for the immediate cleansing, ventilation, purification or disinfection of such house. No 27 of 1897, s. 22. 14. The provisions respecting periods of quarantine and the formulæ for disinfection in schedule 2 to this Ordinance shall be deemed mandatory except when varied by the written order of a health officer or in the absence of a health officer of the medical practitioner in attendance: Provided that the minimum period of quarantine mentioned therein shall not be reduced. No. 27 of 1897, s. 24. MODE OF BURIAL IN CERTAIN CASES. 15. The body of any person who has died of scarlet fever, diphtheria, small pox or Asiatic cholera shall be buried privately under such precautions as to disinfection as are prescribed in schedule 2 hereto. No. 27 of 1897, s. 23. REPORTS OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. 16. Every medical practitioner shall on or before the third day of each month cause a report to be mailed or delivered to the minister showing the number of cases of contagious or infectious diseases and of typhoid fever not within the limits of any city or town which he has been called to attend during the month last past and such reports shall be in the form B in schedule 1 to this Ordinance: Provided that any cases arising within the limits of any city Proviso or town shall be reported to the health officer of such city or town. No. 27 of 1897, s. 6. EXPENDITURE UNDER ORDINANCE. fees, etc. 17. The Lieutenant Governor may order the payment Payment of of any fee, allowance or other remuneration for services rendered or supplies furnished under the provisions of this Ordinance out of the general revenue fund. No. 27 of 1897, s. 26. urgent 18. Where the necessity and urgency for so doing is estab- Payment for lished to the satisfaction of the minister by reason of the necessary and inability of any person or the friends of any person who may expenditure be suffering from any infectious or contagious disease to provide for such person the medical aid, accommodation and such other services or articles necessary to mitigate or prevent the spread of any such disease the minister may in his discretion authorise the health officer or any other person to provide such medical aid, accommodation or other service or article as may be required for such person and the cost of the same may be defrayed by the Lieutenant Governor out of the general revenue fund. No. 27 of 1897, s. 16; No. 11 of 1898, s. 10. DISEASE OUTSIDE THE TERRITORIES. districts 19. When any part of the Territories becomes exposed Ingress from to any contagious, infectious or epidemic disease then existing affected may in any place outside the Territories the Lieutenant Governor in be proscribed Council may declare that such disease exists in such place as aforesaid and proscribe all ingress to the Territories therefrom for a period to be named in such order. No. 27 of 1897, s. 13. ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS. Governor in 20. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regula- Lieutenant tions respecting compulsory vaccination and for the prevention Council of contagious and infectious diseases not inconsistent with may make regulations any provisions of this Ordinance. No. 27 of 1897, s. 25. FORMS. supplied 21. It shall be the duty of the minister to supply all medi- Forms to be cal practitioners with the forms provided for in this Ordinance. No. 27 of 1897, s. 7. ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCE. 22. For the effectual enforcement of the provisions of this Constables Ordinance it shall be lawful for any health officer to call in the aid of any policeman or constable and also to appoint quaran Arrest of offenders Penalty for destroying tine constables who shall possess the powers ordinarily held by constables. No. 27 of 1897, s. 17; No. 11 of 1898, s. 11. 23. Upon the direction of any health officer or sanitary inspector or on the information of any person or upon view of any disobedience or violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance any peace officer or quarantine constable may arrest the offender by the authority of this Ordinance and without further warrant cause his person and clothing to be disinfected if necessary and convey him before a justice of the peace to be dealt with according to law. No. 27 of 1897, s. 18; No. 11 of 1898, s. 12. PENAL CLAUSES. 24. Any person defacing, destroying or removing any notice or removing provided for by this Ordinance before the disinfection herein provided for has been done shall be guilty of an offence ad liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding $10 and costs. No. 27 of 1897, s. 9; No. 11 of 1898, S. 8. Penalty for neglect of duty by medical practitioner Penalty for neglect to obey orders of health officer, etc. Penalty for assaulting, etc., health officer 25. Any medical practitioner who refuses or neglects to comply with any of the provisions of sections 5 and 16 of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine of $10 and costs of prosecution. No. 27 of 1897, s. 8. 26. Any person who neglects or refuses to obey any order given to him by a health officer, medical practitioner or sanitary inspector in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction thereof b liable to a penalty not exceeding $100 with costs of prosecution and upon failure of payment thereof forthwith after conviction be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months. No. 26 of 1897, s. 27. 27. Whoever assaults, obstructs, molests or hinders any health officer, constable or other person in the execution of any duty or exercise of any power conferred upon him by this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding $25. No. 27 of 1897, s. 19. SCHEDULE 1. FORM A. The house of (here state name of occupant of the house) on ་ , Township west |