Reports to be made Prosecution for neglect to obey orders Removal of persons from necessary to remove or destroy for the preservation of the public health. (2) Any action taken by a health officer or sanitary inspector under the next preceding subsection shall be forthwith reported fully to the minister. (3) Any proprietor or occupant neglecting or refusing to obey any order given by any health officer or sanitary inspector under the first subsection to this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $10 and costs of prosecution. (4) In the case of any prosecution for neglect or refusal to obey any order given by a health officer or sanitary inspector under the provisions of the first subsection to this section the justice of the peace who tries the case shall on conviction in addition to any penalty which he may impose upon any such proprietor or occupant for such neglect or refusal order that the whole of the cost of doing, removing or destroying whatever is done, removed or destroyed in the interest of the public safety shall be paid by the person so convicted to the health officer or sanitary inspector. 1902. c. 4, s. 8. 9. Whenever a disease of a malignant and fatal character certain premises is discovered in any house and such house is situate in an unhealthy or crowded place or is in a filthy or neglected state o 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 and 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. 1902, c. 4, s. 9. Overseer to be sanitary inspector quarantine district [9a. The overseer of every village shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be a sanitary inspector and shall have all the powers and duties of a sanitary inspector under the said last mentioned Ordinance within the village.] 1903, 2nd session, c. 23, s. 4. QUARANTINE DISTRICTS. Proclamation of 10. The minister may declare any area or district in quarantine because of the existence therein of any epidemic of contagious or infectious disease. 1902, c. 4, s. 10. Powers of health officers in quarantine district 11. Where any quarantine district is established a health officer or sanitary inspector shall have power (a) To prevent the departure or removal of persons or disinfecting thereof and anything contained therein CITIES AND TOWNS. to appoint 12. Every city or town shall appoint a health officer who City or town shall be a medical practitioner at the first meeting of its health officer 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 his remuneration which shall be recoverable as a debt due to the health officer so appointed from the city or town. 1902, c. 4, s. 12. be made 13. Every health officer of a city or town shall before the Report to third day of every month in each year report to the minister in such form as may be prescribed the number of cases of contagious or infectious disease, typhoid fever and tuberculosis occurring within the limits of such city or town during the then next preceding month. 1902, c. 4, s. 13. TUBERCULOSIS. cases of 14. Every medical practitioner shall on or before the third Report of day of January, April, July and October in each year report tuberculosis to the minister in the form prescribed the number of cases of tuberculosis which he has been called upon to attend during the quarter last past. (2) It shall be the duty of every practitioner when called upon to attend a case of tuberculosis to furnish the patient with a copy of the directions issued by the department for the guidance of phthisical patients. (3) It shall be the duty of such practitioner to furnish the occupant or proprietor of the said house with a copy of the directions issued by the department for the proper disinfection of premises that have been occupied by such cases and when a medical practitioner is attending a patient subject to tuberculosis and said patient dies or vacates the room he has been occupying such medical practitioner shall give instructions to the occupant of the house for the proper disin fection of the premises and the occupant shall follow such instructions. 1902, c. 4, s. 14. MODE OF BURIAL IN CERTAIN CASES. Precautions as 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. 1902, c. 4, s. 15. REPORTS OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. Quarterly Proviso Payment of 16. Every medical practitioner shall on or before the first day of January, April, July and October in each year 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 quarter last past and such reports shall be in the form prescribed: Provided that any cases occurring within the limits of any city or town shall be reported by such medical practitioner forthwith to the health officer of such city or town. 1902, c. 4, s. 16. EXPENDITURE UNDER ORDINANCE. Minister 17. The (Lieutenant Governor) may order the payment of any fee, allowance, or other remuneration for services rend C4-2-1966ered or supplies furnished under the provisions of this Ordi Payment for expenditure imended nance out of the general revenue fund. 1902, c. 4, s. 17. 18. Where the necessity and urgency for so doing is established to the satisfaction of the minister by reason of the inability of any person or the friends of any person who may be suffering from an infectious or contagious disease to provide 1416-04-13 for such person the medical aid, accommodation and such 1966 other services or articles necessary to mitigate or prevent the spread of any such disease, the minister may in his discretion authorize 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. 1902. c. 4, s. 18. DISEASE OUTSIDE THE TERRITORIES. Ingress from affected may 19. When any part of the Territories becomes exposed to any contagious, infectious, or epidemic disease then existing in any place outside the Territories, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may declare that such disease exists in such place as aforesaid and prohibit all ingress to the Territories therefrom for a period to be named in such order. 1902, c. 4, s. 19. ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS. Governor in make regula 20. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regula- Lieutenant tions respecting compulsory vaccination and for the prevention Council may of contagious and infectious diseases and tuberculosis not in- tion consistent with any provisions of this Ordinance. 1902, c. 4, s. 20. FORMS. supplied 21. It shall be the duty of the minister to prescribe such Forms to be forms and regulations as may be necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance. 1902, c. 4, s. 21. 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 quarantine constables who shall possess the powers ordinarily held by constables. 1902, c. 4, s. 22. offenders 23. Upon the direction of any health officer or sanitary in- Arrest of spector 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. 1902, c. 4, s. 23. PENAL CLAUSES. destroying or notices 24. Any person defacing, destroying, or removing any Penalty for notice provided for by this Ordinance before the disinfection removing herein provided for has been done shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding $25 and costs of prosecution. 1902, c. 4, s. 24. neglect to of health 25. Any person who neglects or refuses to obey any order Penalty for given to him by a health officer, medical practitioner or sani- obey orders tary inspector in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance officer, etc. shall be guilty of an offence and on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding $100 and costs of prosecution. 1902, c. 4, s. 25. assaulting, etc. 26. Whoever assaults, obstructs, molests or hinders any Penalty for health officer, constable or other person in the execution of any health officer duty or exercise of any power conferred upon him by this Penalty for offences not otherwise provided for Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding $50 and costs of prosecution. 1902, c. 4, s. 26. to 27. Any person violating or neglecting or refusing observe any of the provisions of this Ordinance for which violation or neglect or refusal no penalty is herein provided shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50 and costs of prosecution. 1902, c. 4, s. 27. or a shorter period if an parts as free from bacilli Dating from the development of the case. Small pox, 10 days after all scabs and ulcerated sores have disappeared; Chicken pox, 5 days after all scabs and scales have dis- 2. Solutions for disinfecting discharges in the sick room: (b) Carbolic acid, 5 ounces; water, 1 gallon, mix, or (c) Quick lime (fresh), 2 lbs.; water, 1 gallon, mix, or (d) Mercuric chloride, 2 drachms; water, 1 gallon. 3. Disinfection of mails, 2 ounces of formalin in mail bag, tightly closed. 4. Disinfection of clothing and bedding: (a) Underclothing and bed linen soiled by discharge; (1) Destruction by fire; or (2) Immersion for 24 hours in solution of mercuricchloride, 1 drachm to the gallon of water; or |