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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

tions against spreading the said disorder, in any street,
public place, shop, inn, or public conveyance, or enters
any public conveyance without previously notifying to
the owner, conductor, or driver thereof that he is so
suffering; or
(2.) Being in charge of any person so suffering, so exposes
such sufferer; or
(3.) Gives, lends, sells, or transmits or exposes, without
previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or
other things which have been exposed to infection
from any such disorder,
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds; and a
person who, while suffering from any such disorder, enters
any public conveyance without previously notifying to the
owner or driver that he is so suffering, shall in addition be
ordered by the Court to pay such owner and driver the
amount of any loss and expense they may incur in carrying
into effect the provisions of this Act with respect to disinfection of the conveyance:

But no proceedings under this section shall be taken
against persons transmitting with proper precautions
any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things for the
purpose of having the same disinfected.

32. Every owner or driver of a public conveyance shall
    immediately provide for the disinfection of such conveyance
    after it has to his knowledge conveyed any person suffering
    from a dangerous infectious disorder.

If he fails to do so, he shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds; but no such owner or driver
shall be required to convey any person so suffering
until he has been paid a sum sufficient to cover any
loss or expense incurred by him in carrying into effect
the provisions of this section.

33. Any person who knowingly lets for hire any house,
    room, or part of a house in which any person has been suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder, without having
    such house, room, or part of a house, and all articles therein
    liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of a
    legally-qualified medical practitioner, as testified by a certificate signed by him, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

For the purposes of this section, the keeper of an inn
shall be deemed to let for hire part of a house to any
person admitted as a guest into such inn.

34. Any person letting for hire, or showing for the purpose
    of letting for hire, any house or part of a house, who, on
    being questioned by any person negotiating for the hire of
    such house or part of a house as to the fact of there being,
    or within six weeks previously having been, therein any person suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder, knowingly makes a false answer to such question, shall be liable,
    at the discretion of the Court, to a penalty not exceeding
    twenty pounds, or to imprisonment, with or without hard
    labour, for a period not exceeding one month.

Hospitals.

35. Any Local Board may provide for the use of the inhabitants of its district hospitals or temporary places for the
    reception of the sick, and for that purpose may—

Itself build such hospitals or places of reception; or
Contract for the use of any such hospital or part of a
hospital or place of reception; or
Enter into any agreement with any person having the
management of any hospital for the reception of the
sick inhabitants of its district, on payment of such
annual or other sum as may be agreed on.

Two or more Local Boards may combine in providing a
common hospital.

36. Any expenses incurred by a Local Board in maintaining in a hospital, or in a temporary place for the reception
    of the sick (whether or not belonging to such Board), a
    patient who is not a pauper, shall be deemed to be a debt
    due from such patient to the Local Board, and may be
    recovered from him at any time within six months after his
    discharge from such hospital or place of reception, or from
    his estate in the event of his dying in such hospital or place.

37. Any Local Board may, with the sanction of the
    Central Board, itself provide or contract with any person to
    provide a temporary supply of medicine and medical assistance for the poorer inhabitants of its district.

Mortuaries, &c.

38. Any Local Board may, and if required by the Central
    Board shall, provide and fit up a proper place for the reception of dead bodies before interment (in this Part of this Act
    called a mortuary), and may make by-laws with respect to
    the management and charges for use of the same; it may
    also provide for the decent and economical interment, at
    charges to be fixed by such by-laws, of any dead body which
    may be received into a mortuary.

39. Where the body of one who has died of any infectious
    disease is retained in a room in which persons live or sleep,
    or any dead body which is in such a state as to endanger the
    health of the inmates of the same house or room is retained
    in such house or room, any Justice may, on a certificate
    signed by a legally-qualified medical practitioner, order the
    body to be removed, at the cost of the Local Board, to any
    mortuary provided by such Board, and direct the same to be
    buried within a time to be limited in such order; and unless
    the friends or relations of the deceased undertake to bury the
    body within the time so limited, and do bury the same, it
    shall be the duty of the Board to cause such body to be
    buried; but any expense so incurred may be recovered by the
    Board in a summary manner from any person legally liable
    to pay the expense of such burial.

Any person obstructing the execution of an order made
by a Justice under this section shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding five pounds.

40. Any Local Board may provide and maintain a proper
    place (otherwise than at a mortuary) for the reception of
    dead bodies during the time required to conduct any post-mortem examination ordered by a Coroner or other constituted authority, and may make regulations with respect to
    the management of such place.

Where any such place has been provided, a Coroner or
other constituted authority may order the removal of the
body to and from such place for carrying out such post-mortem examination, such costs of removal to be paid in the
same manner and out of the same fund as the costs and fees
for post-mortem examinations when ordered by the Coroner.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY,
(in the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Supply of Vaccine Lymph required.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1884.

THE Government are desirous of obtaining a supply of
pure vaccine lymph from the calf, delivered at various
centres; and invite offers from duly-qualified medical gentlemen, stating the quantities in which they are prepared to
supply the lymph, and the price: the quality to be
guaranteed.

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

By Authority: GEORGE DIDSBUY, Govt. Printer, Wellington.