Sub-Title B - Public Health

• Author: Ralph Hone
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215 Health Services

CHAPTER 215.

HEALTH SERVICES.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

1. SHORT TITLE.

2. INTERPRETATION.

Public Health Authorities and Administration.' 3. APPOINTMENT OF MINISTER.

4. APPOINTMENT OF HEALTH BOARD.

5. ESTABLISHMENT OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

6. SUPPLY OF MEDICINES, ETC., AT PUBLIC EXPENSE.

7. PAYMENT OF FEES FOR TREATMENT.

8. MAGISTRATE'S POWERS.

9. SUPREME COURT MAY MAKE AN ORDER CHARGING REAL PROPERTY.

Unsound Food.

10. POWER TO INSPECT AND CONDEMN FOOD UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. OFFENCE TO TRAFFIC IN FOOD, ETC., UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

11. PUNISHMENT FOR SELLING ADULTERATED MILK AND PROCEEDINGS RELATING THERETO.

12. PENALTY FOR OBSTRUCTING HEALTH OFFICER.

13. POWER To EXTEND SECTIONS 10, 11 AND 12 TO OUT ISLANDS.

Provisions as to Water.

14. FOULING WATER SUPPLY.

15. CLOSING OF POLLUTED WATER SUPPLY.

In~fectious Diseases.

16. NOTICES TO BE GIVEN OF OUTBREAK OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

17. STEPS TO BE TAKEN ON NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

18. REMOVAL OF INFECTED ARTICLES FOR DISINFECTION OR DESTRUCTION AND NECESSARY POWERS.

19. ISOLATION OF INFECTED PERSONS AND CONTACTS AND OTHER POWERS OF A MEDICAL OFFICER.

20. PENALTY FOR CASTING INFECTED RUBBISH, ETC., INTO DUST-BINS.

21. DISINFECTION, AND NOTICE TO OWNERS, OF INFECTED HOUSE ON GIVING up POSSESSION.

22. PENALTY FOR LETTING INFECTED HOUSE.

23. PENALTY FOR MAKING FALSE STATEMENT ON LETTING INFECTED HOUSE.

24. WASHING OF INFECTED CLOTHING.

25. INFECTED CHILDREN NOT To BE SENT To SCHOOL.

26. INFECTED PERSON NOT TO TAKE BOOKS, ETC., FROM LIBRARY.

27. CERTAIN PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASES MAY BE REMOVED To HOSPITAL.

28. PENALTY ON EXPOSURE OF INFECTED PERSONS AND THINGS.

29. PROVISION FOR PREVENTING THE INFECTION OF PUBLIC CONVEYANCES.

30. PROVISION Fop, DEALING WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES SUSPECTED DUE TO MILK.

31. PENALTY FOR NOT BURYING INFECTED CORPSE PROMPTLY.

32. PENALTY FOR HOLDING WAKE OVER INFECTED CORPSE.

SECTION.

33. BURIAL OF PERSONS DYING IN HOSPITAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

34. BURIAL OF CORPSE ON DEFAULT OF RELATIVES AND RECOVERY OF EXPENSES.

35. ANATOMICAL EXAMINATION OF CORPSES OF PERSONS DYING OF CERTAIN DISEASES.

Prohibition of Certain Trades to Persons Suffering from Infectious Diseases.

36. INFECTED PERSONS NOT TO EXERCISE CERTAIN CALLINGS.

Rules.

37. RULES.

38. APPLICATION OF RULES.

Miscellaneous.

39. APPLICATION OF Aar TO ALL BUILDINGS AND VESSELS, ETC.

40. GENERAL POWER OF ENTRY TO PREMISES.

41. PENALTIES FOR VARIOUS OFFENCES.

42. NUISANCE CAUSED BY MORE THAN ONE PERSON.

43. RECOVERY BY MINISTER OF EXPENSES INCURRED IN ABATING NUISANCES.

44. NOTICES, AUTHENTICATION AND SERVICE OF.

45. METHOD OF RECOVERING PENALTIES AND EXPENSES.

46. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS BY THE MINISTER.

47. POWER OF ENTRY TO EXAMINE OR INSPECT.

48. EVIDENCE OF PERSONS AUITORISED TO PERFORM DUTIES.

49. REVENUE OFFICERS TO REPORT OFFENSIVE MATTER ON BOARD ANY VESSEL IN PORT.

50. WHEN A COMMISSIONER IS UNABLE TO ADJUDICATE.

51. PROVISIONS OF ACT NOT TO BE IN DEROGATION OF OTHER LEGAL PROVISIONS AND RIGHTS.

52. GENERAL PENALTY.

53. POWER TO GOVERNOR TO VARY INTERPRETATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, ETC.

54. EXPENSES.

55. PROPERTY VESTED IN TREASURER.

56. CONTRACTS.

57. SERVING OFFICERS.

SCHEDULE.

TRADES PROHIBITED TO PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

CHAPTER 215.

HEALTH SERVICES.

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR SECURING THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

[22nd June 1914.1

1. This Act may be cited as The Health Services Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'building' includes the curtilage of a building;

'Chief Medical Officer' means the chief medical officer appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Act;

'cistern' includes a tank, water-butt, jar, cask, barrel, tub or other receptacle used for storing water;

'contact' means a person who, in the opinion of a medical officer, has been exposed to infection from an infectious disease;

'dairy' includes any farm, farmhouse, cow-shed, milk-store, milk-shop, milk-cart, pasture, road or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale;

'dairyman' includes any cow-keeper, purveyor of milk or person in charge of a dairy;

'day' means the period between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening;

'Department' means the Health Department established under section 5;

'disinfecting' and 'cleansing' respectively include fumigating for the purpose of destroying noxious insects and rats, lime-washing and all other measures from time to time prescribed;

17 of 1914.

28 of 1920.

42 of 1926.

9 of 1928.

28 of 1947.

23 of 1962.

24 of 1962.

39 of 1963.

43 of 1964.

Short title.

39 of 1963, s. 2.

Interpretation.

39 of 1963, s. 3.

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Ch. 11.

39 of 1963, s. 3.

39 of 1963, s. 3.

23 of 1962, s. 2.

28 of 1920, s. 2.

39 of 1963, s. 3.

'district' means any one of the districts into which the Out Islands are divided under The Out Islands Administration Act, or any other area in which a government medical officer is directed by the Minister to carry out his duties;

'dust-bin' means any bin, tub or other receptacle for the deposit of dust, sweepings, rubbish or refuse matter;

'earth-closet' means a closet in which dry earth, lime or other matter is used for covering and deodorising human excreta;

'health officer' means any member of the Health Department authorised by the Minister to act as a health officer and includes a commissioner so authorised;

'hospital' means the Princess Margaret Hospital, the Sandilands Mental Hospital, the Geriatric Hospital and the Leper Asylum and includes any government clinic;

'house' includes schools, also factories and other buildings in which persons are employed and the curtilage of a house;

'house gutter' includes eaves-gutter and any other gutter upon, or attached to any dwellinghouse or building whatsoever;

'human consumption' includes use in the preparation of food or drink for human consumption;

'infectious disease' means any of the following diseases, namely: plague, smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, diphtheria, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, scarlatina, mumps, measles, german measles, typhus fever, whooping cough, hydrophobia, trachoma, puerperal fever; relapsing fever, dysentery, cerebrospinal fever, acute poliomyelitis, influenza, tuberculosis and pneumonia;

'isolation station' includes any house, part of a house, tent, vessel or place in which any patient or contact is isolated;

'larvae' includes pupae;

'master' means in the case of a building or part of a building, a person in occupation of or having the charge, management or control of the building, or part of the building, and in the HCH.215. 2449 case of a house the whole of which is let out in separate tenements or rooms, or in the case of a lodging house the whole of which is let to lodgers, includes the person receiving the rent payable by the tenants or lodgers either on his own account or as the agent of another person, and in the case of a vessel means the master or other person in charge thereof;

'medical officer' includes the Chief Medical Officer and a district medical officer;

'medical officer of health' means any medical officer appointed to be a medical officer of health and includes the Chief Medical Officer and a district medical officer;

'medical practitioner' means a duly qualified medical practitioner within the meaning of The Medical Practitioners Act or any Act passed in amendment thereof or substitution therefor;

'Minister' means the Minister appointed under section 3;

'noxious insects' includes mosquitoes, fleas, flies and other insects which may be from time to time prescribed;

'owner' means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such premises were let;

'pail closet' means a moveable receptacle for human excreta;

'patient' means a person whom a medical officer or medical practitioner believes or suspects to be suffering from an infectious disease;

'place,of public resort' includes any library, building, place or conveyance to which for the time being the public are entitled or permitted to have access, either without any condition or upon condition of making any payment, and any building or place which is for the time being used for any public or religious meeting or assembly or as an open court;

'prescribed' means prescribed for the time being by the Governor by Order published in the Gazette;

39 of 1963, s. 3.

Ch. 210.

39 of 1963, s. 3.

39 of 1963, s. 3.

'public place' includes any park, market, market place, street, highway, road, bridge, wharf, pier, jetty, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not;

'rules' means rules made under this Act;

'sanitary conveniences' includes urinals, waterclosets, earth-closets, pail closets, privies and any similar conveniences or receptacles for human excreta or urine, together with the structure comprising such convenience or receptacle and the fittings and apparatus connected therewith;

'suffering from an infectious disease', 'liable to retain infection,' 'exposed to infection,' 'injurious to health,' 'dangerous to health' and 'infected' respectively mean so suffering, so liable to retain, so exposed, so injurious, so dangerous or infected, in the opinion of a medical officer or in any district where there is no medical officer in the opinion of a commissioner;

'town' means any area in New Providence or in any Out Island now known or commonly called a town or hereafter declared by the Governor by notice in the Gazette to be a town for the purposes of this Act and includes the City of Nassau and its suburbs as defined in any Act;

'vessel' includes ship, boat and every description of vessel used in navigation;

'village' means any area containing ten or more houses used for human habitation beyond the boundaries of a town, no one of which...