Infectious Diseases Regulations 1914 (ACT)

THE TERRITORY FOR THE SEAT OF

GOVERNMENT.

REGULATIONS .RELATING TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES UNDER

THE PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE 1912 (No. 4 OF 1912).

BY virtue of the provisions of the Public Health Ordinance 1912, I, Joseph Cook, Minister of State for Home Affairs, herehy make the

following Regulations, but such Regulations shall not affect the applica-

tion to the Territory of the provisions of sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, and 50 of Ordinance (Municipalities) No. 39 relating to public health, safety, and convenience made under the Local Government Act 1906 of the State of New South Wales, but the provisions of those sections shall, so far as applicable, continue to apply to the Territory as heretofore.

Dated this 27th day of July, 1914.

JOSEPH COOK,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases Regu- lations 1914. s, t lil]e.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears-—

" Director-General of Public Health" means the person for the time being occupying, the position of Director of Public Health for the Territory';

" Health Inspector " means the person for the time being occupying

the position of Health Inspector for the Territory;

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" H o u s e " means any building or structure, whether temporary or otherwise, including tents or vans, and includes a place of worship, school, factory, work-room, shop, hotel, public house, or other premises of a licensed victualler;.

" Infectious Disease" includes leprosy, beri-beri,.bubonic or oriental plague, small-pox, cholera, yellow fever, cerebro-spinal menin- gitis, anterior polio-myelitis, Malta fever, pulmonary tuber- culosis, erysipelas, scarlatina, or scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, membranous croup, septicaemia, pyeemia, purulent- ophthalmia,, gastro-enteritis, or the fevers known by any of the following names:—Typhus, typhoid, malarial , dengue, low, continued, colonial, relapsing, or puerperal,, and also includes the condition in which the organism presumed to cause any of the before-mentioned diseases is found to be present in any person;

" Medical Officer of Heal th " means the person for the time being occupying the position of Medical Officer of Heal th for tho Terr i tory;

.;•• " O c c u p i e r " means the person having the charge, management, or control of premises, and in the case of a house which is let out in separate tenements, or in the case of a lodging-house which is let to lodgers, the person receiving the rent payable by the tenants or lodgers, either on his own account or as the agent of another person, and also includes any person in occupation of the surface of any land of the Crown, no twi ths t and ing any want or defect of title to occupy the same.

Administration. 3. (1) There shall be a Director-General of Public Health, .who
shall advise the Administrator in all matters arising under these

.. ." Regulations.

(2) There shall be a Medical Officer of Health, who shall, under the Administrator, be subject to the direction of the Director-General of Public Health.

(3) There shall be a Heal th Inspector, who shall be subject to the

. direction of the Medical Officer of Health.

o? infeoMous'	4. (1) Whenever, in any house, any person is ' found' to be suffering from any infectious disease, or from any sickness the symptoms of which raise a reasonable suspicion that it may be an infectious disease, the following provisions shall apply :—
diseases.

(a ) Upon the day on which the occupier of the house becomes aware of the nature of the disease of which the patient is sick or suspected to be sick, he shall give notice thereof to the Medical. Officer of Hea l th ;

(h) The Medical Practit ioner who attends the patient shall, upon the day on which he becomes aware of the nature of the disease or suspected disease, give notice thereof to the occupier, and also to the Medical Officer of Health, and on the death of any such patient forthwith,' notify the Medical Officer of Health of such death.

(2) The notification of the existence of infectious disease required by sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation to be given by the medical prac-

titioner to the Medical Officer of Health shall be in writing, in accord-

ance with Porrn A in the Schedule hereto.

(3.) A medical practitioner shall not be liable to any proceedings for any misstatement made in good faith in a notification of any infectious -disease, if he promptly notifies to the Medical Officer 'of Heal th any change in his diagnosis.

(4.) The Minister shall pay, or cause to be paid, to each medical

practitioner a fee of Two shillings and sixpence for every case notified

by him in accordance with this section. . . .. . -

(5.) When the head teacher of any school becomes aware that any of the children attending the school, or any member of the staff of the school, is suffering from an infectious disease, he shall at once notify the Medical Officer of Health.

Power to enter

house and	5. The Medical Officer of Health, or other person authorized by the' Minister, may at all reasonable 1im.es enter any house and examine any inmate of such house, or any person found therein at the time of such visit, for the purpose of ascertaining whether such inmate or person is suffering- from an infectious disease.
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Adults suffering 6. Any person found to be suffering from an infectious disease shall	diseases. °10US comply with any orders given, in writing, by the Medical Officer of

Health.

Children

suffering from	7. The parent or guardian of any child found to be suffering from an
infectious	infectious disease shall comply with any orders given, in writing, by the
diseases.	Medical Officer of Health.

8. After it has been found that a person in any house is suffering Contacts.

from an infectious disease, the inmate of the house, or any person who enters or quits the house, shall be considered as a contact, and shall be liable to such restrictions or orders as the Medical Officer of Heal th directs, and may be removed to an isolated place, and, if so removed, shall remain in the isolated place for such period as the Medical Officer of Heal th directs.

management or ordering of any house, shall comply with all orders or P»'emlscs-	9. (1.) The owner, occupier, or any person having the care and Disinfection of
directions notified,' in writing, by the Medical Officer of Heal th regard- ing the cleansing, purifying, ventilating, and disinfecting of the house, and of the drainage and sanitary appliances belonging thereto.	©
(2.) I f such owner, occupier, or other person fails to comply with the said orders or directions within the . time limited by the notice, the Administrator may 'authorize the work to be done, and recover the expense of so doing from the party in default, without prejudice to any further or other liability of the owner, occupier, or other person under these Regulations.
10. A person who is affected with any infectious disease shall not—	Affected person

• ( a ) wilfully expose himself in any house or place to which the himsd^fe?6

public have resort, or in any public vehicle, without proper

precautions against spreading the infection; or

(b) enter any public vehicle without previously notifying to the . owner, conductor, or driver thereof that he is so affected.

11. A person who is in charge of any person affected with any infectious disease shall not so expose such affected person, nor allow him illc:h.alJe of to do anything in breach of the preceding Regulation.	D u t v of person
Medical Officer of Health, send to school a child who has within the t0 s c n ° o 1 from	12. A person shall not, without the permission, in writing, of the sending child
• . , i i tv ' • r • j* j • T i infected house.

previous two months been suiiermg from an infectious disease or been resident in a house where a case of infectious disease has during that time occurred.

13. Any person who ceases to oceupy a house, any part of which has persons quitting

within the previous six weeks been used, during his occupancy, by a ^ ^ s j n which

person suffering from an infectious disease, shall— occurred.

( a ) have such house or part disinfected thoroughly to the satis-

fac'tion of the Medical Officer of Hea l th ; and

,' (b) give notice to the owner or incoming occupier of the house of

the previous existence of the disease.

14. A person shall not let for hire any house or par t of a house which Letting of house .

has, to his knowledge, been occupied by a person suffering from any ;!Jfe*aonhas
infectious disease without informing the person proposing to hire the occurred,
house of that fact, unless the Medical Officer of Heal th shall previously

certify, in writing, that, in his opinion, there is no longer any risk of

infection from such house or part .

15. The owner of any bedding, clothing, or other articles which have Disinfection,

been exposed to infection shall, when required so to do by notice, in *»., of bedding.
writing, from the Medical Officer of Health, deliver up such articles to
the person named in the notice for the purpose of destruction . or

disinfection.

16. The person in charge' of any vehicle, t rain, or t ram in which a Disinfection of

person known or believed by him^to be suffering from an infectious public vehicles.
disease has been conveyed, shall, before its further use, disinfect the
vehicle, t rain, or t ram to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of

Heal th.

17. The person in charge of the body of a person who has died of Disposal of

an infectious disease shall comply with the orders of the Medical Officer	j^* s° 'dy i l l g
of Heal th regarding' the treatment and disposal of the body.	of infectious

18. Any medical practitioner or other person who fails to comply Penalty for •

with, or is guilty of^a breach of any of these Regulations, shall be liable	^ ^ n B .
to a penalty not exceeding Twenty pounds.

THE SCHEDULE.

. .. . ' ' . . • Form A.

COMMONWEALTH OE AUSTRALIA.

Public Health Ordinance 1912.

... . INFECTIOUS .DISEASES REGULATIONS 1914. .

I hereby certify that the person "whose name and address" appears

hereunder is suffering from

Full name of patient

Address of patient

Occupation

Age

Sex

Date of commencement of illness

Source of milk supply

Attends school at , '.

S i g n a t u r e . . . . . . . . . . v : . . ' . . . . . .

Medical Practitioner.

Date. . . . . . . : . . .

To the Medical Officer of Health.

(P.O. 14/615.)

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