Anno undecimo & duodecimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. CXXIII. An act to renew and amend an act of the tenth year of her present majesty, for the more speedy removal of certain nuisances, and the prevention of contagious and epidemic diseases. (4th September 1848.).

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[1848]
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Credit: Anno undecimo & duodecimo Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. CXXIII. An act to renew and amend an act of the tenth year of her present majesty, for the more speedy removal of certain nuisances, and the prevention of contagious and epidemic diseases. (4th September 1848.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VIII. And be it enacted, That whenever it is intended N.otlce tobe to build or open any Hospital for the Reception of Patients ,f era?Board of afflicted with contagious or infectious Diseases or Disorders, Health, and the Trustees or other Persons by whose Authority such ^ Hospital is intended so to be built or opened as aforesaid, erXfXealth, shall give Notice of such Intention to the said General of intention to Board of Health or (in Ireland) to the Commissioners of build or open Health hereinafter mentioned ; and no such Plospital shall J^is Xc. °Spi be built or opened as aforesaid until the said General Board of Health or Commissioners of Health, as the Case may be, have approved thereof in Writing; but nothing herein contained shall apply to the building or opening of any Addition to a Building which shall have been used as a Hospital previously to such Addition. IX. And whereas it is expedient that when any Part of ^ivy^ouncil> the United Kingdom shall appear to be threatened with edXXXor or affected by any formidable epidemic, endemic, or conta- ders for put- gious Disease, Measures of Precaution should be taken f°r-ce with Promptitude, according to the Exigency of the Case: 0f this Act re- Be it therefore enacted, That in Great Britain the Lords lative to the and others of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coim- Prevention of cil, or any Three or more of them, (the Lord President ease^&c. 1S of the Council, or One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secre- taries of State, being One,) and in Ireland the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors and Privy Council of Ireland, may, by Order or Orders to be by them from Time to Time made, direct that the Provi- sions herein-after contained for the Prevention of epidemic, endemic, and contagious Diseases be put in force in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, or in such Parts there- of or in such Places therein respectively as in such Order or Orders respectively may be expressed, and may from Time to Time, as to all or any of the Parts or Places to which any such Order or Orders may extend, and in like Manner, revoke or renew any such Order, and subject to Revocation and Renewal as aforesaid, every such Order shall be in force for Six Calendar Months, or for such shorter Period as in such Order shall be expressed. X. And be it enacted, That from Time to Time after After Order the issuing of any such Order as last aforesaid, and whilst Jy PrhT , the same shall continue, in force, the General Board of t>Lrd°of Health (in Great Britain), under the Seal of the said Health, &c.,' Board, and the Hands of Two or more Members thereof, may issue pi- and in Ireland the Commissioners of Health for the Time being, under the Hands of Two or more of them, may ssue such Directions and Regulations as the said Board