Section 19Part 6 — Notification, Prevention and Suppression of Disease
Notification of disease
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Where an inmate of any premises used for human habitation is suffering from a notifiable disease, or any disease the symptoms of which may give rise to a suspicion that it may be a notifiable disease then —
the head of the family to which such inmate (herein referred to as the patient) belongs, and in that person's default, the nearest relatives of the patient present in or upon the premises or being in attendance on the patient, and in default of such person, the occupier of the premises shall, as soon as that person becomes aware that the patient is suffering from a notifiable disease, forthwith send notice thereof to the Senior Medical Officer of Health; and
every medical practitioner attending or called in to visit the patient shall forthwith, on becoming aware that the patient is suffering from a notifiable disease or a disease which that person suspects to be a notifiable disease send to the Senior Medical Officer of Health a certificate stating the name and sex of the patient, the situation of the premises, and the disease from which, in the opinion of such medical practitioner, such patient is suffering or suspected to be suffering.
Whoever, being required by subsection (1) to send a notice or certificate, fails forthwith to send the same commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of one hundred dollars.
A Medical Officer of Health shall, upon application, supply forms of certificates for use under subsection (1)(b) free of charge to any medical practitioner.
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notifiable diseaseinmatepatientSenior Medical Officer of Health