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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
or who shall wilfully offend against any of the foregoing provisions shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings and to a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings,
105. Section 124 of the Public Health Act 1875 shall extend and apply to all cases of persons suffering from any dangerous infectious disease and being in or upon any house or premises where such person cannot be effectually isolated so as to prevent the spread of the disease.
106. No person shall return to any public library any book which has to his knowledge been exposed to infection from any infectious disease until such book has been disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health or unless prior to the return of such book notice that it has been exposed to infection shall have been given to the librarian If any person offends against this enactment he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
107. Every dairyman who shall sell the milk of any cow to his knowledge affected with tuberculosis or milk (or parturient) fever shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
108. Every dairyman occupying any dairy in or supplying milk in the borough shall notify to the Corporation all cases of tuberculosis or milk fever to his knowledge occurring in his dairy and in default shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
109. If any dairyman shall at the request of the Corporation stop his milk supply within the borough on account of the spread or suspected spread of infectious
disease the Corporation shall make compensation to him for any loss occasioned by such stoppage.
110. If any midwife or nurse shall at the request of the Corporation stop her employment as such for the purpose of preventing the spread of infectious disease the Corporation shall make compensation to her for any loss she may sustain by reason of such stoppage.
111. Whenever any scholar who attends any school within the borough shall be suffering from any infectious disease the principal or person in charge of such school or (if such school is divided into separate departments and there is no principal or person in charge of the whole school) the person in charge
of the department which such scholar attends shall forthwith send notice thereof to the medical officer of health and shall furnish to the Corporation at their request a list of the pupils attending thereat together with their addresses and in default thereof shall be liable to a penalty not
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