S.I. No. 126/1942 - Public Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations, 1942.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1942. No. 126.

PUBLIC HEALTH (INFECTIOUS DISEASES) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1942.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

WHEREAS in pursuance of the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health (hereinafter referred to as " the Minister ") did by the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1941, make provision for the notification, prevention and treatment of certain epidemic, endemic or infectious diseases as therein provided :

AND WHEREAS the disease known as " diarrhœa and enteritis " is an infectious disease :

AND WHEREAS it is expedient to extend temporarily the provisions of the said Regulations to the said disease of diarrhœa and enteritis in the County Borough and County of Dublin :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919, and of all other powers in that behalf enabling him, does hereby make the following regulations, that is to say :—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations, 1942.

2. These regulations shall continue in force until the 30th day of June, 1943, inclusive, and shall then expire.

3. The provisions of the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1941, shall in their application to the urban sanitary district of the County Borough of Dublin and to every urban and rural sanitary district in the Administrative County of Dublin, and the sanitary authorities thereof, have effect as if the disease known as " diarrhœa and enteritis " were included among the diseases mentioned in the First Schedule to the said Regulations, and the said regulations shall be read and construed accordingly.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, this Twenty-eighth day of March, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-two.

(Signed) SEÁN MacENTEE,

Minister for Local Government and

Public Health.