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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
services also any building structure or work vested in or in the occupation of any department of Her Majesty's Government for public purposes or for the public service.
94. Nothing in this part of this Act or in any byelaws to be made thereunder shall apply to any buildings (not being a dwellinghouse) belonging to any railway company and used by such company as a part of or in connexion with their railway.
PART X.-INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SANITARY.
95. Any person taking or sending to any public wash-house or to any person for the purpose of being washed or mangled any bedding clothing or other things which to his knowledge have been exposed to infection from any infectious disease shall previously to so taking or sending the same cause such bedding clothing or other things to be disinfected by the Corporation or to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health and in default shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings and the Corporation shall make provision for disinfecting and shall on application disinfect at their expense such bedding clothing and other things.
96. Every person who shall knowingly place in or cause to enter into any public vehicle a person suffering from any infectious disease without previously notifying to the owner conductor or driver thereof that such person is so suffering shall be liable to the penalty imposed by section 126 of the Public Health Act 1875 for exposure of infected persons and things.
97. It shall not be lawful for any owner or driver of a public vehicle used for the carrying of passengers at separate fares knowingly to convey or for any other person knowingly to place in any such public vehicle a person suffering from any infectious disease or for a person suffering from any such disease to enter any such vehicle and every person offending against this enactment shall for every such offence be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
98. If any person suffering from any infectious disease is conveyed in any public vehicle the owner or driver thereof as soon as it comes to his knowledge shall give notice to the medical officer of health and shall cause such vehicle to be disinfected and if he falls so to do he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds and the owner or driver of such vehicle shall be entitled to recover in a summary manner from the person so conveyed by him or from the person causing that person to be so conveyed a sum sufficient to
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