THE VACCINATION ACT The Public Health Act 
(Chap. 218, R.S.O. 1914) 
With Amendments of Years 1914 and 1915 
The Vaccination Act 
(Chap. 219, R.S.O. 1914) 
ONTARIO 
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19 15 The Public Health Act 
(Chap. 218, R.S.O. 1914) 
With Amendments of Years 1914 and 1915 
The Vaccination Act 
(Chap. 219, R.S.O. 1914) 
ONTARIO 
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Toronto. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES 
Must be reported. Premises must be disinfected. 
' Smallpox. 
Leprosy. 
[-Must be quarantined-no option. 
Scarlet Fever. 
Diphtheria. 
Bubonic Plague. 
Cholera. 
Measles. 
Anterior Polio-Myelitis. 
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. 
Must be 
quarantined. 
Bread-win- 
ners freed 
by option of 
M.O.H. 
Must 
be 
placarded. 
Typhoid Fever. 
Chickenpox. 
Whooping Cough. 
>Must be isolated. 
Mumps. 
Glanders. 
Anthrax. 
Tuberculosis. 
Rabies. 
Erysipelas. 4 
CHAPTER 218. 
AN ACT RESPECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 
HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts 
as follows i- 
SHORT TITLE, 
1. This Act may be cited as The Public Health Act. 2 Geo, 
V. c. 58, s. l.x 
INTERPRETATION 
2. In this Act, 
(a) " Chief Officer " shall mean the Chief Officer of Health 
for Ontario; 
(&) "Communicable disease" shall mean and include any 
contagious or infectious disease, and shall include 
smallpox, chickenpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, ty- 
* phoid fever, measles, German measles, glanders, 
cholera, erysipelas, tuberculosis, mumps, anthrax, 
bubonic plague, rabies, poliomyelitis and cerebro- 
spinal meningitis, and any other disease which may 
be declared by the Regulations to be a communicable 
disease; 
(c) "House" or "household" shall include a dwelling 
house, lodging house, or hotel, and a students' resi- 
dence, fraternity house, or other building in which 
any person in attendance as a student, pupil or 
teacher, or employed in any capacity in or about a 
university, college, school or other institution of 
learning resides or is lodged; 
(J) " Householder " shall include the proprietor, master, 
mistress, manager, housekeeper, janitor, and care- 
taker of a house; 
(e) "Local Board" shall mean the local board of health 
for any municipality; 
(/) " Medical Officer of Health " shall mean the medical 
officer of health of the municipality appointed under 
this Act; 
(g) " Member of a household " shall mean a person resid- 
ing, boarding or lodging in a house; 
Short title 
Interpreta- 
tion. 
" Chief 
officer." 
" Com- 
municable 
disease." 
" House," 
" House- 
hold." 
" House- 
holder." 
" Local 
Board." 
" Medical 
Officer of 
Health." 
" Member 
of a house- 
hold." 5 
(ft) " Minister " shall mean the member of the Executive 
Council of Ontario charged by the Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor in Council with the administration of this 
Act; 
(i) " Municipality " shall not include a county; 
(;) " Occupier " shall mean the person in occupation or 
having the charge, management or control of any 
premises, whether on his own account or as the agent 
of any person; 
Gk) " Owner" shall mean the person for the time being 
entitled in his own right, or as trustee, mortgagee 
in possession, guardian, committee, agent, or other- 
wise, to receive the rents, issues and profits of any 
property or from any premises; 
(Z) " Premises " shall mean and include any land or any 
building, public or private, sailing, steam, or other 
vessel, any vehicle, steam, electric or street railway 
car for the conveyance of passengers or freight, any 
tent, van, or other structure of any kind, any mine, 
and any stream, lake, drain, ditch or place, open, 
covered or enclosed, public or private, natural or 
artificial, and whether maintained under statutory 
authority or not; 
(m) " Provincial Board " shall mean the Provincial Board 
of Health; 
(n) "Regulations" shall mean regulations made by the 
Provincial Board under the authority of this Act; 
(o) "Street" shall include any highway, and any public 
bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, court, 
alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 2. 
PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH 
3.-(l) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint 
not more than six persons, who, with the Chief Officer of Health, 
shall constitute the Provincial Board of Health for Ontario. 
(2) The members of the Board so appointed shall hold office 
for three years from the date of appointment, and shall be 
eligible for re-appointment. 
(3) At least four members of the Board shall be legally quali- 
fied medical practitioners. 
(4) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may designate one 
of the members of the Board to be the Chairman thereof. 
" Minister." 
" Munici- 
pality." 
" Occupier." 
" Owner." 
" Premises." 
" Provincial 
Board." 
" Regula- 
tions.'" 
" Street." 
Provincial 
Board, how 
constituted. 
Term of 
office. 
Four to be 
medical 
men. 
Chairman. 6 
Remunera- 
tion. 
(5) The members of the Board so appointed shall be paid 
such salary or other remuneration as may be voted by the 
Assembly, together with their actual travelling and other neces- 
sary expenses while employed on the business of the Board. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 3. 
4-(1) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint 
a legally qualified medical practitioner of at least five years' 
standing to be the Chief Officer of Health for Ontario. 
(2) The Chief Officer of Health shall be ex officio a member 
of the Board, and shall be the Secretary thereof. 
(3) The Chief Officer of Health shall be the executive officer 
of the Board, and in the intervals between the meetings of the 
Board shall perform such duties and shall have such powers as 
are imposed upon or by this Act vested in the Board. 
(4) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may also appoint 
a duly qualified medical practitioner, of at least five years' stand- 
ing, to be Provincial Inspector of Health. 
(5) The Provincial Inspector of Health may exercise, any- 
where in Ontario, any of the powers conferred by this Act on 
medical officers of health, and he shall act, under the direction 
of the Provincial Board, and shall perform such duties as may be 
assigned to him by the Board or by the Chief Officer of Health. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 4. 
5-(1) The Provincial Board shall meet at least four times 
in every year. 
(2) A majority of the Provincial Board shall be a quorum. 
(3) The Board may make rules regulating the transaction 
of its business, and may provide therein for the appointment 
of committees to whom it may delegate authority and power 
for the work committed to them. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 5. 
6. It shall be the duty of the Provincial Board, and it shall 
have power to,- 
(a) Make investigations and enquiries respecting the causes 
of disease and mortality in Ontario or in any part 
thereof; 
(5) Advise the officers of the Government in regard to 
public health generally, and as to drainage, water 
supply, disposal of garbage and excreta, heating, ven- 
tilation and plumbing of premises; 
(c) Exercise a careful oversight of vaccine matter and 
serum produced or offered for sale in Ontario, or 
manufacture the same if deemed advisable, and as 
Chief Officer 
-appoint- 
ment-■ 
qualifica- 
tion. 
Ex-officio 
member and 
secretary of 
Board. 
Duties and 
powers. 
Provincial 
Inspector 
of Health. 
Duties and 
powers. 
Meetings. 
Quorum. 
Rules and 
by-laws. 
Duties and 
powers of 
Board. 
Investiga- 
tions as to 
disease and 
mortality. 
Advising as 
to sanitary 
matters. 
Oversight 
of vaccine 
and serum. far as possible prevent the sale of the same when 
found to be impure or inert, and see that a supply 
of proper vaccine matter is obtainable at all times 
at such vaccine farms and other places as are sub- 
ject to inspection by the Board; 
(d) Determine whether the existing condition of any prem- 
ises or of any street, or public place, or the method 
of manufacture or business process, or the disposal 
of sewage, trade or other waste, garbage or excre- 
mentitious matter is a nuisance or injurious to 
health; 
(e) Inspect all county gaols, prisons, houses of refuge, asy- 
lums, hospitals, sanatoria, orphanages, homes or 
places of refuge, charitable institutions and other 
public or private institutions for the safe keeping, 
custody or care of any person confined therein by 
process of law, or received or cared for therein at 
his own charges or by public or private charity, and 
see that such institutions are kept in a proper sani- 
tary condition and that this Act and the Regulations 
are complied with; 
(/) Make public distribution of sanitary literature, especi- 
ally during the prevalence in any part of Ontario 
of any communicable disease, and pay particular 
attention to all matters relating to the prevention 
and spread of communicable diseases in such manner 
as the Board may deem best to control any outbreak; 
(y) Enter into and go upon any premises in the exercise 
of any power or the performance of any duty under 
this Act, and make such orders and give such direc- 
tions with regard to the structural alteration of the 
premises or with respect to any other matter as the 
Board may deem advisable in the interests of the 
public health. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 6. 
7.-(l) The Provincial Board may direct the Chairman or 
Secretary or any member or officer of the Board to investigate 
the causes of any communicable disease or mortality in any part 
of Ontario, and the person so directed may take evidence on 
oath or otherwise, as he may deem expedient, and shall, for the 
purposes of such investigation, possess all the powers which 
may be conferred upon a commissioner appointed under The 
Public Inquiries Act. 
(2) Where it appears to the Board that any unsanitary con- 
dition or nuisance exists in a municipality, and that the local 
board has. on a proper representation of the facts, neglected or 
refused to take such measures as may remove such condition or 
abate such nuisance, the Board may direct an investigation as 
provided by subsection 1. 
7 
Enquiring 
into alleged 
nuisances. 
Inspection 
of sanitary 
conditions 
in gaols, etc. 
Distribu- 
tion of 
literature. 
Entry on 
premises 
and orders 
as to 
alterations 
therein. 
Investiga- 
tion as to 
disease and 
mortality. 
Rev. Stat, 
c. 18. 
Investiga- 
tion as to 
unsanitary- 
conditions 
and 
nuisances. 8 
Removal or 
abatement. 
(3) If upon such investigation it is found that a remediable 
unsanitary condition or nuisance exists, the Board may direct 
its immediate removal or abatement by the person responsible 
therefor and if such person neglects or refuses after three days' 
notice by the Board to remove or abate the same, may cause such 
removal or abatement to be made, and the treasurer of the muni- 
cipality shall forthwith pay out of any money of the munici- 
pality any expenses incurred under such orders. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 7. 
8. The Provincial Board, with the approval of the Lieuten- 
ant-Governor in Council, may make such Regulations as may 
be deemed necessary for, 
(a) The prevention or mitigation of disease; 
(&) The frequent and effectual cleansing of streets, yards 
and premises; 
(c) The removal of nuisances and unsanitary conditions; 
(d) The cleansing, purifying, ventilating and disinfecting 
of premises by the owners and occupiers or other 
• persons having the care or ordering thereof; 
(e) Regulating, so far as this Legislature has jurisdiction 
in that behalf, the entry and departure of. boats or 
vessels at the different ports or places in Ontario, 
and the landing of passengers or cargoes from such 
boats or vessels or from railway carriages or cars, 
and the receiving of passengers or cargoes on board 
the same, for the purpose of preventing the spread of 
any communicable disease; 
(/) The safe and speedy interment or disinterment of the 
dead, the transportation of corpses and the conduct 
of funerals; 
(g) The supplying of such medical aid, medicine and other 
articles and accommodation as the Board may deem 
necessary for preventing or mitigating an outbreak 
of any communicable disease; 
(h) The inspection of premises by the local board or medi- 
cal officer of health, or some officer of the Provincial 
Board, and the cleansing, purifying and disinfecting 
anything contained therein when required by the 
local board or officer, at the expense of the owner 
or occupier, and for detaining for this purpose any 
steamboat, vessel, railway carriage or car, or public 
conveyance and anything contained therein and any 
person travelling thereby as may be necessary; 
Regulations. 
Prevention 
and mitiga- 
tion of 
disease. 
Cleansing 
streets and 
premises. 
Removal of 
nuisances, 
etc. 
Cleansing 
and disin- 
fecting 
premises. 
Passenger 
traffic. 
Burials. 
Checking 
communi- 
cable 
diseases. 
Inspection 
for the 
purpose of 
disinfection. (i) Entering and inspecting any premises used for human 
habitation in any locality in xhich conditions exist 
which, in the opinion of the Board, are unsanitary, 
or such as to render the inhabitants specially liable 
to disease, and for directing the alteration or de- 
struction of any such building which is, in the 
opinion of the Board, unfit for human habitation; 
(/) Preventing the overcrowding of premises used for 
human habitation by limiting the number of dwellers 
in such premises and the amount of air space to be 
allowed for each dweller therein; 
(&) Preventing the departure of persons from infected 
localities and for preventing persons or convey- 
ances from passing from one locality to another, 
and for detaining persons or conveyances who 
or which have been exposed to infection for 
inspection or disinfection until the danger of infec- 
tion is past; 
(Z) Regulating the appointment of sanitary inspectors 
to be paid by the municipality in which they act 
for the purpose of enforcing this Act or the 
regulations, or any by-law in force in the muni- 
cipality ; 
(m) The removal or keeping under surveillance of persons 
living in infected localities; 
(n) Authorizing the taking possession by a municipal 
corporation, local board of health, or medical officer 
of health, for any of the purposes of this Act, of any 
land or unoccupied building; 
(o) The sanitary precautions to be taken in health resorts, 
summer resorts and upon boats or other vessels ply- 
ing upon lakes, rivers, streams and other inland 
waters, and for preventing the pollution of such 
waters by the depositing therein of sewage, excreta, 
vegetable, animal or other matter or filth; 
(p) Any other matter which, in the opinion of the Board 
the general health of the inhabitants of Ontario 
or of any locality may require. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 8. 
9. The Provincial Board may, from time to time, declare 
all or any of such Regulations to be in force in any specified 
municipality or locality for such time as the Board may deem 
expedient. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 9. 
The Regulations shall be subject to the approval of 
the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and shall come into force 
and take effect upon publication of such approval and the regu- 
lations approved in the Ontario Gazette. 
9 
Ordering 
alteration 
or destruc- 
tion. 
Preventing 
over- 
crowding. 
Preventing 
travel by 
persons ex- 
posed to 
infection. 
Sanitary- 
inspectors. 
Sur- 
veillance. 
Taking pos- 
session of 
premises. 
Health and 
summer 
resorts and 
inland 
waters. 
General. 
Application 
of regula- 
tions. 
Approval 
and pro- 
mulgation 
of regula- 
tions. To be laid 
before 
Assembly. 
10 
(2) Every Regulation shall be laid before the Assembly 
forthwith if the Assembly is then in session, or if it is not then 
in session within fourteen days after the commencement of the 
next Session. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 10. 
11.- (1) Any order or regulation made by the Provincial 
Board shall, while it is in force in any locality, supersede any 
municipal by-law or other regulation, including the by-law set 
out in Schedule " B," dealing with the same subject matter, and 
so far as any such by-law or other regulation is inconsistent with 
the order or regulation of the Board, such by-law or other regu- 
lation shall be deemed to be suspended. 
(2) Every order or regulation made by the Board shall 
be published in the next report issued by the Board. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 11. 
12. The Chief Officer of Health and every member of the 
Provincial Board, and every officer of the Board shall possess all 
the powers conferred upon a medical officer of health and the 
officers of a local board by this Act or by the Regulations; 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 12. 
13.-(1) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may divide 
the Province for the purposes of this section into not more 
than ten Health Districts, and may appoint a legally qualified 
medical practitioner to be known as the District Officer of Health 
for each such District, but a city, having a population of 50,000 
or over, according to the last census of Canada, shall not be 
included in any such District. 
(2) Every District Officer of Health shall be paid an annual 
salary not exceeding $2,500 and his actual and necessary travel- 
ling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties, 
and such salary and expenses shall be payable in the first instance 
out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund. 
(3) The council of every county forming part of a health 
district shall annually, on or before the 1st clay of February, 
pay to the Treasurer of Ontario such proportion of the salary 
and expenses of the District Officer of Health, based upon the 
population of the county according to the last census of 
Canada and exclusive of the population of any city or separated 
town within the county, as may be certified by the Chief 
Officer. 
(4) Every city having a population of less than 50,000 and 
every town separated from the county for municipal purposes 
shall pay to the Treasurer of Ontario, on or before the 1st day 
of February, such proportion of the salary and expenses of the 
District Officer of Health, based upon the population of such 
city or town according to the last census of Canada, as may be so 
certified. 
i 
By-laws, 
etc., super- 
seded by 
regulations. 
Publication 
of regula- 
tions. 
Powers of 
members of 
Provincial 
Board and 
its officers. 
Health dis- 
tricts and 
district 
officers. 
Salaries. 
County to 
reimburse 
Province. 
Contribu- 
tion by 
cities of 
less than 
50,000 and 
separated 
towns. 11 
(5) In a provisional judicial district in which there is 
no organized municipality the salary and expenses of the 
District Officers of Health shall be borne and paid by the 
Province. 
(6) In a provisional judicial district in which there are one 
or more organized municipalities the salaries and expenses of 
the District Officers of Health shall in the first instance be borne 
and paid by the Province, and the corporations of such muni- 
cipalities shall respectively repay to the Province the same pro- 
portions thereof as would be payable by them if the district were 
a county. 
(7) Every District Officer of Health shall, within his dis- 
trict, enforce this Act and the Regulations and any other Act 
or Regulations respecting the health of the inhabitants of the 
district for their protection from communicable disease, and 
generally do within the district anything which a member of the 
Provincial Board, medical officer of health or sanitary inspector 
is authorized or required to do under this Act. 
(8) Whenever required so to do by the Board, a District 
Officer of Health shall have the same authority and shall per- 
form the same duties in any part of Ontario as he might do in 
the district for which he is appointed. 
(9) Every District Officer of Health shall act under the 
supervision and control of the Board, and shall report to it at 
least monthly, and at such other times as may be required, and 
shall in such report give such information as piay be required 
by the Board or by the Regulations. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s* 13. 
LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH. 
14--Q) There shall be a local board of health for every 
municipality in Ontario. 
(2) In a city, and in every town having a population of 
4,000 or over, according to the enumeration of the assessors 
for the last preceding year, the local board shall consist of the 
mayor, the medical officer of health, and three resident ratepayers 
to be appointed annually by the council at its first meeting in 
every year. 
(3) In a town having a population of less than 4,000 
according to such enumeration, and in every other municipality, 
the local board shall consist of the head of the municipality, the 
medical officer of health, and one resident ratepayer to be 
appointed as provided by subsection 2. 
(4) There shall be a secretary of the local board, and, unless 
otherwise provided by the council, the clerk shall be the sec- 
retary. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 14. 
In pro- 
visional 
judicial 
districts. 
Contribu- 
tions by 
municipality 
in such 
districts. 
Duties and 
powers. 
May act in 
other 
districts. 
To act under 
Provincial 
Board. 
Local 
Boards. 
In cities 
and in 
towns of 
4,000 or 
over. 
In towns of 
less than 
4,000, vil- 
lages and 
townships. 
Secretary. 12 
Corporate 
name. 
15. Every local board, shall be a corporation by the name 
of " The Local Board of Health of the City (or as the case may 
be, inserting the name of the municipality) of 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 15. 
16-(1) A local board, shall hold at least four meetings in 
each year at a time and place to be fixed by resolution of the 
board, and such other meetings as may be prescribed by the 
Regulations, or be required by the Board. 
(2) At the first meeting of a local board in every year, which 
shall be held not later than the first day of February, the board 
shall elect one of its members to be chairman. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 16. 
17. Any member of a local board may call a special meeting 
thereof at any time by giving notice in writing to the secretary 
and to the remaining members of the board. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 17. 
18. The clerk of the municipality shall report to the Pro- 
vincial Board the names and addresses of the members of the 
local board in each year on or before the 1st day of February, 
and he shall so report any change occurring during the 
year in the membership of Hie board. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 18. 
19. Whenever a vacancy occurs in any local board of a city 
or town by the death, resignation or removal of an appointed 
member the council shall, at its first meeting after such vacancy 
occurs, appoint a resident ratepayer to fill the same, and in 
default of such appointment the Provincial Board may appoint 
a resident ratepayer of the municipality to fill-the vacancy. 
2 Geo.,V. c. 58, s. 19. 
20. A majority of the members of a local board shall form a 
-quorum. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 20. 
21. In a township every member of a local board and the 
secretary shall be entitled to the sum of $2 for every attendance 
at a meeting of the board, and his necessary travelling expenses 
in going to and returning from the same, and the amount of 
such remuneration and expenses shall be payable by the treasurer 
of the municipality upon the order of the chairman of the board. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 21. 
22. The treasurer of the municipality shall forthwith upon 
demand, pay the amount of any account for services per- 
formed under the direction of the board and materials and 
supplies furnished, or for any expenditure incurred by the 
board or by the medical officer of health or sanitary inspector 
in carrying out the provisions of this Act or the Regulations, 
after the board has by resolution approved of the account and 
Meetings. 
Chairman. 
Special 
meetings. 
Secretary 
to report 
member- 
ship of 
board to 
Provincial 
Board. 
Vacancies 
in board. 
Quorum. 
Remunera- 
tion and 
payment of 
expenses. 
Payment of 
accounts 
certified by 
board. 13 
a copy of the resolution certified by the chairman and secretary 
has been filed in the office of the treasurer. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 22. 
23.-(1) The proceedings of every local board shall be 
recorded by the secretary in a book to be kept for that purpose. 
(2) The secretary shall annually, on or before the 15th day 
of December, prepare a report of the work done by the board 
during the year, and of the sanitary condition of the muni- 
cipality. 
(3) The report as adopted by the local board shall include 
the annual report of the medical officer of health and shall 
be transmitted to the Secretary of the Provincial Board. 2 Geo. 
V. c. 58, s. 23. 
24. The secretary of every local board shall report weekly 
to the Provincial Board the number of cases and deaths from 
communicable diseases, and the number of deaths from all othei 
causes occurring in the municipality during the preceding week, 
upon a form to be supplied by the Provincial Board. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 24. 
25.-(1) Whenever a local board has authority to direct 
that any matter or thing shall be done by any person, the board 
may also, in default of its being done by the person, direct that 
such matter or thing shall be done at the expense of the person 
in default, and may recover the expense thereof by action in any 
court of competent jurisdiction, or the board may direct that the 
same be added by the clerk of the municipaltiy to the collector's 
roll and collected in like manner as municipal taxes. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 25. 
(2) Where a local board in any city recommends that sani- 
tary conveniences should be installed in any building, and is 
of the opinion that the owner of the premises is unable to pay 
the expense of the same at once, the municipality may install 
suitable sanitary conveniences at the expense of the owner, 
and the board may direct that the cost, including interest at 
five per centum on the deferred payments, be paid by the 
owner in equal successive annual payments extending over a 
period not exceeding five years, and that such annual payments 
be added by the clerk of the municipality to the collector's roll 
and collected in like manner as municipal taxes. 3-4 Geo. V. 
c. 55, s. 1. 
26.-(1) Where an action is brought against a local board 
or any member, officer or employee of a local board by any 
person who has suffered any damage by reason of any act oi 
default on the part of such local board or any member, officer oi 
employee thereof, the corporation of the municipality may 
assume the liability or the defence of the action, and may pay 
any damages or costs for which such board or the member, 
officer or employee is liable in respect of such act or default. 
Recording 
proceedings. 
Annual 
report. 
Local re- 
ports to be 
transmitted 
to Provin- 
cial Board. 
Weekly 
report to 
Provincial 
Board. 
Enforcing 
authority 
of local 
board. 
When local 
board may 
install 
sanitary 
con- 
veniences. 
Payment 
by owner 
in equal 
annual 
instalments. 
Municipal- 
ity may 
assume re- 
sponsibility 
for board or 
employees. 14 
But not for 
contractors. 
(2) In this section the word "employee" shall not include 
a contractor with the local board. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 26. 
27. It shall be the duty of a local board to superintend 
and see to the carrying out of the provisions of this Act 
and of the Regulations, or of any by-law of the municipality, 
and to execute, do and provide all such acts, matters and 
things as are necessary for that purpose. ' 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 27. 
28. Where information is given in writing to the local board 
by any resident householder of the existence of a nuisance or 
unsanitary condition in the municipality, the local board shall 
forthwith cause the complaint to be investigated and all neces- 
sary steps to be taken as provided by this Act to abate or remedy 
the same. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 28. 
29. Where a medical officer of health is of opinion that 
the cleansing and disinfecting of any house or part thereof, 
or of any articles therein likely to retain infection, would 
tend to prevent or check any communicable disease, he shall 
through the sanitary inspector or otherwise, at the cost and 
charge of the municipality, - cleanse and disinfect such house 
or part thereof and the articles therein contained. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 29. 
30. A local board may provide, maintain or hire an ambu- 
lance or carriage for the conveyance of persons suffering from 
disease or accident, and may pay the expense of conveying 
therein any person so suffering to a hospital or other place. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 30. 
31. A local board may provide all necessary apparatus and 
attendance for the disinfection or destruction of bedding, 
clothing or other articles which have become infected, and 
may cause such articles to be disinfected free of charge or may 
make a reasonable charge for disinfecting them. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 31. 
32. A local board may direct the destruction of any furni- 
ture, bedding, clothing, or other articles which have been exposed 
to infection, and mav give compensation therefor. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 32. 
33. Where the order of a local board or medical officer of 
health involves an expenditure of more than $1,000, the person 
against whom the order is made, or any person chargeable with 
such expenditure or any part thereof, may, within four days 
after being served with a copy of such order, appeal therefrom 
to the Judge of the County or District Court who shall have 
power to vary or rescind the order, and any order so varied may 
be enforced by the board in the same manner as an order origin- 
ally made bv the board or a medical officer of health.-2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 33.' 
Duty of 
local board 
as to carry- 
ing out Act 
and Regula- 
tions. 
Complaints 
as to 
nuisances. 
Cleansing 
and disin- 
fecting, 
houses, etc. 
Ambulance. 
Disin- 
fecting 
apparatus. 
Destruction 
of infected 
bedding, etc. 
Appeal to 
county 
judge from 
order of 
Board. 15 
. 34--(!) Where a local board of health has not been estab- 
lished as required by this Act, or where a local board of health 
or any officer thereof has in the opinion of the Minister refused 
or neglected to act with sufficient promptness or efficiency in 
carrying out the provisions of this Act or any order or Regula- 
tion of the Provincial Board, or to take such efficient measures 
as might remove any unsanitary condition or abate any nuisance, 
the Minister may direct the Chief Officer to carry out such 
measures as are authorized by this Act, or by any order or 
Regulation made thereunder. 
(^) The expenses so incurred shall be certified by the min- 
ister, and shall be a debt due by the corporation of the muni- 
cipality, and upon presentation of such certificate the treasurer 
-of the municipality shall pay the same. 
(3) The corporation of the municipality whose treasurer 
shall pay the expenses so incurred as provided by subsection 2, 
may recover the amount so paid by action in any court of com- 
petent jurisdiction against the person certified in writing by 
the chief officer to have been in default, or the council of the 
corporation of the said municipality may direct the amount of 
such expenses to be added by the clerk of the municipality to the 
collector's roll and collected from the person so certified to be in 
default in like manner as municipal taxes. 4 Geo. V. c. 21, s. 46. 
MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. 
35.- (1) The council of every municipality shall appoint a 
legally qualified medical practitioner to be the medical officer of 
health for the municipality, and shall also appoint such number 
of sanitary inspectors for the municipality as may be deemed 
necessary by the local board, and as may be prescribed by the 
Regulations. 
(2) Where the council refuses or neglects to make any of 
such appointments, or to fill any vacancy the Provincial Board 
shall, by registered letter addressed to the clerk of the muni- 
cipality, require the council to make the appointment or to fill 
the vacancy forthwith, and if the council continues in default for 
five days after the receipt of such letter the Lieutenant-Governor 
in Council, upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board, 
mav make the appointment or fill the vacancv. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 35. 
36. Every sanitary inspector appointed by the council shall 
hold office during the pleasure of the council, and if appointed 
by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall hold office until the 
first day of February in the year following that of his appoint- 
ment. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 36. 
37. Every medical officer of health appointed by the council 
shall hold office during good behaviour and his residence in the 
Powers of 
Provincial 
Board on 
default of 
local 
authorities. 
Liability 
for pay- 
ments of 
expenses. 
Recovery 
of expenses 
of carrying 
out orders 
of Provin- 
cial Board. 
Medical 
officers of 
health and 
sanitary 
inspectors, 
appoint- 
ment. 
By 
Lieutenant- 
Governor 
in Council 
in case of 
default. 
Tenure of 
office. 
Dismissal. 16 
municipality, or in an adjoining municipality, and, if appointed 
ay the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, shall hold office until 
the first day of February in the year following that of his 
appointment, and no medical officer of health shall be removed 
from office except for cause and with the approval of the Pro- 
vincial Board. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 37. 
38. The medical officer of health shall be the executive officer 
of the local board, and with the local board shall be responsible 
for the carrying out of the provisions of this Act, and of the 
Regulations, and of the by-laws of the municipality. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 38. 
39. Every medical officer of health, whether appointed by the 
council or by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, shall be paid 
by the municipal corporation a reasonable salary to be 'fixed by 
by-law. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 39. 
40. Sanitary inspectors shall be paid such annual sum as may 
be determined by the council of the municipality. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 40. 
41. Where a vacancy occurs in the office of medical officer of 
health, the council shall forthwith appoint another medical 
officer of health in his stead. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 41. 
42.-(1) There shall be an annual conference of all the 
medical officers of health, and it shall be the duty of every 
medical officer of health to attend the same. 
(2) The expenses of the attendance of each medical officer 
of health shall be borne by the corporation of the municipality, 
and shall be payable in addition to his salary on the certificate of 
the Secretary of the Provincial Board. 
(3) The conference shall be held at such time and place as 
may be determined by the Provincial Board. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 42. 
ISOLATION- HOSPITALS. 
43.-(1) The corporation of a municipality may establish, 
erect and maintain one or more isolation hospitals for the 
reception and care of persons suffering from any communicable 
disease. 
(2) The corporations of two or more adjacent municipalities 
may join in establishing, erecting and maintaining such a hos- 
pital. 
(3) A corporation may borrow money by the issue of deben- 
tures for the purposes mentioned in subsections 1 or 2, and it 
shall no4 \>e necessary to obtain the assent of the electors to any 
by-law 1 rair i n c money for such purpose. 
M.O.H. to 
be executive 
officer of 
board. 
Salaries of 
medical 
officers of 
health. 
Payment of 
sanitary 
inspectors. 
Vacancy in 
office of 
M.O.H. 
Annual 
conference. 
Expenses of 
attendance. 
Time and 
place of 
holding. 
Establish- 
ment. 
Munici- 
palities may 
join in es- 
tablishing. 
Issue of 
debentures. 17 
(4) Debentures issued under this section shall be payable 
within twenty years from the date of the issue thereof. 
(5) Any such hospital may be established in a municipality 
or in one of the municipalities providing for the same or in an 
adjoining municipality. 
(6) The powers conferred by this section shall be subject to 
the provisions of sections 44 to 48, but an isolation hospital 
shall not be established, maintained or kept by a municipal cor- 
poration upon lands in another municipality which were selected, 
purchased or contracted for, or upon which the corporation had 
secured an option before the 1st day of January, 1912, and upon 
which an isolation hospital had not before that date been erected, 
without the consent of the council of the municipality in which 
such lands are situate, and unless such consent had been obtained 
before the 16th day of May, 1912, such land shall not be used 
for that purpose. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 43. 
44. No such isolation hospital and, except as provided by 
The Sanatoria for Consumptives Act, no sanatorium, insti- 
tution or place for the reception, care, or treatment of persons 
suffering from consumption or tuberculosis shall be established 
or maintained or kept within the limits of any municipality 
without permission to be given in the manner hereinafter pro- 
vided. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 44. 
45.- (T) Every municipal corporation and every person de- 
siring to establish, maintain or keep any such isolation hospital, 
sanatorium, institution or place in a municipality, shall make 
application in writing to the local board of health of such muni- 
cipality for permission to do so. 
(2) The local board shall give notice of the application and 
of the meeting at which the same will be considered by advertise- 
ment once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper pub- 
lished in the municipality or, if there is no such newspaper, in 
a newspaper published in an adjoining municipality. 
(3) The local board shall take such application into con- 
sideration at its next general meeting after the last publication 
of such notice, or at a special meeting to be called for the purpose 
within one month after that date. 
(4) The local board shall hear the applicant for such per- 
mission in person or by counsel, and shall hear any person' 
opposed to the granting of such permission, and shall within 
one month thereafter determine by resolution of the board 
whether or not such application shall be granted. 
(5) If the local board determines not to grant such per- 
mission notice in writing of their decision shall forthwith be 
given to the applicant by registered letter, and the applicant- 
may appeal from such decision to a board of appeal to be com- 
When pay- 
able. 
Where to be 
established. 
Subject to 
sections 
44-48. 
Permission 
for estab- 
lishment of 
isolation 
hospitals 
and con- 
sumption 
hospitals. 
Rev. Stat, 
c. 198. 
Application 
to Local 
Board 
Notice of 
meeting. 
Considera- 
tion of 
application. 
Notice. 
Hearing and 
decision. 
Refusal of 
permission. 
Appeal 18 
posed of the head of the municipality, the Sheriff of the county 
or district in which the municipality is situate, and the Secretary 
of the Provincial Board of Health. 
(6) The appeal shall be by notice in writing addressed to 
the Secretary of the Provincial Board, and sent by registered 
post to him within seven days after the receipt of notice of 
the decision of the local board. 
(7) The Secretary of the Provincial Board,shall appoint 
a time and place for the consideration of the appeal, and at 
least seven days' notice of the time and place of hearing the 
appeal shall be given by registered letter addressed to the 
secretary of the local board and to the applicant, and by 
advertisement in a newspaper published in the municipality 
in whicl| it is sought to establish such hospital, sanatorium, 
institution or place of reception, or, if there is no such news-' 
paper, in a newspaper published in the county or district 
town of the county or district in which such municipality is 
situate. 
(8) The board of appeal shall hold a sitting at such time 
and place and shall hear what may be alleged for and against 
such appeal on behalf of the applicant and the local board of 
health or any ratepayer of the municipality who may object 
to the granting of such permission. 
(9) The board of appeal may adjourn the proceedings for 
the purpose of visiting any building or proposed site and 
determining upon its suitability or procuring such further 
information as the board may deem necessary. 
(10) The decision of the board of appeal or a majority of 
the members thereof shall be given in writing and shall be 
final. 
(11) Each of the members of the board of appeal shall be 
entitled to a fee of $10 per day for each day during which 
lie is necessarily engaged in connection with the appeal and 
reasonable and necessary expenses, and the same and any 
other costs and expenses incurred in hearing the appeal 
shall be payable by the appellant upon the written order of 
the Secretary of the Provincial Board to the persons entitled 
thereto. 
(12) Nothing in this section or in section 44 contained 
shall apply to any public general hospital in which persons 
suffering from other diseases as well as persons suffering 
from consumption or tuberculosis are received and treated. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 45. 
46. Every person who erects, establishes or maintains any 
such isolation hospital, sanatorium, institution or place, or 
Notice of 
appeal. 
Notice of 
hearing of 
appeal. 
Hearing of 
appeal. 
View of 
locality. 
Decision of 
board of 
appeal. 
Fees of 
board of 
appeal. 
Sections 43 
and 44 not 
to apply to 
certain 
hospitals. 
Penalty. 19 
who takes part in the superintendence or management thereof, 
until permission has been given as provided by the next pre- 
ceding section, shall incur a penalty not exceeding $25 for 
every day on which such offence is continued. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 46. 
47.-(1) No isolation hospital shall be established by the 
corporation of any municipality until the plans and the pro- 
posed equipment thereof shall have been submitted to and 
approved by the Provincial Board. 
(2) Every municipal corporation establishing such an 
isolation hospital shall from time to time make such altera- 
tions therein and such changes or improvements in the equip- 
ment thereof as may be directed by the Provincial Board. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 47. 
48. Subject to the Regulations the local board of the muni- 
cipality, by the corporation of which an isolation hospital is 
established, shall have the management and control of it, and 
of the conduct of the physicians, nurses, attendants am 
patients. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 48. 
EMERGENCY HOSPITALS. 
49. Where any communicable disease, to which this sec 
tion is by the Regulations made applicable, becomes prevalen: 
in a municipality, and the municipal corporation has no; 
already provided proper hospital accommodation for such 
cases, the medical office? of health of a local board shall imme 
diately provide, at the cost of such corporation, such a tern 
porary hospital, hospital tent, or other place or places of 
reception for the sick and infected as may be deemed best for 
their accommodation and the safety of the inhabitants, and 
for that purpose may,- 
(a) Erect such hospital, hospital tent, or place of recep- 
tion ; 
(&) Contract for the use of any existing hospital, has- 
pital tent, or place of reception; or, 
(c) Enter into an agreement with any person having 
the management of any such hospital, subject to 
the approval of the medical officer of health of 
the local municipality in which such hospital is 
situate, for the reception and care of persons suf- 
fering from such communicable disease, and for 
the payment of such remuneration therefor as 
may be agreed upon. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 49. 
Plans to be 
approved by 
Provincial 
Board. 
Directions 
of Provin- 
cial Board 
as to altera- 
tions, etc. 
Control of 
the local 
board. 
Temporary 
emergency 
hospitals 
in case of 
outbreak of 
disease. 20 
ACQUIRING LAND. 
50.-(1) Where an outbreak of any of the diseases, to 
which the next preceding section applies, occurs or is appre- 
hended, the local board of health may enter upon and take 
and use for the purposes mentioned in that section any land 
or unoccupied building without prior agreement with the 
owner of the same and without his consent, and may retain 
the same for such period as may appear to the board to be 
necessary. 
(2) Written notice, Schedule A., shall, within five days 
after the taking or obtaining possession, be given by the board 
to the clerk of the municipality wherein the land or unoccu- 
pied building is situate; such notice shall be given whether 
possession is taken or obtained with the consent of the 
owner or otherwise. 
(3) Where possession is taken without the consent of the 
owner, the board shall, within five days after taking posses- 
sion, give the like notice to the owner. 
(4) If the owner is' not known, or is not a resident in 
Ontario, or if his residence is unknown to the board, the 
board shall cause the notice to be published in two successive 
issues of some local newspaper having a circulation within 
the municipality where the property is situate, and shall send 
by registered post to the last known address, if any, of the 
owner a copy of the notice, and such publication shall be 
sufficient notice to the owner. 
(5) The owner shall be entitled to compensation from the 
corporation of the municipality wherein the land or building 
is situate, for the use and occupation thereof, including any 
damages arising from such use and occupation, such compen- 
sation to be agreed upon between the council of the muni- 
cipality and the owner; and in case they do not agree, the 
Judge of the County or District Court of the county or dis- 
trict in which the property is situate shall summarily deter- 
mine the amount of the compensation, and the terms of 
payment, in such manner and after giving such notice as 
he sees fit. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 50. 
51. Where any resistance or forcible opposition is offered 
or apprehended to possession being taken of the land or 
building, the Judge of the County or District Court may, 
without notice to any person, issue his warrant to the Sheriff 
of the county or district, or to any other person, as he may 
deem most suitable, requiring him to put and maintain the 
board, its agents or servants in possession, and to put down 
such resistance or opposition, which the Sheriff or other per- 
son, taking with him sufficient assistance, shall accordingly 
do. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 51. 
Occupying 
land in 
case of 
emergency. 
Notice to 
clerk of 
local muni- 
cipality. 
Notice to 
owner 
where not a 
consenting 
party. 
Where 
owner o'r 
his address 
is unknown. 
Compensa- 
tion. 
Order for 
possession. 21 
MEDICAL CARE OF INDIGENTS. 
52.-(1) The corporation of every municipality shall 
enter into an agreement with the medical officer of health or 
some other legally qualified medical practitioner resident in 
the municipality or in a municipality adjacent thereto for 
his medical attendance upon and care of persons suffering 
from the result of injury or disease who, in the opinion of the 
head of the municipality or of its relief officer, if any, are 
unable through poverty to pay for the necessary attendance, 
and who are not cared for in a public or private hospital. 
(2) This section shall not impose any duty on the medical 
officer of health in respect to such cases, unless an agreement 
has been entered into with him, as provided in subsection 1. 
(3) Every such agreement shall provide for fair and rea- 
sonable remuneration for the service rendered. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 52. 
PROVISIONS AS TO COMMUNICABLE DISEASE. 
53.-(1) Whenever any householder knows or has reason 
to suspect that any person within his family or household, 
or boarding or lodging with him, has any communicable dis- 
ease, he shall, within twelve hours, give notice thereof to the 
secretary of the local board or to the medical officer of health. 
(2) The notice may be given to the secretary or to the 
medical officer of health at his office, or by letter addressed to 
either of them and mailed within the time above specified. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 53. 
54. No householder, in whose dwelling there occurs any 
communicable disease, shall permit any person suffering from 
such disease to leave, or any clothing or other property to be 
removed from his house without the consent of the medical 
officer of health, who may forbid such removal or prescribe the 
conditions thereof. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 54. 
55.-(l) Whenever any legally qualified medical practi- 
tioner knows, or has reason to suspect, that any person whom 
he is called upon to visit is infected with any communicable 
disease, he shall within twelve hours give notice thereof to the 
medical officer of health of the municipality in which such 
diseased person is. 
(2) This section shall apply to the medical superintendent 
or person in charge of any general or other hospital in 
which there is known to him to be a patient suffering from 
any communicable disease. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 55. 
Municipal 
corporation 
to provide 
for medical 
attendance 
for indigent 
persons. 
M.O.H. need 
not act 
unless re- 
munerated. 
Agreement 
to provide 
for re- 
muneration. 
Communi- 
cable 
diseases. 
Notice by 
householder. 
How given. 
Removal of 
person or 
clothing 
prohibited. 
Report by 
physician. 
Superin- 
tendents of 
hospitals, 
etc. 22 
Precautions 
against 
spread of 
infection. 
56.- (1) Where any communicable disease is found to 
exist in any municipality, the medical officer of health and 
local board shall use all possible care to prevent the spread 
of infection or contagion by such means as in their judgment 
is most effective for the public safety. 
(2) The medical officer of health or local board, when it is 
considered necessary to prevent the spread of any communi- 
cable disease, may direct that any school or seminary of 
learning, or any church or public hall or other place used for 
public gatherings or entertainment in the municipality shall 
be closed, and may prohibit all public assemblies in the muni- 
cipality; and no such school, seminary, church, hall or public 
place shall be kept open after such direction for the admis- 
sion of the public, nor re-opened without the permission of 
the medical officer of health. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 56. 
57. The medical officer of health, or the local board, or a 
committee thereof, shall isolate any person having any com- 
municable disease, to which this section is by the Regulations 
made applicable, and shall forthwith cause to be posted up 
on or near the door of the house or dwelling, in which any 
such person is, a notice stating that such disease is within 
the house or dwelling. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 57. 
58.- (1) If any person coming from abroad, or residing 
in any municipality within Ontario, is infected, or has 
recently been infected with, or exposed to, any communicable 
disease to which this section is by the Regulations made 
applicable, the medical officer of health or local board shall 
make effective provision for the public safety by removing 
such person to a separate house, or by otherwise isolating 
aim, and by providing medical attendance, medicine, nurses 
and other assistance and necessaries for him. 
(2) The corporation of the municipality shall be entitled 
to recover from such person the amount expended in provid- 
ng such medical attendance, medicine, nurses and other 
assistance and necessaries for him, but not the expenditure 
ncurred in providing a separate house or in otherwise isolating 
aim. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 58. 
59. Where, owing to the refusal or neglect of the medical 
officer of health, the local board or the corporation of any muni- 
cipality, any communicable disease is brought into another muni- 
cipality, the corporation of which incurs expense in preventing 
the spread of such communicable disease, the corporation of the 
municipality in default shall pay to the corporation of the muni- 
cipality incurring such expense the whole amount thereof, and 
the same shall be recoverable as a debt in any court of competent 
jurisdiction. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 59. 
Closing 
schools, 
churches, 
etc. 
Isolation of 
patient. 
Of infected 
persons. 
Recovery of 
expenses. 
Recovery of 
expense 
incurred 
through 
neglect or 
refusal to 
carry out 
Act. 23 
60. No person suffering from any communicable disease, 
to which this section is by the Regulations made applicable, 
shall be removed at any time except by permission and under 
direction of the medical officer of health, nor shall any occu- 
pant of any house in which there exists any such communic- 
able disease change his residence to any other place without 
the consent of the medical officer of health, or without com- 
plying with such conditions as he may prescribe. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 60. 
61. The medical officer of health, or a legally qualified 
medical practitioner appointed by him in writing for that 
purpose, may enter in and upon any house, out-house or 
premises, in the day time, for the purpose of making enquiry 
and examination with respect to the state of health of any 
person therein, and cause any person found therein, who is 
infected with any communicable disease, to be removed to a 
hospital or some other proper place. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 61. 
62.-(1) Where there is any reason to suspect that any 
person suffering from a communicable disease to which this 
section is by the Regulations made applicable is in or upon 
any railway car, street railway car, steamboat, vessel, stage, 
or other conveyance, the medical officer of health or sanitary 
inspector of the municipality, or any member of the local 
board, may enter such conveyance and cause such person to 
be removed therefrom, and may detain the conveyance until 
it is properly disinfected; or such officer or member may, if 
he thinks fit, remain on, or in, or re-enter and remain on or 
in such conveyance, with any assistance he may require, for 
the purpose of disinfecting it; and his authority shall con- 
tinue in respect of such person and conveyance notwithstand- 
ing that the conveyance is taken into another municipality. 
(2) The expense incurred for medical attendance, care, 
nursing, maintenance and all costs for disinfection shall be 
paid by the owner of the conveyance in which such person 
is found. 
(3) Any legally qualified medical practitioner or sanitary 
inspector authorized by the Provincial Board shall have the 
same authority as a medical officer of health under this section. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 62. 
63. Where any communicable disease is reported or dis- 
covered in a dwelling house or out-house occupied as a dwell- 
ing, and such house or out-house is in a filthy and neglected 
state, the medical officer of health may, at the expense of the 
corporation of the municipality, compel the inhabitants of 
such dwelling house or out-house to remove therefrom, and 
may place them in sheds or tents, or other proper shelter, in 
some more suitable situation, until measures can be taken, 
under the direction and at the expense of the municipal cor- 
Removal of 
patients. 
Power to 
enter 
premises. 
Entering 
and disin- 
fecting 
public con- 
veyances. 
Payment by 
owner of 
conveyance. 
Authority 
given by 
Provincial 
Board. 
Removal of 
persons 
from 
unsanitary 
dwellings. 24 
poration, for the immediate cleansing, ventilation, purifica- 
tion and disinfection of such dwelling house or out-house. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 63. 
64. No person recovering from any communicable disease, 
to which this section is by the Regulations made applicable, 
and no nurse who has been in attendance on any such person, 
shall leave the premises or expose himself in any public place, 
street, shop, inn or public conveyance until he has received 
from the medical officer of health a certificate that in his 
opinoin suqh person or nurse has taken such precautions as 
to his person, clothing and all other things which he pro- 
poses to bring from the premises as are necessary to insure 
the immunity from infection of other persons with whom such 
person or nurse may come in contact. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s.,64. 
65. Every such person and nurse shall adopt for the disin- 
fection and disposal of execreta, and for the disinfection of 
utensils, bedding, clothing and other things which have been 
exposed to infection, such measures as may be prescribed by 
the Regulations or by the medical officer of health. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 56, s. 65. 
66. No person suffering from or having recently recov- 
ered from any communicable disease, to which this section 
is by the Regulations made applicable, shall mingle with the 
general public, and no person having access to any such 
person, except the attending physician and clergyman, shall 
do so, until such sanitary precautions as may be prescribed 
by the medical officer of health have been complied with. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 66. 
67.-(l) No person suffering from, or having recently 
recovered from any communicable disease, to which this sec- 
tion is by the Regulations made applicable, shall expose him- 
self, nor shall any person expose any one under his charge, 
who is so suffering from any such disease, in any railway car, 
street railway car, steamboat, vessel, stage or other convey- 
ance, without having previously notified the owner or person 
in charge of such conveyance of the fact of his having such 
disease. 
(2) The owner or person in charge of any such convey- 
ance shall not, after the entry of any infected person into his 
conveyance, allow any other person to enter it, without hav- 
ing sufficiently disinfected it under the direction of the medi- 
cal officer of health or sanitary inspector. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 67. 
68. No person shall give, lend, transmit, sell or expose 
any bedding, clothing, or other article likely to convey any 
communicable disease, without having first taken such pre- 
cautions as the medical officer of health may direct for 
Patients 
and nurses. 
Precautions 
as to 
disinfection. 
Measures 
prescribed 
by Provin- 
cial Board. 
Sanitary 
precautions 
before 
mingling 
with public. 
Notice to be 
given before 
using public 
conveyance. 
Conveyance 
to be dis- 
infected. 
Bedding, 
clothing, 
etc. 25 
removing all danger of communicating such disease to others. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 68. 
69. No person shall let or hire, or permit to be occupied, 
any house or room in a house in which any communicable 
disease has recently existed without having caused the house 
and permises used in connection therewith to be disinfected 
to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health, and, for 
the purposes of this section, the keeper of an inn or house 
for the reception of lodgers shall be deemed to let for hire 
part of a house to any person admitted as a guest into such 
inn or house. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 69. 
70. No person letting for hire, or showing for the purpose 
of letting for hire any house or part of a house, on being 
questioned by any person, negotiating for the hire of such 
house, or part of a house, as to the fact of there previously 
having been therein any person, animal or thing suffering 
from or liable to be infected by any communicable disease, 
shall knowingly make a false answer to such question. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 70. 
71.-(1) No common carrier shall knowingly accept for 
transportation or carry within Ontario, except under and 
subject to the Regulations, any person suffering from any 
communicable disease, to which this section is by the Regula-; 
tions made applicable, or any infected article or articles of 
clothing, bedding or other property whatsoever. 
(2) No carrier shall knowingly accept for transportation 
or carry within Ontario the body of any person who has 
died of any communicable disease, except under and subject 
to the Regulations. 
(3) Every person contravening the provisions of subsec- 
tion 1 or of subsection 2 shall incur a penalty of $100. 2 Geo. 
V. c. 58, s. 71. 
72.-(l) Whenever a communicable disease exists in any 
house or household in which there is a person who is a student 
or pupil in, or a teacher, or other person employed in any 
capacity in or abotit a university, college, school or other institu- 
tion of learning, the householder shall, within twelve hours 
after the time such disease is known to exist, notify the prin- 
cipal, superintendent, head teacher or other person in charge 
of such institution, and also the medical officer of health, of 
the existence of such disease; and the person suffering there- 
from shall not attend or be employed at such institution until 
a certificate has been obtained from, the medical officer of health 
that he may safely do so. 
(2) Whenever a local board of health, or any of its officers 
or members, are aware of the existence in any house of any 
Disinfection 
of houses, 
etc. 
False state- 
ments of 
persons 
renting or 
showing- 
houses. 
Transpor- 
tation of 
infected 
persons. 
Corpses. 
Penalty. 
School 
attendance 
from houses 
in which 
communi- 
cable dis- 
ease exists. 
Duty of 
local board 
and teacher. 26 
communicable disease, they shall at once notify the principal, 
superintendent, head teacher or other person in charge of 
any university, college, school or other institution of learn- 
ing at which any member of the household is in attendance, 
either as a student or pupil, or in or about which he is 
employed as a teacher, or in any other capacity, and none of 
such last mentioned persons shall after such notice be per- 
mitted to attend, or be employed or be in or about such 
institution, until the certificate mentioned in subsection 1 is 
obtained and presented. 
(3) Whenever a professor, lecturer, instructor or teacher 
in any such institution of learning has reason to suspect that 
any other professor, lecturer, instructor or teacher in, or any 
student or pupil of, or any person employed in or about, such 
institution, is suffering from a communicable disease, or that 
there exists in any household of which he is a member any 
communicable disease, such first mentioned person shall 
notify the medical officer of health thereof, and shall not per- 
mit the attendance of the person suffering from such dis- 
ease if under his direction or control until the medical 
officer of health certifies that such attendance may be safely 
allowed. 
(4) No student or pupil having suffered from a communic- 
able disease shall be allowed to attend any such institution 
of learning within the minimum period prescribed by the 
Regulations. 
(5) Whenever a communicable disease exists in any board- 
ing school or other institution in which pupils are received 
for tuition, and boarded or lodged, the head of the institu- 
tion, or the person in charge thereof, shall immediately isolate 
the person suffering from such disease and any person in 
attendance upon him, and, within twelve hours after the 
disease is known to exist, shall notify the medical officer of 
health, and shall not permit the person so suffering or any 
person in attendance upon him to mingle with the other 
pupils or inmates of the institution until the medical officer 
of health has certified that he may safely do so. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 72. 
NUISANCES. 
Removal, Abatement, etc. 
73. Any condition existing in any locality which is or 
may become injurious or dangerous to health or prevent or 
hinder in any manner the suppression of disease shall be 
deemed a nuisance within the meaning of this Act. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 73. ' 
74. Without restricting the general application of the 
next preceding section and for greater particularity it is 
Teacher to 
give notice 
of cases in 
homes of 
pupils. 
Pupil not 
to attend 
within 
minimum 
time fixed 
by regula- 
tions. 
Boarding 
schools. 
Nuisances, 
what to be 
deemed. 
Particular 
nuisances. 27 
declared that the following shall be deemed nuisances within 
I he meaning of this Act: 
(a) Any premises or part thereof so constructed or ini 
such a state as to be injurious or dangerous to< 
health; 
(&) Any street, pool, ditch, gutter, water-course, sink,< 
cistern, water or earth closet, privy, urinal, cess-J 
pool, drain, dung pit or ash pit, so foul or in< 
such a state, or so situated as to be injurious or 
dangerous to health; 
(c) Any well, spring or other water supply injurious- 
or dangerous to health; 1 
(d) Any stable, byre or other building in which animals; 
are kept in such a manner or in such numbers as1 
to be injurious or dangerous to health; 
(e) Any accumulation or deposit of refuse, wherever, 
situate, which is injurious or dangerous to healthy 
, (/) Any deposit of offensive matter, refuse, offal or tnan- I 
ure contained in uncovered trucks or waggons at: 
any station or siding or elsewhere so as to be 
injurious or dangerous to health; 
(g) Any work, manufactory, trade or business so situ- 
ated as to be injurious or dangerous to health; 
(7t) Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to 
be injurious or dangerous to the health of the 
inmates or in which insufficient airspace is allowed 
for each inmate to comply with the Regulations; 
(i) Any school house, public or private, factory, shop 
or other building, which is not in a cleanly state 
or free from effluvia arising from any drain, 
privy, water or earth closet, urinal or other nuis- 
ance; or is not veptilated in such a manner as to 
render harmless so far as practicable any gases, 
vapours, dust or other impurities generated there- 
in which are injurious or dangerous to' health, 
or is so overcrowded as to be injurious or dan- 
gerous to the health of those employed or being 
therein; 
(;) Any fireplace or furnace the fires of which do not, 
as far as practicable, consume the smoke arising 
from the combustible matter used therein for 
working engines, or used in any mill, factory, 
dye-house, brewery, bakehouse or gas works, or 
in any manufacturing or trade process whatever; 
Premises in 
dangerous 
condition. 
Streets, pits, 
etc., in 
dangerous 
condition. 
Water 
supply. 
Stables, 
byres, etc. 
Accumula- 
tions of 
refuse. 
Offensive 
matter in 
uncovered 
trucks or 
wagons. 
.Trades 
situated so 
as to be 
dangerous. 
Over- 
crowded 
houses. 
'Defective 
drainage or 
ventilation 
or over- 
crowding in 
schools and 
factories. 
Smoke from 
'furnaces. 28 
From 
chimneys. 
(k) Any chimney emitting smoke in such quantity as to 
be injurious or dangerous to health; 
(0 Any burial ground, cemetery or other place of sepul- 
ture so located or so crowded or otherwise so arranged 
or managed as to be offensive or injurious or dan- 
gerous to health. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 74. 
75. Every medical officer of health shall see that the 
municipality or locality for which he is appointed is regularly 
inspected in order to prevent nuisances or to abate any existing 
nuisance. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 75. 
76. The medical officer of health or the sanitary inspector 
of a municipality or a member of a local board may, in the 
day time, as often as he thinks necessary, enter into and upon 
and examine any premises, and if upon such examination 
he finds that the premises are in a filthy or unclean state, or 
that any matter or thing is there which, in his opinion, may 
endanger the public health, he may order the owner or occu- 
pant of the premises to cleanse the same and to remove or 
destroy what is so found therein. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 76. 
77. Where the owner of any premises wherein a nuisance 
exists is unknown or does not reside in the municipality, 
and the premises are unoccupied or the occupant is unable to 
remove the nuisance, the medical officer of health or the local 
board may, without previous notice, immediately cause the 
nuisance to be abated. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 77. 
i 
78. Where under the provisions of this Act, or of the 
Regulations, or of any municipal by-law, a local board or 
any medical officer of health or sanitary inspector removes 
anything which is likely to be injurious to or to become or 
cause or is a nuisance, such thing shall be subject to the dis- 
position of the local board, or, if the officer is acting under a 
by-law of a municipal council, shall be subject to the disposi- 
tion of the council, and the owner of such thing shall have 
no claim in respect thereof. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 78. 
79.-(l) Wherever the local board of health or medical 
officer , of health is satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, the 
medical officer of health shall serve a notice on the person by 
whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises or con- 
tinues, or, if such person cannot be found, on the owner or 
occupier of the premises on which the nuisance exists or from 
which the same arises, requiring him to abate the same within 
a time to be specified in the notice, and to execute such 
works and do such things as may be necessary for that pur- 
pose. 
(2) Where the nuisance arises from the want or the defec- 
tive construction of any structural convenience, or where 
there is no occupier of the premises, notice shall be served 
on the owner. 
Offensive or 
dangerous 
burying 
ground. 
Inspection 
of munici- 
pality. 
Examina- 
tion of 
premises 
and order 
for cleans- 
ing. 
Where 
owner 
unknown 
or non- 
resident. 
Disposition 
of articles 
removed. 
Owner to 
have no 
claims. 
Service of 
notice 
requiring 
abatement 
of nuisance. 
Service on 
owner when 
required. 29 
(3) Where the person causing the nuisance cannot be 
found, and it is clear that the nuisance does not arise or con- 
tinue by the act or default of the owner or occupier of the 
premises, and it is therefore improper that such owner or 
occupier should be required to abate it, the local board shall 
abate the nuisance at the expense of the corporation of the 
municipality. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 79. 
80. Where a nuisance appears to be wholly or partially 
caused by some act or default । committed or taking place 
without the municipality, the local board of the municipality 
affected thereby shall cause an inspection to be made, and 
when necessary shall take or cause to be taken against the 
person by whose act or default the nuisance is caused in 
whole or in part any proceedings in relation to nuisances by 
this Act authorized with the same incidents and conse- 
quences as if such act or default were committed or took 
place wholly within its jurisdiction. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 80. 
81.-(1) If, on investigation by the local board, any nui- 
sance is found to exist, and if after the board has required the 
removal or abatement of the same within a specified time, 
the board finds that default in removal or abatement has 
been made, and the case appears to the local board to involve 
the expenditure or loss of a considerable sum of money, or 
serious interference with any trade or industry, or other con- 
siderations of difficulty, the Provincial Board at the request 
of the local board may investigate and report upon the 
case. 
(2) If the report of the Provincial Board recommends the 
removal or abatement of the nuisance, the local board or any 
ratepayer residing in the municipality, or within a mile 
thereof, may apply to a Judge of the Supreme Court for an 
order for the removal or abatement of the nuisance, and to 
restrain the proprietors of any such industry from carrying 
on the same until the nuisance has been abated to the satisfac- 
tion of the Provincial Board; and the Judge may make such 
order upon the report of the Provincial Board or upon such 
further evidence as he may deem meet. 
(3) The Judges' Orders Enforcement Act shall apply to 
every order made by a Judge under this section. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 81. 
Expenses in Respect of Abatement of Nuisance. 
82.-(1) Where the owner or occupier of any premises in 
which a nuisance exists fails, after due notice, to abate the 
same, the medical officer of health or sanitary inspector may 
enter upon the premises and take such steps as may be neces- 
sary to abate the nuisance. 
Where 
owner and 
occupant 
not in fault. 
Where 
cause of 
nuisance 
out of muni- 
cipality. 
Where con- 
sideration 
of difficulty 
involved. 
Application 
to Judge of 
Supreme 
Court. 
Application 
of Rev. Stat, 
c. 79. 
Where 
owner or 
occupier 
neglects 
to abate. (2) All reasonable costs and expenses incurred in abating 
a nuisance shall be deemed to be money paid for the use and 
at the request of the person by whose act, default or suf- 
ferance the nuisance was caused, but shall be recoverable from 
both the owner and the occupier for the time being of the 
premises. 
(3) If the costs and expenses incurred in abating the nuis- 
ance are not paid by the owner or occupier within one month 
after a demand of payment, a statement of the amount of 
the costs and expenses, and of the person by whom and the 
premises in respect of which the same are payable, shall be 
delivered to the clerk of the municipality who shall insert 
the amount in the collector's roll, and the same may be col- 
lected in like manner as municipal taxes. 
(4) The occupier for the time being of the premises may 
deduct any money recovered or collected from him which, as 
between him and the owner, the latter ought to pay, our of 
the rent then due or from time to time becoming due in 
respect of the premises. 
(5) An occupier shall not be required to pay any further 
sum than the amount of rent for the time being due from 
him, or which, after demand of such costs or expenses, and 
after notice not to pay his landlord any rent without first 
deducting the amount of such costs or expenses, becomes pay- 
able by such occupier, unless he refuses truly to disclose the 
amount of his rent and the name and address of the person 
to whom it is payable; and the burden of proof that the sum 
demanded from such occupier is greater than the rent due 
by him at the time of such notice, or which has since accrued, 
shall be on such occupier. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 82. 
When Application to Supreme Court Necessary. 
83.-(1) No determination or order of the Provincial 
Board or of a local board for the removal or abatement of a 
nuisance shall be enforced except by order of a Judge of the 
Supreme Court where such removal or abatement involves the 
loss or destruction of property to the value of $2,000 or 
upwards. 
(2) The order may be made upon the application of the 
Provincial Board or of the local board. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 83. 
OFFENSIVE TRADES. 
84.- (1) Any person who without the consent of the local 
board or of the municipal council establishes any of the fol- 
lowing trades or businesses or manufactures- 
Blood boiling, 
Bone boiling, 
Pefining coal oil, 
30 
Recovery of 
expenses. 
Collection 
of expenses 
as taxes. 
Occupier's 
right to 
deduct pay- 
ment from 
rent. 
Limit of 
amount re- 
coverable 
from 
occupier. 
Where ap- 
plication in 
respect of 
nuisance 
must be to 
Supreme 
Court. 
Application 
for order. 
Restriction 
on estab- 
lishment of 
offensive 
trades. 31 
Extracting oil from fish, 
Storing hides, 
Soap boiling, 
Tallow melting, 
Tripe boiling, 
Slaughtering animals, 
Tanning hides or skins, 
Manufacturing gas, 
Manufacturing glue, 
Fertilizers from dead animals, from human or animal 
waste, or 
Any other trade, business or manufacture which is or 
may become offensive, or which is by the Regula- 
tions declared to be a noxious or offensive trade, 
business or manufacture 
shall incur a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $250, 
in respect of the establishment thereof, and a penalty of not 
less than $20 for every day on which after notice in writing 
by the local board, or an officer thereof, to desist, such busi- 
ness, trade or manufacture is carried on, whether there has 
or has not been any conviction in respect of the establishment 
thereof. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 84. 
85.- (1) Any person who keeps or stores any rags, bones, 
junk, bottles, scrap iron or other metals, or other refuse within 
any municipality, except on premises approved of by the 
medical officer of health, shall incur a penalty of not less 
than $10 nor more than $50, and the continuance of the 
offence for each week after conviction shall be considered a 
separate offence. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 85. 
(2) In the event of such approval being refused by the 
medical officer of health, the applicant shall have the right of 
appeal from such refusal to the Chief Officer of Health for 
Ontario, who shall examine or cause the premises to be ex- 
amined, and make such enquiries as he may -consider desirable, 
and grant or refuse such approval, or make such order or 
direction as he may deem proper, which determination shall be 
final. 5 Geo. V. c. 40, s. 1. 
INSPECTION OF LODGING HOUSES, LAUNDRIES, ETC. 
86.-(1) The medical officer of health or any sanitary 
inspector acting under his instructions may, at any time of 
the day or night, as often as he thinks necessary, enter into 
a lodging house, tenement where rooms are rented, or a laun- 
dry where the owner or employees reside upon the premises, 
or other building where he has reason to suspect that the 
same are overcrowded or occupied by more persons than is 
reasonably safe for the health of the occupants. 
Penalty. 
Storing 
rags, bones, 
etc 
Penalty. 
Appeal to 
chief officer 
of health as 
to storage 
of rags, etc. 
Medical 
officer of 
health may 
enter and 
examine 
lodging 
houses, 
tenements 
and 
laundries. 32 
When found 
over- 
crowded or 
unsanitary. 
(2) If upon, such examination it is found that the premises 
are occupied by more persons than is reasonably safe for the 
health of the occupants, and that the sleeping rooms are 
such that 600 cubic feet of air space cannot be provided for 
each occupant, or that the rooms or premises occupied by them 
are in a filthy or unclean state, or that any matter or thing 
is there which, in the opinion of the medical officer of health, 
founded on his own inspection or on the report of the sani- 
tary inspector, may endanger the public health or the health 
of the occupants, the medical officer of health may order the 
owner or occupant to remove the inmates from the premises, 
or to remove that which causes the premises to be filthy or 
unclean, and put the rooms in a condition fit for human 
habitation. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 86; 3-4 Geo. V. c. 55, s. 2. 
87. Where, in the opinion of the medical officer of health, 
any premises are so situated, so constructed or so improperly 
lighted, or in any other respect of such a character or in 
such a condition as to be unfit for human habitation or 
dangerous to health, he may cause such premises to be 
closed, and may affix a notice thereon in a prominent place 
setting forth the reason for such closing, and that the 
premises are closed by order of the medical officer of health; 
and no person shall pull down or deface such notice or use 
the premises closed as a dwelling or cause the same to be so 
used. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 87. 
INSPECTION OF DAIRIES, CHEESE FACTORIES, DAIRY FARMS, ETC. 
88. The medical officer of health may make or cause to be 
made by a veterinary surgeon or other competent person a 
periodical inspection of all dairies, cheese factories, and 
creameries, dairy farms and slaughter-houses, and if upon 
such examination he finds that the premises are in a filthy or 
unclean state, or that any matter or thing is there which, in 
his opinion, may be injurious to or endanger the public 
health, he may order the owner or occupant of the premises 
to cleanse the same or to remove any such-matter or thing. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 88. 
INSTALLATION OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY. 
89.- (1) Whenever the council o f any municipality or 
any municipal board or commission or any company or per- 
son contemplates the establishment of, or the extension of, or 
any change in an existing waterworks system, they shall sub- 
mit the plans, specifications and an engineer's report of the 
water supply and the works «to be undertaken, together with 
such other information as may be deemed necessary to the 
Provincial Board, and no such works shall be undertaken or 
proceeded with until the source of supply and the proposed 
works have been approved by the Board. 
Placarding 
premises. 
Inspection 
of dairies, 
etc., and 
slaughter- 
houses. 
Power to 
order 
cleansing. 
Plans to be 
submitted 
to Provin- 
cial Board. 33 
(2) The Board upon" the application for such approval, 
may direct such changes to be made in the source of supply 
or in the plans submitted as it may deem necessary in the 
public interest. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 89. 
90. The Provincial Board shall have the general super- 
vision of all springs, wells, ponds, lakes, streams or rivers 
used as a source for a public water supply with reference to 
their purity, together with the waters feeding the same, and 
shall examine the same from time to time when the necessity 
for such examination arises, and inquire what, if any, pollu- 
tion exists and the causes thereof. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 90. 
91.- (1) No garbage, excreta, manure, vegetable or ani- 
mal matter or filth shall be discharged into or be deposited in 
any of the lakes, rivers, streams or other waters in Ontario or 
on the shores or banks thereof. 
(2) The owners and officers of boats and other vessels 
plying upon any such lake, river, stream or other water 
shall so dispose of the garbage, excreta, manure, vegetable 
or animal matter or filth upon such boats or vessels as not 
to create a nuisance or enter or pollute such lake, river, stream 
or other water. 
(3) Residents of a health resort or summer resort shall 
so dispose of garbage, excreta, manure, vegetable or animal 
matter or filth as not to create a nuisance or permit of its 
gaining entrance to or polluting any such lake, river, stream 
or other water. 
(4) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of 
this section shall incur a penalty not exceeding $100. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 91. 
92. Water boards, water companies, water commissioners 
and the proper officers of any municipal corporation making 
use as a source of water supply of any well or any other 
source within or partly within Ontario, and distributing the 
waters thereof for public, domestic or general uses, shall, 
from time to time, and whenever required by the Provincial 
Board, make returns to the Board upon forms to be furnished 
by it of such matters as may be required by the Board and 
called for by such forms, and any such water board, water 
company, water commissioner or officer who shall, for the 
space of thirty days after being furnished with such forms, 
fail or neglect to make any such reports required shall incur 
a penalty of $100. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 92. 
93.-(1) No sewage, drainage, domestic or factory refuse,! 
excremental or other polluting matter of any kind, which, 
either by itself or in connection with other matter, corrupts 
or impairs or may corrupt or impair the quality of the 
Board may 
'direct 
•change in 
plans. 
Provincial 
Board to 
have super- 
vision of 
streams, etc. 
Depositing 
filth, eitc., in 
Provincial 
waters. 
Disposal of 
offensive 
matter on 
boats. 
Residents 
of summer 
resorts. 
Penalty. 
Returns 
from water- 
works. 
Polluting 
water 
supply. 34 
water of any source of public water supply for domestic 
use in any municipality, or which renders or may render 
such water injurious to health, shall be placed in or dis- 
charged into the waters, or placed or deposited upon the ice 
of any such source of water supply, or be placed or suf- 
fered to remain upon the bank or shore of any such source 
of water supply near the place from which the supply of 
water for domestic use is obtained, nor within such distance 
thereof as may be considered unsafe by the Provincial Board, 
after an examination thereof by a member or officer of the 
Board. 
(2) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions 
of subsection 1 shall incur a penalty of not more than $100 
for each offence, and each week's continuance after notice 
by the Provincial Board or local board to discontinue the 
offence shall constitute a separate offence. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 93. 
SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND SEWA.GE. 
94.-(l) Whenever the construction of a common sewer 
or of a system of sewerage, or an extension of the same, is 
contemplated by the council of any municipality, the council 
shall first submit the plans and specifications of the work 
together with such other information as may be deemed 
necessary by the Provincial Board, for its approval. 
(2) The Board shall inquire into and report upon such 
sewer or system of sewerage, as to whether the same is cal- 
culated to meet the sanitary requirements of the inhabitants 
of the municipality, and as to whether such sewer or system 
of sewerage is likely to prove prejudicial to the health of the 
inhabitants of the municipality or of any other municipality 
liable to be affected thereby. 
(3) The Board may make any suggestion or amendment 
of the plans and specifications or may impose any condition 
with regard to the construction of such sewer or system of 
sewerage or the disposal of sewage therefrom as may be 
deemed necessary or advisable in the public interest. 
(4) The construction of any common sewer or system of 
1 sewerage shall not be proceeded with until reported upon 
and approved by the Board, and no change in the construc- 
tion thereof or in the disposal of sewage therefrom shall be 
made without the previous approval of the Board. 
(54 The Board may from time to time modify or alter the 
terms and conditions as to the disposal of sewage imposed by 
it, and the report or decision of the Board shall be final, and 
it shall be the duty of the municipal corporation and the 
officers thereof to give effect thereto. 
Penalty. 
Sewerage 
system. 
Plans to be 
submitted. 
Board to 
Inquire and 
report. 
Amendment 
of plans at 
instance of 
Board. 
Work not to 
be proceeded 
with until 
approved 
by Board. 
Modifica- 
tion, etc., 
of order. 35 
(6) Whenever required by the Board, the clerk of every 
municipal corporation having, using, owning, leasing or con- 
trolling a sewerage system or sewage disposal plant shall 
make returns to the Board upon forms to be furnished by it 
of such matters as may be required by the Board and called 
for by such forms, and in case of default the clerk shall incur 
a penalty of $100. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 94. 
(7) The sewerage system or sewage disposal plant of an 
urban municipality may, with the approval of the Provincial 
Board, be continued into, or through, or be situate in an adjoin- 
ing township municipality, but before approving of any such 
work the Provincial Board shall give notice to the clerk of the 
township and shall hear and consider any objections which 
the council of the township or the residents therein may make 
to the location of the works. 
(8) When the approval of the Provincial Board has been 
obtained the corporation of the urban municipality may enter 
upon, take and use such lands in the township as may be 
necessary, and for that purpose shall have and may exercise 
the same powers within the township as it has within its own 
municipality, and paragraph 56 of section 399 of The Muni- 
cipal Act and clauses a and b following the said paragraph 
shall not apply. 4 Geo. V. c. 21, s. 47. 
BY-LAWS FOR BORROWING FOR WATERWORKS AND SEWERAGE. 
95-(1) No by-law shall be passed for raising money for 
any of the purposes mentioned in sections 89 and 94 until 
the. proposed water supply or sewerage system, as the case 
may be, has been approved by the Provincial Board of Health, 
and such approval has been certified under the hand of the 
chairman and secretary of the Board. 
(2) The by-law shall recite the approval of the Board. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 95. 
4 
96.-(l) Where the Provincial Board reports in writing 
that it is of opinion that it is necessary in the interest of the 
public health that a waterworks system or an adequate water 
purification plant, or a sewer or a sewerage system, or an 
adequate sewage treatment plant should be established or con- 
tinued, or that any existing waterworks system, water puri- 
fication plant, sewer or sewerage system, or sewage treatment 
plant should be improved, extended, enlarged, altered, re- 
newed or replaced, it shall not be necessary to obtain the 
assent of the electors to any by-law for incurring a debt for 
any of such purposes. 
Annual 
report to 
be sent to 
Provincial 
Board. 
Sewerage 
works or 
sewage 
disposal 
works of 
city in 
adjoining 
township. 
Powers of 
urban 
municipal- 
ity after 
approval of 
Provincial 
Board. 
Rev. Stat, 
c. 192. 
By-law for 
issue of 
debentures 
not to be 
passed until 
approval of 
Board. 
By-law to 
recite 
approval. 
Assent of 
electors not 
required. 36 
Council on 
report of 
Provincial 
Board 
to pass by- 
laws and 
carry out 
works. 
(2) Where the Provincial Board has reported as provided 
by subsection 1, the council of a municipality shall forthwith 
pass all necessary by-laws for the establishment of the works 
reported upon and the corporation of the municipality shall 
immediately commence the work and carry the same to com- 
pletion without unnecessary delay. 3-4 Geo. V. c. 55, s. 3. 
(3) The by-law shall not be finally passed until the ap- 
proval of the Board has been obtained to the work to be done 
as hereinbefore provided, and shall recite such approval. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 96 (2). 
97. Every waterworks system, water purification plant, 
sewer or sewerage system and sewage treatment plant estab- 
lished for public use shall at all times be maintained and kept 
in repair as may be necessary for the protection of the public 
health and as may be directed by any special order of the 
Provincial Board or by the Regulations 3-4 Geo. V. c. 55, 
s. 4, part. 
98. Any municipal corporation or body or person refus- 
ing or neglecting to carry out the provisions of either of the 
two next preceding sections, after notice from the Provincial 
Board so to do, shall incur a penalty of $100 for every day 
upon which such default continues. 3-4 Geo. V. c. 55, s, 4, 
part. 
ICE SUPPLIES. 
99.-(l) The local board of a municipality in which sup- 
plies of ice are obtained, sold and stored may adopt such 
regulations regarding the source of supply and the place of 
storage of the same as are, in its opinion, best adapted to 
secure the purity of the ice and prevent injury to the public 
health, and for the supervision of ice supplies, whether 
obtained within or without the municipality, whenever the ice 
is intended for use within the municipality in which the 
board has jurisdiction. 
(2) No ice shall be cut from any lake, river, stream, pond, 
or other water for the purpose of being sold, or used for 
domestic purposes unless a permit therefor has been first 
obtained from the local board, and no person shall sell or 
deliver or dispose of in any way any ice for domestic pur- 
poses without first obtaining a permit therefor from the 
local board, and the local board may refuse a permit, or 
revoke any granted by it, when in their judgment the use of 
any ice cut or sold or to be cut or sold for domestic purposes 
under the same is or would be detrimental to the public 
health. 
(3) Every local board shall enforce the Regulations of the 
Provincial Board, and may prohibit the sale and use of any 
ice within the limits of the municipality, when, in its judg- 
By-law not 
to be passed 
until 
approved. 
Repairs and 
renewals, 
etc., powers 
of Provin- 
cial Board. 
Penalty. 
Regulation 
of ice 
supply by 
local board. 
Permit for 
cutting ice. 
Local board 
to enforce 
regulations. 37 
ment, the same is unfit for use or the use of it would be 
detrimental to the public health. 
(4) The local board may prohibit, and, through its officers, 
prevent the bringing of any such ice for the purpose of sale 
or use for domestic purposes into the limits of the muni- 
cipality, and may in the same manner prevent the sale of any 
such ice for domestic purposes within the limits of the muni- 
cipality, when, in its judgment, the ice is unfit for use, or 
the use of it would be detrimental to the public health. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 98. 
■ 
INSPECTION OF ANIMALS, MEAT, ETC. 
100.-(1) A medical officer of health or sanitary inspec- 
tor may at all reasonable times inspect or examine any ani- 
mal, icarcass, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, fruit, vege- 
tables, grain, bread, flour, milk or other article exposed for 
sale or deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or foi 
preparation for sale, and intended for food for man; and ii 
such article appears to him to be diseased, or unsound oi 
unwholesome, or unfit for food for man, he may seize and 
carry away the same, or cause it to be seized and carried 
away, in order that it may be destroyed or so disposed of as 
to prevent it from being exposed for sale or used as food 
for man. 
(2) The person to whom the same belongs, or did belong 
at the time of exposure for sale, or in whose possession or on 
whose premises the same was found, shall incur a penalty of 
not less than $10 nor more than $100 for every such article 
unless he proves that he did not know and had no means of 
knowing the condition of such article. 
(3) Where it is charged upon any prosecution under this 
section that any animal, or the meat or milk of any animal, is 
affected with any disease named in section 2 of The Animal 
Contagious Diseases Act of Canada, or with wens, clyers, 
actinomycosis or osteosarcoma, or any disease of a cancerous 
nature, the medical officer of health may make, or cause to 
be made, or request the Provincial Board to make, such 
scientific examination of the animal, meat or milk suspected 
of being diseased as may enable it to be determined whether 
or not such disease exists; and the Minister may instruct the 
Chief Officer of Health to make such examination or cause 
the same to be made. 
■' 
(4) The expenses of such examination, together with a fee 
not exceeding $10, shall be certified by the Chief Officer of 
Health, and shall be payable by the treasurer of the munici- 
pality in which such animal, meat or milk is found. 
Prohibiting 
distribution 
in munici- 
pality. 
Inspection 
of food 
supplies 
Penalty. 
Scientific 
examination 
where exist- 
ence of 
certain 
diseases 
charged. 
R.S.O., 1908, 
c. 75. 
Expenses 
and fee on 
examination. 38 
Onus of 
proof. 
(5) In any prosecution under this section the burden of 
proof that any article in respect of which the charge is laid 
is not kept for sale or intended for food for man shall be 
upon the person charged. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 99. 
1O1.-(1) Whenever any medical officer of health or sani- 
tary inspector knows or has reason to believe that blood, 
offal or the meat of any dead animal which has not been 
previously boiled or steamed when fresh or before becoming 
putrid or decomposed, or which, although boiled or steamed, 
is putrid or decomposed, has been or is being fed to hogs, 
he may seize and carry away the hogs, whether dead or alive, 
or otherwise detain them so as to prevent their removal. 
(2) The owner, or person in charge of, or any person found 
feeding any such blood, offal or meat to hogs shall incur a 
penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $50, and upon his 
conviction the mediqal officer of health shall order the hogs, 
whether dead or alive, to be destroyed or so disposed of as 
to prevent them from being exposed for sale or used for food 
for man. 
(3) In every prosecution under this section, where it is 
proved that such blood, offal or decomposed meat was found 
upon the premises, the burden of proof that the same was 
not intended to be fed to hogs shall be upon the person 
charged. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 100. 
102.-(1) Every butcher and other person selling meat 
shall on the request of the medical officer of health make 
affidavit as to the place at which the slaughter of his meat is 
carried on, and where it is without the limits of the muni- 
cipality such place shall be open to inspection by the medical 
officer of health or by an inspector appointed by the council 
of the municipality in which the meat is offered for sale. 
(2) In case of the refusal or neglect to make such affidavit 
or permit such inspection, the local board may give notice in 
writing to the butcher or other person to discontinue the sale 
of meat in the municipality. 
(3) If after receiving such notice the butcher or other 
person sells or offers for sale any meat in the municipality 
he shall incur a penalty not exceeding $20. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 101. 
103.-(1) Any person who knowingly sells, or has in his 
possession with intent to sell as food for man, the meat of 
any calf less than four weeks old shall incur a penalty of not 
less than $10 nor more than $50. 
(2) In every prosecution under this section, where it is 
proved that the meat of any calf less than four weeks old 
Feeding 
certain 
things to 
hogs. 
Penalty. 
Onus of 
proof 
Inspection 
of slaugh- 
ter houses. 
Notice to 
discontinue 
sale. 
Penalty. 
Killing or 
selling 
calves 
under four 
weeks old. 
Burden of 
proof. 39 
was found upon the premises, the burden of proof that the 
same was not intended as food for man shall be upon the 
person charged. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 102. 
MUNICIPAL SLAUGHTER HOUSES, ABATTOIRS, ETC. 
104.-(1) The municipal council of a city or town may 
by by-law provide for the establishment, within the munici- 
pality, or in an adjoining municipality, the council of which 
has by by-law sanctioned its establishment therein, of a 
public slaughter-house or abattoir with proper -cattle-yards 
and pens in connection therewith for the proper keeping 
therein of animals intended for slaughter, and for charging 
fees for the use thereof. 
(2) Every such slaughter-house or abottoir, and cattle- 
yard and pen, shall be constructed, equipped and regulated 
in conformity with the Regulations. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 103. 
105.-The local board of the city or town by which the 
slaughter-house or abattoir, cattle-yards or pens are established 
shall have the supervision of them, and shall be responsible for 
the due carrying out of the Regulations, and the costs of the 
supervision and inspection shall be paid from time to time by 
the treasurer of the city or town out of the fees charged, on the 
order of the local board of health. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 104. 
106. Such local board may employ one or more persons, 
approved of by the medical officer of health, to inspect at 
such slaughter-house or abattoir, or at such cattle-yards or 
pens, all animals, 'carcasses and meat brought into the muni- 
cipality and intended for food for man. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 105. 
107. Any meat-packing establishment shall be subject to 
inspection in the same manner as a municipal slaughter- 
house or abattoir. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 106. 
USE OF FORCE-ASSISTANCE BY CONSTABLES, ETC. 
108. Any person who obstructs, hinders, or delays or pre- 
vents the Provincial Board or Chief Officer of Health or 
other officer of the Board, or any local board, or a member 
thereof, medical officer of health or sanitary inspector, or any 
person employed by or acting under the direction of any of them 
in the exercise of any of the powers conferred, or performance 
of any of the duties imposed upon them by this Act or by the 
Regulations, or in carrying out any order lawfully given by 
them, shall incur a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than 
$100. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 107. 
109. Whenever a local board or a member thereof, medi- 
cal officer of health or sanitary inspector is required or em- 
powered by this or any other Act or by the Regulations or by a 
By-laws for 
establishing 
slaughter- 
houses, 
cattle-yards 
or pens. 
Regulation 
of slaughter 
houses, etc. 
Local board 
of health 
to have 
control. 
Competent 
persons 
employed 
for inspect- 
ing animals 
and meat. 
Inspection 
of meat- 
packing 
establish- 
ments. 
Penalty for 
hindering 
officers from 
inspecting 
meat, etc. 
Calling for 
assistance 
of con- 
stables, etc. 40 
municipal by-law to do or to prevent or to direct or enforce 
the doing of anything, such board or member or officer or 
inspector may use such force and employ such assistance as is 
necessary ter accomplish what is required, and may, when 
obstructed in so doing, call for the assistance of any constable 
or other person, and it shall be the duty of every constable 
so called upon to render such assistance. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 108. 
PENALTIES AND RECOVERY THEREOF. 
110.- (1) Any person who contravenes any of the pro- 
visions of sections 53 to 72 for which no other penalty is pro- 
vided shall incur a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than 
$100. 
(2) Any person who contravenes any other provision of 
this Act or of the Regulations, or of any municipal by-law 
passed under this Act, or wilfully disobeys or neglects to carry 
out any order or direction lawfully given by the Provincial 
Board, a local board, member of a local board, medical officer 
of health or sanitary inspector unless it is otherwise pro- 
vided shall incur a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than 
$20. 
(3) Where any person has been convicted of an offence 
under this Act or under any Regulation or by-law enacted or 
in force thereunder, and such offence is in the nature of an 
omission or neglect, or is in respect of the existence of a 
nuisance, or other unsanitary condition, which it is such per- 
son's duty to remove, or of the erection or construction of 
anything contrary to the provisions of this Act, or of any 
Regulation or by-law enacted or in force thereunder, then, if 
the proper authority in that behalf gives reasonable notice to 
such person to make good suich omission or neglect, or to remove 
such nuisance or unsanitary condition, or to remove the thing 
which has been erected or constructed contrary to this Act or 
to such Regulation or by-law, and default is made in respect 
thereof, the person offending may be convicted for such default, 
and shall be liable to the same punishment as was or might have 
been imposed for the original offence, and so on, from time to 
time, as often as after another conviction a new notice is given 
and the default icontinues; and in case of a third or subsequent 
conviction, jt shall not be necessary in the information, con- 
viction or other proceedings to make any reference to any con- 
viction except the first, or to any notice except that in respect of 
which the proceedings are then being taken. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 109. 
111. Penalties imposed by or under the authority of this 
Act shall be recoverable under The Ontario Summary Convic- 
tions Act before a police magistrate or two justices of the 
peace. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 110. 
Penalties. 
Communi- 
cable 
diseases. 
Other 
offences. 
Continuance 
of offence. 
Recovery of 
penalties. 
Rev. Stat, 
c. 90. 41 
112.-(1) Every penalty recovered under this Act where 
the prosecution is by or at the instance of the corporation of 
a municipality, or the local board, or the medical officer of 
health or other health officers of the municipality shall be paid 
to the treasurer of the municipality in which the offence was 
committed for the use of the local board of health. 
* 
(2) Where the prosecution is at the instance of the Pro- 
vincial Board or of any Provincial officer or where the offence 
was committed in territory without municipal organization the 
penalty shall be paid to the Treasurer of Ontario. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 111. 
113. Where any act or omission is a violation of any express 
provision of this Act and is also a violation of a by-law of a 
municipality in respect of a matter over which the council of 
the municipality has jurisdiction, a conviction may be had 
under either the Act or the by-law, but a conviction shall not be 
made under both for the same act or omission. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 112. 
ALL PROCEEDINGS BARRED BY POVERTY, ETC. 
114. Where any person who is unable from poverty or other 
sufficient cause to comply with any of the provisions of this 
Act, or of the Eegulations, gives notice of such inability to 
the medical officer of health, and the local board on examination 
is satisfied of such inability, the secretary thereof shall give his 
certificate to that effect, and such certificate shall be a bar to all 
proceedings against such person for a period of six months. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 113. 
STATUTORY BY-LAW. 
115.-(1) The by-law set out in Schedule B, hereinafter 
called the statutory by-law, and every amendment thereof, shall 
be in force in every municipality as if enacted by the council 
thereof, and the council of every municipality shall have 
authority to pass by-laws with the approval of the Provincial 
Board for making additional requirements in respect to any of 
the matters dealt with by the statutory by-law. 
(2) The Board may permit the council of any municipality 
to amend the statutory by-law so as to conform to the require- 
ments of the municipality or to meet such special circumstances 
as in the opinion of the Board may warrant such amendment. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 114. 
POSTPONEMENT OF MUNICIPAL AND SCHOOL ELECTIONS. 
116.-(1) Where the Provincial Board reports to the 
Lieutenant-Governor that on account of the prevalence in 
any municipality of any communicable disease it would be 
Application 
of penalties. 
Offences in 
unorganized 
territory. 
Where 
offence is 
against Act 
and by-law. 
Certificate 
of poverty 
or inability 
a bar to 
prosecution. 
Application 
of enact- 
ments in 
Schedule 
" B." 
Amendment 
of by-law. 
Postpone- 
ment of 
election in 
case of 
epidemics. 42 
dangerous to hold an election in such municipality, the 
Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, of his own motion, or 
upon the application of the council of the municipality, issue 
his proclamation postponing the holding of any intended muni- 
cipal or school election for a period not exceeding three months, 
and may from time to time further postpone such election if, in 
the opinion of the Board, the necessity for postponement con- 
tinues. 
(2) The Lieutenant-Governor may, by the proclamation, 
name the days for holding the nomination and polling, but, if 
no days are named therefor, the council shall as soon as prac- 
ticable after the period named in such proclamation, or the 
last of such proclamations, expires, by by-law name the days for 
the nomination and polling. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 115. 
UNORGANIZED TERRITORY. 
117. Sections 118 to 124 shall apply only to territory with- 
out municipal organization. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 116. 
118.-(1) The Provincial Board of Health may, with the 
approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, make 
Regulations: 
(a) Respecting any industry and the conditions under 
which the same may be carried on for the pur- 
pose of preventing nuisances and the outbreak or 
spread of disease; 
(&) For the cleansing, regulating and inspection of lum- 
bering camps and of mining camps and railway 
construction works and of other places where labour 
is employed; 
(c) For providing for the inspection of houses and 
premises; 
(d) For providing for the employment of duly qualified 
medical practitioners by employers of labour in 
lumbering camps and in mining camps and on rail- 
way construction works and other works where 
labour is employed, and for the erection of per- 
manent or temporary hospitals for the accommoda- 
tion of persons so employed. 
(2) The Regulations may be general in their application 
or may be made applicable specially to any particular locality or 
industry. 
(3) The expenses of carrying out the Regulations shall be 
paid to the person entitled thereto by the persons, firms or 
corporations whose duty it may be to carry out such regula- 
Fixing date 
for holding 
postponed 
election. 
Application 
of sections 
117 to 122. 
Regulations. 
General or 
local or 
special. 
Expenses. 43 
tions, and the amount so to be paid shall be apportioned by 
the Minister among them as he may deem proper, and every 
amount so apportioned shall be deemed to be a debt due 
from the person, firm or corporation, and may be recovered 
by the person entitled thereto by action in any court of com- 
petent jurisdiction. 
(d) If default is made in complying with any of the Regu- 
lations the Board may direct that what is omitted to be done 
shall be done at the expense of the person, firm or cor- 
poration in default, and if the default is the failure to em- 
ploy a duly qualified medical practitioner, as provided by 
clause (d) of subsection 1, the employing person, firm or 
corporation shall be liable to pay the reasonable expenses 
incurred by any employee for medical attendance and medi- 
cines, and for his maintenance during his illness. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 117. 
119. Every police magistrate shall be ex-officio a medical 
officer of health in and for the district or part of a district for 
which he is appointed. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 118. 
120. Exery constable shall be ex-officio a sanitary inspector 
for the locality for which he is appoinetd. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, 
s. 119. 
121. The Superintendent of the Algonquin Park shall be 
ex-officio a medical officer of health for the Park, and for the 
territory surrounding it for the distance of one mile therefrom 
or from any part thereof; and all the park rangers, whether 
employed temporarily or otherwise, shall be ex-officio sanitary 
inspectors under this Act for the Park and such territory. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 120. 
122. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint 
medical officers of health; and every such officer shall within 
the locality for which he is appointed have all the powers 
and perform all the duties by this Act, or any other Act, 
conferred or imposed upon medical officers of health, or local 
boards of health, and shall also perform such other duties 
as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may direct. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 58, s. 121. 
123. The Provincial Board may also, with the approval of 
the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, appoint in any of the un- 
organized districts one or more sanitary inspectors, who shall 
possess, in addition to the powers conferred upon sanitary in- 
spectors by this Act, all the powers conferred upon local boards 
of health by section 27. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 122. 
124. The medical officer of health and the sanitary inspec- 
tors shall be paid such salary or other remuneration as may 
be determined by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council out of 
Procedure 
on default 
of com- 
pliance. 
Police 
magistrates 
to be 
ex-officio 
health 
officers. 
Constables 
to be 
ex-officio 
sanitary 
inspectors. 
Superin- 
tendent and 
officers in 
Algonquin 
Park. 
Local 
officers 
of health 
specially 
appointed. 
Sanitary 
inspectors. 
In un- 
organized 
territory. 44 
the appropriation made by the Legislature for the purposes of 
the Provincial Board. 2 Gqq. V. c. 58, s. 123. 
EXPENSES OF ENFORCEMENT OF ACT. 
125.-(1) The expenses incurred by the Provincial Board 
in the enforcement of this or any other Act or of the Regula- 
tions shall be payable in the first instance by the Treasurer 
of Ontario out of any money appropriated by this Legisla- 
ture for the expenses of the Board, and in such manner and 
upon such certificate and after such audit as the Regulations 
may prescribe, anything in The Audit Act or any other Act to 
the contrary notwithstanding. 
(2) Whenever an account is certified by the officer desig- 
nated in the Regulations to be properly payable out of such 
appropriation, such certificate shall be final and the Pro- 
vincial Auditor shall thereupon direct the issue of a cheque in 
payment of the account. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 124. 
PROCEEDINGS NOT TO BE QUASHED FOR WANT OF FORM, OR 
REMOVED INTO SUPREME COURT. 
126. No order or other proceeding, matter or thing, done 
or transacted in or relating to the execution of this Act shall 
be vacated, quashed or set aside for want of form, or be 
removed or removable by certiorari or otherwise into the 
Supreme Court., 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 125. 
127. Except in so far as they are inconsistent with this 
Act all existing Regulations made under any of the Acts 
repealed by The Public Health Act, being chapter 58 of the 
Acts passed in the second year of His Majesty's reign, or 
under that Act are confirmed and declared to be legal, valid 
and binding and shall continue in force until altered or re- 
pealed by the Provincial Board with the approval of the 
Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 126. 
Expenses 
to be pay- 
able in first 
instance by 
Province. 
Rev. Stat, 
c. 23. 
Payment on 
certificate 
of proper 
officer. 
Proceedings 
not to be 
quashed 
for want of 
form or re- 
moved into 
Supreme 
Court. 
Existing 
regulations 
continued. 45 
SCHEDULE "A." 
(Section 50 (2).) 
Public Health. 
Take notice that by virtue of The Public Health Act, and the 
regulations made thereunder, possession has been taken (or 
obtained, as the case may be) of the following lands (or building, 
as the case may be) namely, 
(Reasonable Description.) 
and further take notice that such land (or building) will be 
occupied and used for the purposes of the said Act or regulations 
from and after the date hereof for a period of or such 
other time as may in the discretion of the undersigned be 
necessary. 
Dated, etc. 
(Signature.) 
SCHEDULE «B" 
(Section 115.) 
By-law in Force in Every Municipality Until Altered by 
the Municipal Council. 
1. It shall be the duty of the Medical Officer of Health to 
assist and advise the Local Board of Health and its officers in ■ 
matters relating to public health and to superintend, under the; 
direction of the Board, the enforcement and observance, within 
this municipality, of health by-laws or regulations, and of 
Public Health Acts, and of any other sanitary laws, and to 
perform such other duties and lawful acts for the preservation 
of the public health as may, in his opinion, be necessary, or as 
may be required by the Local Board of Health. He shall also 
present to the Board, before the 15th day of November in each 
year, a full report upon the sanitary condition of the munici- 
pality. 
2. The sanitary inspector, besides performing the duties im- 
posed by this by-law, shall assist the medical officer of health 
and perform such other duties as may from time to time be 
assigned to him by the Local Board of Health or its chairman. 
3. The chairman of the Local Board of Health shall, before 
the 1st day of December in each year, present to this Council 
a report containing a detailed statement of the work of the 
Board during the year, and the report of the sanitary condition 
of the municipality, as rendered to the board by the Medical 
Officer of Health. A copy of each such report shall be trans- 
mitted by the secretary to the Provincial Board of Health. 
4. No person shall within the municipality suffer the accumu- 
lation upon his premises, or deposit, or permit the deposit, upon 
any land belonging to him, of anything which may endanger the 
public health, or deposit upon, on or into, any street, square, 
lane, by-way, wharf, dock. slip, lake, pond bank, harbour, river, 
stream, sewer, or water, any manure or other refuse, or vege- 
table or animal matter, or other filth. 
Duty of 
medical 
health 
officer. 
Duty of . 
Sanitary 
Inspector. 
Chairman 
of Board of 
Health to 
report to 
Council. 
Deposits 
endanger- 
ing public 
health 
forbidden. 46 
Duty of 
Inspector 
as to lands, 
etc. 
5. It shall be the duty of the sanitary inspector to keep a 
vigilant supervision over all streets, lanes, by-ways, lots, or 
premises upon which any such accumulation may be found, and 
at once to notify the persons who own or occupy such lots or 
premises, or who either personally or through their employees 
have deposited such manure, refuse matter, or filth, in any 
street, lane, or by-way, to cleanse the same, and to remove what 
is found thereon; such persons shall forthwith remove the same, 
and if the same be not removed within twenty-four hours after 
such notification the inspector may prosecute the persons so 
offending, and he may also cause the same to be removed at 
the expense of the person or persons so offending. He shall 
also inspect at intervals, as directed by the Local Board of 
Health, all premises occupied by persons residing within the 
municipality, and shall report to the Board every violation of 
any of the provisions of this by-law, or of any other regulation 
for the preservation of the public health, and shall also report 
every case of refusal to permit him to make such inspection. 
6. Whenever it shall appear to the Local Board, or to any of 
its officers, that it is necessary for the preservation of the public 
health, or for the abatement of anything dangerous or injurious 
to the public health, or whenever a notice signed by one or 
more inhabitant householders of this municipality is received 
stating the condition of any building in the municipality to be so 
filthy as to be dangerous to the public health, or that upon any 
premises in the municipality there is any foul or offensive ditch, 
gutter, drain, privy, cess-pool, ash-pit, or cellar, kept or con 
structed so as to be dangerous or injurious to the public health 
or that upon any such premises an accumulation of dung, 
manure, offal, filth, refuse, stagnant water, or other matter or 
thing is kept so as to be dangerous or injurious to the public 
health, it shall be the duty of the sanitary inspector to enter 
such building or premises for the purpose of examining the 
.same, and,, if necessary he shall order the removal of such 
matter or thing. If the occupant or owner or his lawful agent 
or representative having charge or control of such building or 
premises, after having had twenty-four hours' notice from any 
such officer to remove or abate such matter or thing, shall 
neglect or refuse to remove or abate the same, he shall be 
subject to the penalties mentioned in section 33. 
7. If the Local Board is satisfied upon due examination that a 
3 cellar, room, tenement, or building within the municipality, 
occupied as a dwelling-place, has become by reason of the number 
of occupants, want of cleanliness, the existence therein of a com- 
municable disease, or other cause, unfit for such purpose, or that 
it has become a nuisance, or in any way dangerous or injurious 
to the health of the occupants, or of the public, the Board may 
give notice in writing to such occupants, or any of them, requiring 
the premises to be put in proper sanitary condition, or requiring 
the occupants to quit the premises within such time as the Board 
may deen reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of them, 
neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, every 
person so offending shall be liable to the penalties mentioned in 
section 33, and the Board may cause the premises to be properly 
cleansed at the expense of the owners or occupants, or may remove 
the occupants forcibly and close up the premises, and the same 
shall not again be occupied as a dwelling-place until put into 
proper sanitary condition. 
8. No person shall at any time use any house, shop or out-house 
as a slaughter-house or as a place for slaughtering animals or 
fowls therein, unless such shop, house or out-house is distant not 
less than two hundred yards from any dwelling-house, and not 
less than seventy yards from any public street. 
Examina- 
£iOqd?f 
premis^by 
Sanitary 
Inspectors, 
Notice to 
put premises 
in proper 
sanitary 
condition 
or to quit 
same. 
Distance of 
slaughter- 
house, etc. 47 
Inspection 
of 
slaughter- 
house. 
9. All slaughter-houses within this municipality shall be subject 
to inspection under the direction of the Local Board of Health; 
and no person shall keep any slaughter-house unless the permis- 
sion in writing of the Board for the keeping of such slaughter- 
house has been first obtained, and remains unrevoked. Such 
permission shall be granted after approval of such premises upon 
inspection, subject to the condition that the slaughter-house shall 
be so kept as not to impair the health of persons residing in its 
vicinity, and upon such condition being broken the permission mav 
be revoked by the Board; and all animals to be slaughtered, and 
all fresh meat exposed for sale in the municipality shall be sub- 
ject to like inspection. 
10. All milch cows, cow byres and dairies, and all places in 
which milk is sold or kept for general use, and all cheese-factories 
and creameries shall be subject to inspection under the direction 
of the Board; and the proprietors shall obtain permission in 
writing from the Board, to keep any such dairy or other place in 
which milk is so sold or kept, or to keep a cheese-factory or creamery, 
and the same shall not be kept by any person without such permis- 
sion, which shall be granted after approval of such premises upon 
inspection, subject to the condition that all such places are so 
kept and conducted that the milk shall not contain any matter 
or thing liable to produce disease, either by reason of adulteration, 
contamination with sewage, absorption of disease germs, infection 
of cows, or any other cause, and upon such condition being broken 
the said permission may be revoked by the Board. 
11. No person shall offer for sale within this municipality, as 
food, any diseased animal, or any meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, milk, 
or other article of food which, by reason of disease, adulteration, 
impurity, or other cause is unfit for use. 
12. It shall be the duty of the owner of every house within this 
municipality to provide for the occupants of the same a sufficient 
supply of wholesome drinking water; and if any occupant of the 
house is not satisfied with the wholesomeness or sufficiency of such 
supply, he may apply to the Local Board of Health to determine 
as to the same; and if the supply is sufficient and wholesome, the 
expense incident to such determination shall be paid by such 
occupant; and if not, by the owner; and in either case such 
expense shall be recoverable in the same manner as municipal 
taxes. 
13. All wells in this municipality which are in use, whether such 
wells are public or private, shall be cleaned out before the 1st day 
of July in each year, and if the Local Board of Health certifies 
that any well should be filled up, such well shall be forthwith filled 
up by the owner or occupant of the premises, and no well shall 
be used as a privy, privy vault or cess-pool. 
14. No privy-vault, cess-pool, or reservoir into which a privy, 
water-closet, stable or sink is drained, shall be established until 
the approval in writing of the medical officer of health has been 
obtained. 
15. The next preceding section shall not apply to earth privies 
or earth closets without a vault below the surface of the ground, 
but sufficient dry earth, wood-ashes or coal ashes to absorb all 
the fluid parts of the deposit must be thrown upon the contents 
of such earth privies and closets daily, and the contents when 
removed must be placed in a shed or box with rain-proof cover, 
and removed from the premises at least once a year on or before 
the 1st day of May. 
Inspection 
of cow 
byres, 
cheese fac- 
tories and 
creameries. 
Sale of 
diseased 
food. 
Supply of 
drinking 
water. 
Wells to be 
cleaned 
out, etc. 
Details of 
establish- 
ment of 
privy 
vaults, etc., 
to be ap- 
proved by 
M.O.H. 
Time de- 
posits to be 
removed. 48 
Cleaning 
out and 
disinfect- 
ing privy 
vaults, etc. 
16. If the exigencies or circumstances of the municipality 
require that privy-vaults, cess-pools or reservoirs shall be allowed 
in accordance with section 14, they shall be cleaned out at least 
once a year, on or before the 1st day of May, and from the 1st day 
of May to the 1st day of November in each year they shall be 
thoroughly disinfected by adding to the contents of the vault, cess- 
pool or reservoir, once a month, not less than two pounds of chloride 
of lime, dissolved in two pailfuls of water. 
17. Within the limits of this municipality no night-soil or con- 
tents of any cess-pool shall be removed, unless previously disin- 
fected as provided by section 16, and during its transportation 
the material shall be covered with a layer of fresh earth, unless 
the removal is by some odourless excavating process. 
18. All putrid and decaying animal or vegetable matter must be 
removed from all cellars, buildings, out-buildings and yards on or 
before the 1st day of May in each year. 
19. Every householder and every hotel and restaurant-keeper or 
other person shall dispose of all garbage, for the disposal of which 
he is responsible, either by burning the same or by placing it in 
a proper covered receptable, the contents of which shall be regu- 
larly removed, at least twice a week. 
20. Swine shall not be kept within the limits of this munici- 
pality, except in pens, with floors kept free from standing w'ater 
and regularly cleansed and disinfected, and distant at least one 
hundred feet from any dwelling house, school house or church. 
21. The keeper of every livery or other stable shall keep his 
stable and stable-yard clean, and shall not permit more than two 
waggon-loads of manure to accumulate in or near the same at any 
one time, and shall at all times keep such manure in a proper 
covered receptacle. 
22. No house shall be built upon any site, the soil of which has 
been made up of any refuse, unless such soil has been removed 
from such site, and the site disinfected, or unless the soil has 
been covered with a layer of charcoal or ashes, covered by a layer 
of concrete at least six inches thick and of such additional thick- 
ness as may be requisite under the circumstances to prevent the 
escape of gases into such proposed house. 
23. The drain of every house connected with a sewer or cess- 
pool shall be properly ventilated by means of a pipe extending 
upward from the highest point of the main soil or waste-pipe, 
and also by a pipe carried upward from the drain outside the 
walls of the house. Such pipes shall be of the same dimensions as 
the main soil or waste-pipe, and shall be constructed of the same 
material or of stout galvanized iron, and no trap shall intervene 
between the ventilating pipes. If a trap intervenes between 
the sewer or cess-pool and the ventilating pipes, then a four- 
inch ventilating pipe of such material shall be carried from a 
point between such trap and the sewer. Every ventilating pipe 
shall be carried above the roof of the house, and shall open above 
at points sufficiently remote from every window, door, sky-light 
chimney or other opening leading into any house to prevent the 
escape into it of gases from such ventilating pipes. 
24. No pipe from any drain or soil-pipe shall be connected with 
any chimney in a dwelling-house. 
25. Every house-drain shall be constructed of vitrified earthen- 
ware or iron pipe; and every soil and waste-pipe of iron pipe shall 
be rendered impervious to gas or liquids, by the joints being run 
with lead and caulked, or constructed of lead pipe weighing at 
least six pounds to the square foot; and the waste-pipe from ever'7 
Deodoriza- 
tion before 
removal. 
Time for 
removal of 
decayed 
animal or 
vegetable 
matter. 
Time for 
removal of 
garbage. 
Hogs. 
Livery 
stable. 
House con- 
struction. 
sites tobe 
disinfected, 
Ventila- 
tion of 
drains, etc. 
Description 
of drain 
pipeS' 49 
closet, sink, tub, wash-basin or other service shall have as near as 
possible to the point of junction with such service a trap so con- 
structed, vented and furnished, that it shall at no time allow of 
the passage of gas into the house. And all joints shall be so con- 
structed as to prevent gas escaping through them. 
26. The construction of any closet or other convenience which 
allows of the escape from it or from the drain or soil-pipe into 
the house of air or gas is prohibited. 
27. No pipe supplying water to a water-closet or urinal shall 
be directly connected with a pipe supplying water for drinking 
purposes. 
28. Every person who erects or causes to be erected any building 
shall, within two weeks after the completion thereof, deposit with 
the Local Board of Health plans of the drainage and plumbing of 
the same as executed; and in the case of any alteration of any 
such plumbing or drainage, it shall be the duty of the owner of 
the house, within two weeks of the making of the alteration, to 
deposit in the same manner a plan of any such alteration; if such 
alteration is made by an occupant it shall be his duty to deposit 
or cause to be deposited the plan. 
29. The Medical Officer of Health or the Secretary of the Local 
Board of Health, shall provide each legally qualified medical prat? 
titioner, practising within this municipality, with blank forms on 
which he shall report cases of communicable disease to the Medical 
Officer of Health, Officer or Secretary, and, also with other blank 
forms on which to report death or recovery from any such 
disease. 
30. All such forms shall be so printed, gummed and folded that 
they may be readily sealed, without the use of any envelope, and 
shall call for the following information: 
Report of Communicable Disease. 
Christian name and surname of patient: 
Age of patient: 
Locality (giving street, number of house or lot), where patient 
is: 
Name of disease: 
Name of school attended by children from that house: 
Measures employed for isolation and disinfection: 
(Signature of physican): 
Certain 
closets 
prohibited. 
Pipes sup- 
plying 
water to 
closets. 
Plumbing 
and drain- 
age plans 
to be filed. 
Rules re- 
specting in- 
fectious 
and con- 
tagious 
diseases. 
Duties of 
M.O.H. 
Forms, 
kind of. 
Blank 
forms. 
Report of Death or Recovery from Infectiotis Disease. 
Christian name and surname of patient: 
Locality (giving street, number of house or lot), where patient 
is: 
Name of disease: 
How long sick: 
Whether dead or recovered: 
Means of disinfection employed, and when employed: 
(Signature of physlcan): 50 
Notice of 
disease 
to be 
posted up. 
31. The medical Officer of Health within six hours after he has 
received notice of the existence in any house of any communi- 
cable disease in respect of which it is his duty to do so, shall 
affix or cause to be affixed, near the entrance of such house, a 
card at least nine inches wide and twelve inches long, stating that 
such disease exists in the house, and stating the penalty for re- 
moval of such card without the permission of the Medical Officer 
of Health, and no person shall remove such card without his 
permission. 
32. No animal suffering from any communicable disease shall be 
brought or kept within this municipality, except by permission of 
the Medical Officer of Health. 
33. Any person who violates sections 4, 6, 7, 9, or 11 of this by- 
law or section 22 or sections 31 or 32, shall for every offence, incur 
a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $50; and any person 
who violates any other provision of this by-law shall for every 
offence incur a penalty of not more than $20; and such penalties 
shall be recoverable under " The Summary Convictions Act." 
Not to be 
removed. 
Animals 
affected. 
Penalties. 51 
CHAPTER 219. 
An Act respecting Vaccination and Inoculation. 
HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, 
enacts as follows:- 
1. This Act may be cited as The Vaccination Act. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 59, s. 1. 
2. The trustees, governors, directors or other officers or 
persons having at any time the control and management of 
any hospital or dispensary receiving aid from the public funds 
of Ontario shall keep at all times in such hospital or dispensary 
an adequate supply of vaccine matter for, 
(a) The vaccination, by a legally qualified medical prac- 
titioner attached to such hospital or dispensary, 
at the expense of the same, of all poor persons, and 
at their own expense of all other persons, who attend 
at such hospital or dispensary for that purpose, dur- 
ing one day in every week; the fee to be charged 
for such vaccination not in any case to exceed fifty 
cents, and to be used and applied for the benefit of 
the hospital or dispensary; 
(6) Furnishing, on application, to every legally qualified 
medical practitioner, such reasonable quantities of 
vaccine matter as he from time to time requires; 
(c) Furnishing, on application, to the Superintendent- 
General of Indian Affairs, or his assistant, or to 
any visiting Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 
such reasonable quantities of vaJccine matter as he 
may from time to time require for the use and 
benefit of any settlement of Indians. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 59, s. 2. 
3. No warrant shall issue for the payment of any money 
granted by this Legislature to any hospital or dispensary, 
unless a certificate has been filed in the office of the Clerk of 
the Executive Council, signed by a medical officer of such 
hospital or dispensary, to the effect that there is actually on 
hand therein a supply of vaccine matter which is believed to 
be sufficient for the purposes mentioned in section 2 from the 
date of such certificate, or setting forth reasons in explanation 
of any deficiency in such supply to the satisfaction of the 
Lieutenant-Governor in Council, nor unless, nor until a cer- 
tificate so signed has been filed to the effect that at no time 
since the date of the then last certificate, has the demand upon 
such hospital or dispensary for vaccine matter for such pur- 
Short title. 
Duty of 
trustees, 
etc., of 
hospitals, 
etc., to keep 
vaccine 
matter. 
For vac- 
cination at 
hospital. 
For furnish- 
ing prac- 
titioners. 
For the use 
of the 
Indians. 
No payment 
of Legisla- 
tive grant 
to any 
hospital un- 
less it has a 
sufficient 
quantity of 
vaccine 
matter on 
hand, etc. 52 
poses exceeded the supply in hand in such hospital or dis- 
pensary, or setting forth reasons in explanation of any deficiency 
in such supply, to the satisfaction of the Lieutenant-Governor 
in Council. 2 Geo. V. c. 59, s. 3. 
4. The trustees, governors, directors or other officers or 
persons having for the time being the control and manage- 
ment of any hospital or dispensary to which aid has been 
granted during any Session of the Assembly shall cause to be 
transmitted to the Provincial Secretary, in time for copies 
thereof to be laid before the Assembly during the first fifteen 
days of the then next Session, a statement certified by the 
proper officers of such hospital or dispensary showing the num- 
ber of persons who have applied for and received free vaccina- 
tion, the number of persons who have applied for and re- 
ceived vaccination at their own expense, and the number, amount 
and application of fees charged and received for vaccination. 
2 Geo. V. c. 59, s. 4. 
5-(1) The corporation of every city, town, township and 
village shall contract with one or more legally qualified 
medical practitioners, for the period of one year, and so 
from year to year as such contract expires, for the vaccina- 
tion, at the expense of the Icorporation, of all poor persons, 
and at their own expense of all other persons resident in such 
municipality who come to such medical practitioners for that 
purpose. 
(2) It shall be a condition of every such contract, that the 
amount of the remuneration to be received under the same 
shall depend on the number of persons who, not having been 
previously successfully vaccinated, are successfully vaccinated 
by such medical practitioners. 2 Geo. V. c. 59, s. 5. 
G.-(l) If the corporation neglects to make such contract 
and such neglect continues for one month after the attention 
of the council has been called in writing by the local board 
of health to such neglect, and to the powers which, in case of 
such neglect, it may exercise under the authority of this 
Act, the local board may contract with the medical officer of 
health of the municipality, or other legally qualified medical 
practitioner, to perform all the duties which may be per- 
formed by or are incumbent upon a medical practitioner 
under this Act if appointed or contracted with by the cor- 
poration under the next preceding section, and the corpora- 
tion shall be liable to the medical practitioner for the fees 
for vaccination or for duties performed to the extent pro- 
vided for by this Act as if the contract had been made by or 
with the corporation. 
(2) The local board, of health may also, unless the council 
has already done so, appoint the plaices and give the notice 
where and when such vaccination shall be performed, as is 
Annual 
statement 
to be laid 
before 
Assembly 
respecting 
vaccination. 
Employment 
panties of 
practition- 
ers to 
residents. 
Remunera- 
tion to 
depend on 
success. 
SToa^d 
of health in 
municL °f 
paiity. 
Local board 
pUc^an^ 
give notice. 53 
required by the next succeeding section, to be done by the 
council. 2 Geo. V. c. 59, s. 6. 
7. The council of every city and town shall appoint a con- 
venient place in each ward, and the council of every town- 
ship and village shall appoint a convenient place therein for 
the performance, at least once in each month, of such vaccina- 
tion, and shall take effectual means for giving, from time to 
time, to all persons resident within each such ward or within 
the township or village due notice of the days, hours and 
place at which the medical practitioner or one of the medical 
practitioners contracted with for such purpose will attend to 
vaccinate all persons not successfully vaccinated who may 
then appear there, and also of the days, hours and place at 
which such medical practitioner will attend to inspect the 
progress of such vaccination in the persons so vaccinated. 
2 Geo. V. c. 59, s. 7. 
8.-(l) The father and mother of every । child born in such 
city, town, township, or village shall, at some appointed 
time within three months after the birth of such child, or 
in the event of the death, illness, absence or inability of the 
father and mother, then the person who has the care, nurture 
or custody of the child, shall at some appointed time within 
four months after the birth of the child, take or cause to be 
taken the child to the medical practitioner in attendance at 
the appointed place, according to the provisions of the pre- 
ceding sections, for the purpose of being vaccinated, unless 
the child has been previously vaccinated by a legally qualified 
medical practitioner and the vaccination has been duly cer- 
tified; and the medical practitioner so appointed shall there- 
upon, or as soon after as it can conveniently and properly be 
done, vaccinate the child. 
(2) Upon the eighth day following the day on which any 
child has been so vaccinated, the father or mother, or other 
person having the care, nurture or custody of the child, shall 
again take or cause to be taken the child to the medical prac- 
titioner by whom the operation was performed, or the other 
medical practitioner in attendance, in order that he may 
ascertain by inspection the result of the operation. 
(3) Immediately after the successful vaccination of a child 
born in any city, town, township or village the medical prac- 
titioner who performed the operation shall deliver to the 
father or mother, or other person having the care, nurture or 
custody of the child, a certificate under his hand, Form 1, 
that the child has been successfully' vaccinated, and shall 
transmit a duplicate of the certificate to the clerk of the muni- 
cipality in which the operation was performed. 
(4) Such certificate shall, without further proof, be ad- 
missible as evidence of the successful vaccination of the child 
Munici- 
palities to 
appoint 
convenient 
places for 
perform- 
ance of 
vaccination. 
to be 
vaccinated. 
^dexhitn^ 
medical 
onaeighthei 
day- 
Certificate 
of success- 
ful vaccina- 
tion to be 
given. 
Wbat t0 b® 
evidence oi. 54 
in any information or complaint brought against the father 
or mother, or the person who had the care, nurture or custody 
of the child, for noncompliance with the provisions of this 
Act. 
(5) If the medical practitioner is of opinion that a child 
brought to him is not in a fit and proper state to be success' 
fully vaccinated he shall deliver to the father or mother of 
the child, or the person having the care, nurture or custody 
of the child, on demand and without fee, a certificate under 
his hand, Form 2, that the child is in an unfit state for suc- 
cessful vaccination. 
(6) Such certificate or a similar certificate of a legally 
qualified medical practitioner shall remain in force for two 
months from its delivery; and the father or mother, or the 
person having the care, nurture or custody of the child, 
unless within each succeeding period of two months a renewal 
of such certificate has been obtained from a legally qualified 
medical practitioner, shall, within two months' after the de- 
livery of the certificate, and if the child is not vaccinated by 
the termination of such period, then during each succeeding 
period of two months until the child has been successfully 
vaccinated, take or cause to be taken to the medical prac- 
titioner, so appointed, such child to be vaccinated by him. 
(7) If the medical practitioner deems the child to be then 
in a fit and proper state for successful vaccination, he shall 
forthwith vaccinate it, and shall immediately after the suc- 
cessful vaccination of the child deliver to the father or mother, 
or to the person having the care, nurture or custody of the child, 
a certificate under his hand, Form 1, that the child has been 
successfully vaccinated. 
(8) If the medical practitioner is of opinion that the child 
is still in an unfit state for successful vaccination he shall 
again deliver to the father or mother, or to the person having 
' the care, nurture or custody of the child, a certificate under 
his hand, Form 2, that the child is still in an unfit state for 
successful vaccination, and the medical practitioner, so long 
as the child remains in an unfit state for vaccination and 
unvaccinated, shall, at the expiration of every succeeding 
period of two months, deliver, if required, to the father or 
mother, or to the person having the care, nurture or custody 
of the child, a fresh certificate under his hand, Form 2. 
(9) The production of such certificate or a simliar certi- 
ficate from a legally qualified medical practitioner shall be a 
sufficient defence against any complaint brought against the 
father or mother, or person having the care, nurture or custody 
of such child, for non-compliance with the provisions of this 
Act. 
befoundild 
unfit for 
vaccmation. 
Certificate. 
How long to 
be in force. 
Re-presen- 
tation of 
the child to 
be repeated 
until suc- 
cessful 
vaccination. 
Vaccination 
cate thereof, 
Certificate 
tion on re- 
examination. 
Effect of 
1 ' 55 
, If the child 
'is found in- 
susceptible 
'of vaccine 
'disease. 
(10) If a medical practitioner employed under the provisions, 
of this Act, or any other duly qualified medical practitioner,' 
is of opinion that any child vaccinated by him is insusceptible, 
of the vaccine disease, he shall deliver to the father or mother, 
or to the person having the icare, nurture or custody of the 
child, a certificate under his hand, Form 3, and the production of 
the certificate shall be a sufficient defence against any complaint 
which may be brought against the father or mother, or person 
having the care, nurture or custody of the child, for non-com- 
pliance with the provisions of this Act. 
(11) This section shall also apply to all children over the: 
age of three months who become resident in a municipality, 
and such children shall, for the purposes of this section, be 
considered as children born in the municipality at the date 
on which they became resident within it. 2 Geo. V. c. 59, 
s. 8. 
9. In all contracts made under the provisions of this Act 
the sums contracted to be paid shall not be more than twenty- 
five cents for each person successfully vaccinated, including 
all or any of the certificates required by this Act. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 59, s. 9. 
10. If the father or mother, or person having the care,: 
nurture or custody of a child, does not cause the child to be 
vaccinated within the periods prescribed by this Act, or does 
not, on the eight day after the vaccinated has been per- 
formed, take or icause to be taken the child for inspection, 
according to the provisions of this Act, the father or mother, or 
other person so offending shall incur a penalty not exceeding $5. 
2 Geo. V. c. 59, s. 10. 
ll.-(l) After the expiration of two months from the con- 
viction of any person for an offence against this Act, in 
respect of any child, no plea of such conviction shall be a 
sufficient defence against any complaint which may then be 
brought against the same or any other person for non-'com- 
pliance with the provisions of this Act in respect of the same 
child. 
(2) The production of a certificate, Form 1 or 3, under 
the hand of a legally qualified medical practitioner, shall be' 
a sufficient defence against such complaint ; but the production 
of a certificate, Form 2, shall not be a sufficient defence unless 
the vaccination is thereby postponed to a day subsequent to 
that on which the complaint is brought. 2 Geo. V. c. 59, 
s. 11. 
12.-(1) In every municipality where smallpox exists, or 
in which the Provincial or local board of health has notified 
the council that in its opinion there is danger of its breaking 
out owing to the facility of communication which infected 
localities, the council of the municipality shall order the vac- 
Children 
brought 
into muni- 
cipality. 
Fees under 
Penalty for 
non-compli- 
ance with 
the require- 
ments of 
this Act. 
How far and 
when plea 
of convic- 
tion shall 
avail. 
•Production 
of certifi- 
cates in 
L defence. 
Enforcing 
vaccination. 56 
cination or re-vaccination of all persons resident in the 
municipality who have not been vaccinated within seven 
years, and that such vaccination or re-vaccination shall be 
carried out in so far as the same may be applicable in the 
same manner as the vaccination of children, except that a 
person of fourteen years of age or over, but under the age of 
twenty-one years, who is not in the custody or under the 
control of his father or mother or of any other person, and 
every person of twenty-one years or over, shall present him- 
self for vaccination by the medical practitioner, or by some 
other legally qualified medical practitioner, and the medical 
practitioner shall adopt the same measures to secure the 
vaccination or re-vaccination of every such person as he is 
required to take with regard to children. 
(2) A proclamation issued by the head of the munici- 
pality, and published in posters and in at least one newspaper 
published within the municipality, or, if there is no such 
newspaper, in at least one newspaper published in the county 
or district in which such municipality is situate, warning the 
public that this section is in force shall be sufficient evidence 
to justify the conviction of any person who has failed to com- 
ply with the law within a period of seven days from the pub- 
lication of the proclamation. 
(3) Every member of a municipal council which neglects 
or refuses to make the order required by subsection 1 or to 
make proper provision for carrying the same into effect, 
shall incur a penalty not exceeding $25, unless he proves that 
he did everything in his power to secure the making of the 
order or the making of proper provision for carrying any 
such order into effect, and causes his protest against such 
refusal or neglect to be recorded in the proceedings of the 
council. 
(4) If the head of a municipality neglects or refuses to 
issue and publish the proclamation required by subsection 2 
he shall incur a penalty not exceeding $25. 
(5) Every person who wilfully neglects or refuses to obey 
the order of the council shall incur a penalty not exceeding $25. 
2 Geo. V. c. 58, s. 12. 
13.-(1) Where it is deemed necessary by the medical 
officer of health of any municipality, owing to the presence 
or threatened presence of smallpox, he may, with the approval 
of the local board of health, require certificates of successful 
vaccination or of insusceptibility on re-vaccination within 
seven years, of all pupils or students of a public, separate, 
continuation or high school or collegiate institute, and of a 
college or university, or of any other public or private insti- 
tution of learning within the municipality, to be presented to 
the proper authorities of the institution, and no pupil or 
prociama- 
of°munici^d 
paiity. 
Penalty for 
neglect by 
member of 
muni- 
cipality. 
By head of 
pdiPty.1' 
Penalty for 
obey^order 
of council. 
Vaccination 
of pupils 
and stu- 
dents. 57 
student refusing to produce such certificate on demand shall 
be admitted to further attendance in the institution until the 
certificate is furnished. 
(2) Any principal, teacher, superintendent or officer of 
any such institution who commits or is party or privy to any 
contravention of subsection 1 shall incur a penalty not ex- 
ceeding $20. 2 Geo. V. c. 59, s. 13. 
14. Any person who by inoculation with or by wilful 
exposure to various matter or by any matter, article or thing 
impregnated with variolous matter, or wilfully by any other 
means produces or attempts to produce the disease of smallpox 
in any person, shall upon conviction thereof be liable to im- 
prisonment for any term not exceeding one year. 2 Geo. V. 
c. 59, s. 14. 
15. If a legally qualified medical practitioner is convicted 
of an offence against section 14 his name shall be erased from 
the Register of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
Ontario, but the medical council at any time after the expiration 
of the term of imprisonment of any such person may restore his 
name to the Register. 2 Geo. V. c. 59, s. 15. 
16. Every prosecution under this Act shall take place before 
a police magistrate or two justices of the peace and The Ontario 
Summary Convictions Act shall apply thereto. 2 Geo. V. c. 59, 
s. 16. 
Penalty. 
Penalty for 
inoculating 
with 
variolous 
matter. 
C.S.C. c. 39, 
s. 1. R.S.O., 
1886. App. 
No. 1, p. 2. 
Erasure 
from 
register 
of medical 
council 
Prosecu- 
tions. 
Rev. Stat, 
c. 90. 
FORM 1. 
(Sections 8 and 11.) 
Certificate of Vaccination. 
I, the undersigned, a legally qualified medical practitioner, 
hereby certify that , the child of , aged , 
of Ward, in the City of (or as the case may he), 
has been successfully vaccinated by me. 
A.B. 
Dated this day of , 19 . 
2 Geo. V. c. 59, Form 1. 
FORM 2. 
(Sections 8 and 11.) 
Certificate of Unfitness for Vaccination. 
I, the undersigned, a legally qualified medical practitioner, 
hereby certify that I am of opinion that the child of 
, of Ward, in the City of 
(or aS the case may he), aged , is not now in a fit 
and proper state to be successfully vaccinated, and I do hereby 
postpone the vaccination until the day of 
A.B. 
Dated this day of . 19 
2 Geo. V. c. 59, Form 2. 58 
FORM 3. 
i 
(Sections 8 and 11.) 
Certificate of Insusceptibility to Vaccine Disease. 
I, the undersigned, a legally qualified medical practitioner, 
hereby certify that I am of the opinion that the child of 
, of Ward, in the City of 
(or as the case may he), is insusceptible of the vaccine disease. 
A.B. 
Dated this day of , 19 . 
2 Geo. V. c. 59,' Form 3. INDEX TO PUBLIC HEALTH ACT. 
SECTION. PAGE 
ABATTOIRS, MUNICIPAL, 
By-laws for establishing S. 104 39 
Competent person for inspection at S. 106 39 
Local Board to have control S. 105 39 
ACQUIRING LAND, 
In case of emergency, etc S. 50, 51 20 
ACT, ENFORCING, 
Assistance of constables S. 109 39 
Penalty for hindering S. 108 39 
ALGONQUIN PARK, 
Supt. ex-officio M.O.H S. 121 43 
ANIMALS, ETC., 
Inspection of S. 100 37 
BONES AND RAGS, 
.Storing of S. 85 31 
BREAD, 
Inspection of . S. 100 37 
BURYING GROUNDS, 
Where a nuisance S. 74 28 
BY-LAWS, 
Screwing for waterworks and sewers S. 95 35 
Re slaughter houses, cattle yards, etc S. 104 39 
" Schedule B " in force in every municipality S. 115 41 
CATTLE YARDS AND PENS, 
By-laws to establish S. 104 39 
CALVES, 
Under four weeks old not to be sold for food S. 103 38 
CHIEF OFFICER, 
Appointment S. 4 6 
Powers S. 12 10 
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, 
Disinfection in connection with ... a. SS. 62-69 23 
Examination of suspected cases S. 61 23 
Notice, removal, etc. .. .• S. 53, 54 21 
Precautions against spread of SS. 56, 58 22 
. Provisions as to SS. 53-72 21 
Recovery of expense incurred, etc S. 59 22 
Removal of patients, occupants, etc S. 60, 63 23 
Report by physicians, hospital superintendent, etc S. 55 21 
School attendance from houses where S. 72 25 
Duties local boards, teachers, etc S. 72 25 
CONFERENCE, ANNUAL, 
Of M.0.H S. 42 16 
CONVEYANCES, 
Disinfection, use of. etc S. 62, 67 23 
59 60 
SECTION PAGE 
DAIRIES, ETC. 
Inspection of S. 88 32 
DISINFECTION, 
Bedding, clothing, conveyances, etc SS. 62-69 23 
DISTRICTS AND DISTRICT OFFICERS S. 13 10 
DUTIES AND POWERS DISTRICT OFFICERS S. 13 11 
DRAINAGE, 
Where a nuisance S. 74 21" 
EXPENSES, 
Enforcement of Act S. 125 44 
Recovery of S. 34 15 
EXPOSED PERSONS AND THINGS, 
Precautions 'to be taken SS. 62-69 23 
FALSE STATEMENTS 
Re communicable disease S. 70 25 
FOOD SUPPLIES, 
Inspection of S. 100 37 
FISH, FLESH, FRUIT, ETC. 
Inspection of S. 100 37 
HOGS, 
Feeding certain things forbidden S. 101 38 
HOSPITALS, 
Approval of plans, regulations, etc SS. 47-48 19 
Consumptive SS. 44-45 17 
Emergency S. 49 19 
Isolation SS. 43-48 16 
Penalty for erection without permission S. 46 18 
ICE SUPPLIES, 
Regulations by Local Board S. 99 36 
INDIGENTS, 
Medical care of S. 52 21 
INSPECTION OF, 
Dairies, slaughter houses S. 88 32 
Food supplies S. 100 37 
Lodging houses, laundries,; placarding S. 86, 87 31 
Municipality-'Powers M.O.H. re nuisances SS. 75-79 28 
Slaughter houses S. 102 38 
Under Act-Penalty for hindering any S. 108, 109 39 
INSPECTOR, PROVINCIAL, 
Appointment . S. 4 6 
INTERPRETATION S. 2 4 
INVESTIGATIONS, 
Provincial Board may make S. 7 7 
ISOLATION HOSPITALS, 
Establishment of SS. 43-48 16 61 
SECTION PAGE 
LAUNDRIES, 
Inspection of S. 86, 87 31 
LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 
Appeal to County Judge from S. 33 14 
Assumption of defence, damages, etc S. 26 13 
Corporate name S. 15 12 
Duty of Board re Carrying out Act SS. 27-32 14 
Enforcing authority S. 25 13 
In every municipality, etc SS. 14-34 11 
May install sanitary conveniences S. 25 13 
Meetings SS. 16, 17 12 
Powers in default of local authorities S. 34 15 
Records, reports, etc SS. 23, 24 13 
Recovery of expenses S. 34 15 
Remuneration, expenses, etc SS. 21, 22 12 
Secretary to report, etc S. 18 12 
Vacancies, quorum, etc SS. 19, 20 12 
LODGING HOUSES, 
Inspection of, and placarding SS. 86, 87 31 
MEAT, 
Inspection of S. 100 37 
MEAT-PACKING ESTABLISHMENTS. 
Inspection of S. 107 39 
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, 
Annual conference .. .• S. 42 16 
Appointments S. 35 15 
Appointments, unorganized territory S. 122-123 43 
Executive officer of Board S. 38 16 
Salaries . , S. 39 16 
Tenure of office, dismassal SS. 36-37 15 
Vacancy, how filled S. 41 16 
MEETINGS, 
Number held, quorum, rules, etc , S. 5 6 
' MILK, 
Inspection of '..... S. 100 37 
MUNICIPAL ABATTOIRS, ETC., 
Establishment of SS. 104,105 39 
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, 
Postponement of during epedemic S. 116 41 
NUISANCES, 
Examination of by M.O.H. or Sanitary Inspector S. 76 28 
Expenses re abatement of S. 82 29 
Inspection of municipality, and power of M.O.H SS. 75-79 28 
Particular . . . S. 74 26 
Removal, abatement, etc SS. 73-85 26 
Service of notice requiring abatement S. 79 28 
What to be deemed a S. 73 26 
When application to Supreme Court necessary S. 83 30 
When out of the municipality S. 80 29 
Where considerations of difficulty S. 81 29 
NURSES, 
Precautions to be taken by S. 64 24 
OCCUPANTS, 
Where communicable dis SS. 54. 63, 64 21 62 
SECTION PAGE 
offensive Grades, 
Restrictions of S. 84, 85 30 
OVERCROWDED HOUSES, 
When a nuisance S. 74 27 
PATIENTS, 
Precautions to be taken re S. 64 24 
PENALTIES, 
Recovery of SS. 110-113 40 
For refusal or neglect S. 98 36 
PLACARDING, 
Premises if unfit or dangerous S. 87 32 
POLICE MAGISTRATE, 
Ex-officio M.O.H. in unorganized territory S. 119 43 
POLLUTION OF, 
Streams, etc., and water supplies forbidden S. 91, 93 33 
POSTPONEMENT, 
Municipal and school elections during epidemic S. 116 41 
POULTRY, 
Inspection of S. 100 37 
POVERTY, 
a Proceedings barred by S. 114 41 
PREMISES, 
Examination of, by M.O.H. or Sanitary Inspector S. 76 28 
Placarding, if unfit or dangerous S. 87 32 
When a nuisance S. 74 26 
PROCEEDINGS, ORDERS, ETC., 
Not quashed for want of form S. 126 44 
PROSECUTION, 
Poverty bars S. 114 41 
PROVINCIAL BOARD, 
Duties and powers S. 6 6 
How constituted S. 3 5 
Investigation re disease, unsanitary conditions, etc. .. S. 7 7 
May make regulations S. 8 8 
RAGS AND BONES, 
Appeal as to storage S. 85 31 
Storing of S. 85 31 
REFUSE, 
When a nuisance S. 74 27 
REGULATIONS, 
Existing, continued, except S. 127 44 
Provincial Board may make S. 8-11 8 
SALARIES, 
M.O.H and Sanitary Inspector, unorganized districts .. S. 124 43 
SANITARY INSPECTORS, 
Appointments, tenure of office, dismissal SS. 35-37 15 
Ex-officio every constable in unorganized district S. 120 43 
Provincial Board may appoint in unorganized district..' S. 123 43 
Salary S. 40 16 63 
SECTION PAGE 
"SCHEDULE A" 45 
/ 
"SCHEDULE B," 
By-law in force in every municipality 45 
SCHOOL ELECTION, 
Postponement of during epidemic S. 116 41 
SEWERAGE SYSTEMS AND SEWERS, 
By-laws re debentures S. 95 35 
Disposal plant in adjoining township S. 94 35 
Establishment of SS. 94-97 34 
Maintenance, penalty S. 97-98 36 
Plans to be submitted, etc S. 94 34 
Powers of urban municip. after Prov. Board approval ... S. 94 35 
When assent of electors not required S. 96 35 
SHORT TITLE S. 1 4 
SLAUGHTER HOUSES, 
By-laws for establishing S. 104 39 
s Competent persons for inspection at S. 106 39 
Inspection of S. 88 32 
Inspection of, and affidavit, etc. ...<". S. 102 38 
SMOKE, 
Where a nuisance S. 74 27 
STABLES, 
When a nuisance S. 74 27 
SUMMER RESORTS, .... 
Residents not to pollute S. 91 33 
TRADES, 
Restriction of offensive S. 84, 85 30 
When a nuisance S. 74 27 
TRANSPORTATION OF, 
Corpses s. 71 25 
Infected persons or things S. 71 25 
UNORGANIZED TERRITORIES, 
Constable is ex-officio Sanitary Inspector S. 120 43 
Police (Magistrate is ex-officio M.0,H S. 119 43 
Provincial Board may make regulations S. 118 42 
Provincial Board may appoint Sanitary Inspector S. 123 43 
Salaries for M.0.IH. and Sanitary Inspector S. 124 43 
The Lt.-Governor may appoint M.O.H S. 122 43 
Without municipal organization SS. 117-124 42 
VEGETABLES, 
Inspection of S. 100 37 
VENTILATION, 
Where lack of, is a nuisance S. 74 27 
WATER SUPPLY, 
By-law council to pass, etc S. 96 36 
Electors, where assent of not required, etc S. 96 35 
Plans submitted to Provincial Board S. 89 32 
Pollution forbidden, penalty s' 93 33 
Provincial Board to have supervision of streams S. 90 33 
Provincial waters not to be polluted S. 91 33 
(Public) Installation of; plans, etc SS rq.qq s? 
Repairs and renewals, etc s 97 36 
Returns to be made to Provincial Board s 92 33 
When a nuisance '..... s 74 27 INDEX TO VACCINATION ACT. 
SECTION PAGE 
CERTIFICATE, 
of successful vaccination of child S. 8 53 
of unfitness for vaccination S. 8 54 
of insusceptibility S. 8 55 
of successful vaccination of all pupils of all schools .. S. 13 56 
DISPENSARIES, 
See Hospitals. 
ENFORCEMENT, 
by Municipal Council . S. 12 55 
by proclamation by head of municipality S. 12 56 
penalty for default by municipal officers S. 12 56 
penalty for person not complying S. 12 56 
FEES, 
for vaccine at hospitals S. 2 51 
in physicians' contracts S. 9 55 
report of, to be made by Hospitals S. 4 52 
HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES, • 
to keep supply of vaccine matter and to provide for 
vaccination of persons applying for same S. 2 51 
to file certificate that same is kept on hand S. 3 51 
to report to Provincial Secretary number of applications, 
fees, etc., received S. 4 52 
to supply medical practitioners with vaccine matter .. S. 2 51 
to supply Indian Department officers with vaccine matter S. 2 51 
INOCULATION WITH VARIOLUS MATTER, 
forbidden S. 14 57 
if by physican, penalty S. 15 57 
LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 
may employ physican for public vaccination on default 
of municipal council S. 6 52 
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, 
may demand certificate of successful vaccination from all 
pupils attending school S. 13 56 
MUNICIPAL COUNCILS, 
to contract with physicians for public vaccination .... S. 5 „ 52 
to appoint convenient place for same S. 7 53 
enforce Act by ordering general vaccination S. 12 55, 
in default, penalty S. 12 56 
PARENTS, 
bound to have children vaccinated within three months 
after birth S. 8 53 
to take child to physician 8 days after vaccination per- 
formed, for inspection S. 8 53 
penalty for non-compliance S. 10 55 
PENALTIES, 
of parents S. 10 55 
of persons S. 12 56 
of head of municipality S. 12 56 
of members of municipal council S. 12 56 
oT physicians S. 15 57 
64 65 
SECTION. PAGE 
PRINCIPALS, ETC., OF SCHOOLS, 
if party to contravention of Act, penalty S. 13 57 
PROSECUTIONS, 
Ontario Summary Convictions Act to apply S. 16 57 
REVACCINATION, 
ordered by municipal council S. 12 55 
VACCINE MATTER, 
to be kept on hand by hospitals and dispensaries to be 
supplied to medical practitioners and officers of 
Indian Department S. 2 51 
VACCINATION, 
of children S. 8 53 
of Indians S. 2 51 
general, provided by municipal council S. 5, 7 52 
by Local Board S. 6 52 RA185 
' .05A7 
Ontario, The public health act '(5516) 
With amendments of years 1914 and 1915. • . •