If a medical officer of health has reasonable grounds for believing that there is in a common lodging-house a person who is suffering, or has recently-suffered, from a notifiable disease, he may make complaint thereof upon oath to a justice of the peace, and thereupon the justice may by warrant authorise him to enter the lodging-house and examine any person found therein with a view to ascertaining whether he is suffering, or has recently suffered, from such a disease.
Section 243: Power of justice to order medical examination of inmates of common lodging-house.
Public Health Act 1936 · 1936 c. 49View on legislation.gov.uk
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Part IX: Common Lodging-houses.
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