If a local authority are satisfied that a person lodging in a common lodging-house is suffering from a notifiable disease and that serious risk of infection is thereby caused to other persons, and that accommodation for him is available in a suitable hospital or institution, they may, with the consent of the superintending body of the hospital or institution, order him to be removed thereto and maintained therein at their cost.
The officer of the local authority to whom an order under this section is addressed and any officer of the hospital or institution in question may do all acts necessary for giving effect to the order.