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Infectious or contagious disease

Infectious or contagious disease, means cholera, leprosy, enteric fever, small-pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, plague influenza venereal disease, and any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be, an infectious or contagious disease for the purposes of this Act. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2 (xvii)]...


Contagious

Communicable by contact by a virus or by a bodily exhalation catching as a contagious disease...


Contagious disease

A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it or with some secretion of or object touched by such a patient Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs Many germ diseases are not contagious some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required...


Contagiously

In a contagious manner...


Contagiousness

Quality of being contagious...


Contagious diseases

Contagious diseases. See ANIMALS; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH....


Contagious Diseases Prevention Acts (English)

Contagious Diseases Prevention Acts (English) (29 Vict. c. 35, and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 96). These Acts, sometimes termed the C.D. Acts, were passed to prevent 'venereal diseases, including gonorrh'a,' by the medical examination and detention of prostitutes. They were in force at certain naval and military stations, and were repealed in 1886 by 49 & 50 Vict. c. 10. See Amos on the Laws for the Regulation of Vice....


Glandered horses

Glandered horses. By 32 & 33 Vict. c. 70, ss. 57 and 60, penalties were imposed on persons bringing glandered horses, etc., into markets, etc., and provision is made for their seizure, slaughter, and burial; but the (English) Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 74), which repeals and replaces that Act, contains no such express provision, although by s. 32, sub-s. xxxii., it gave the Privy Council power to apply its provisions to horses and glanders and farcy; and the (English) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, s. 22, sub-ss. Xxxv. And xxxvi., appears to give a similar power to the Ministry of Agriculture by general words. See CONTAGIOUS DIESEASES (ANIMALS)....


Catching

Infectious contagious...


Contagionist

One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases as of yellow fever...


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