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Home Dictionary Name: contagious diseasesInfectious 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 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 They were in force at certain naval and military stations, and were repealed in 1886 by 49 & 50 Vict.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....
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...
Contagious
Communicable by contact by a virus or by a bodily exhalation catching as a contagious disease...
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)....
Cattle
Cattle [derived by Skinner, Menage, and Spelman fr. Capitalia, quac aspr copr ad caput pertinent, personal goods; in which sense Chttels is yet used. Mandeville uses Catele for price], beasts of pasture, either wild or domestic.The term, though often limited to horned domestic animals, may include (see Wright v. Pearson, LR 4 QB 582) horses and sheep; and also pigs and asses, R. v. Chapple, Russ & Ry. 77; R. v. Whitney, 1 Mood. 3.Means bulls, cows, steers, heifers and calves, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 483, p. 246 [Animal Health Act, 1981, s. 89(1) (UK)]As to injury to cattle by a dog, see Dogs Act, 1906, in which, by s. 7, 'cattle' includes 'horses, mules, asses, goats and swine.' See Dog.As to larceny of cattle, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3, and as to killing cattle, etc., with intent to steal the carcase, skin, or any part of the animal killed, see s. 4.As to the malicious wounding of cattle, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 40 and 41.As to the prevention o...
Infectious disease
Any disease caused by the entrance growth and multiplication of microorganisms in the body a germ disease It may not be contagious...
Disease
Disease, means an impairment or the normal state or the living animal that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions being a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate) or to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses) or to inherent defects of the organism (as various genetic anomalies) or to combinations of these factors, State of Goa v. Colfox Laboratories Ltd., (2004) 9 SCC 83: AIR 2004 SC 45(50).Means cattle plague or rinderpest, contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep scab or swine fever. Animal Health Act, 1981 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 484, p. 247....
Lazaret
A public building hospital or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons particularly those affected with contagious diseases...
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