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Home Dictionary Name: infectiousInfectious diseases
Infectious diseases. It is an indictable offence to expose in a public frequented highway a person suffering from an infectious disorder, R. v. Vantandillo, (1815) 4 M. & S. 73. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), ss. 143 to 180, repealing (from October, 1937) ss. 120-143 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, contains various provisions calculated to prevent the spread of dangerous infectious diseases.Notification.--The (English) Public health Act, 1936, also repeals (from October, 1937) the (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 72), and enjoins the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of the district of certain specific diseases therein named, and also of other diseases added to the list by the local authority, s. 343 enacting that 'notifiable disease.'--Means any of the following diseases, namely, small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fe...
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)]...
Infectiously
In an infectious manner...
Infectiousness
The quality of being infectious...
Bill of health
Bill of health, 'a certificate or instrument, signed by consuls or other proper authorities, delivered to the masters of ships at the time of their clearing out from ports or places suspected of being particularly subject to infectious disorders, certifying the state of health at the time that such ship sailed. A clean bill imports that at the time the ship sailed no infectious disorder was known to exist. A suspected bill, commonly called a touched patent or bill, imports that there were rumours of an infectious disorder, but it had not actually appeared. A foul bill, or the absence of a clean bill, imports that the place was infected when the vessel sailed.'-McCull. Com. Dict. see QUARANTINE....
noninfectious
not infectious of diseases Opposite of infectious...
Adoptive Act of Parliament
Adoptive Act of Parliament, an Act which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner prescribed therein, by the local authorities or inhabitants of that area, e.g.:-The (English) Vestries Act, 1831 (repealed as to rural parishes by the (English) Local Government Act, 1894).Also the following, which in rural parishes can only be adopted by Parish Meetings:--The (English) Lighting and Watching Act, 1833. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Gas.'The (repealed) (English) Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846 to 1899, and London Government Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 14). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Baths.'The (English) Burial Acts, 1852 to 1906. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Burial.'The (English) Public Improvements Acts. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Public Improvements.'The (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1879--made general in England by Act of 1899: The Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890 (all repealed): The (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,...
Disease (poultry)
Disease (poultry), means fowl pest in any of its form (including Newcastle disease and fowl plague) fowl cholera, infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngotra cheitis, pullorum disease, fowl typhoid, fowl pox and fowl paralysis; but the ministers may be order extend the definition to include other bird diseases or restrict it so as to exclude any of the foregoing diseases expert fowl pest in any of its forms, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 517, p. 286....
Endemic disease
Endemic disease. A disease habitually prevalent in a certain country and due to permanent local causes, Oxf. Dict. Public Health Act, 1936, Part V. (ss. 143 et seq.), repealing and extending the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, empowers the local authority to make regulations to prevent the spreading of any formidable epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease. See INFECTIOUS DISEASE....
Bacterium
A microscopic single celled organism having no distinguishable nucleus belonging to the kingdom Monera Bacteria have varying shapes usually taking the form of a jointed rodlike filament or a small sphere but also in certain cases having a branched form Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll but in those members of the phylum Cyanophyta the blue green algae other light absorbing pigments are present They are the smallest of microscopic organisms which have their own metabolic processes carried on within cell membranes viruses being smaller but not capable of living freely The bacteria are very widely diffused in nature and multiply with marvelous rapidity both by fission and by spores Bacteria may require oxygen for their energy producing metabolism and these are called aerobes or may multiply in the absence of oxygen these forms being anaerobes Certain species are active agents in fermentation while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases The branch of science with ...
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