2. Interpretation
In these Regulations—
“carrier” means a person or animal who without symptoms or apparent signs of a communicable disease harbours the specific infective agent and may serve as a source of infection;
“communicable disease” means any disease specified in Schedule 1;
“contact” means a person who has presumably been exposed to risk of infection from a communicable disease and is within the incubation period of the disease;
“disinfection” means the destroying of pathogenic agents by chemical physical or other means;
“hospital” means any premises or vessel for the reception of patients whether permanently or temporarily used for that purpose, and shall include a nursing home registered as such under the Nursing Home Law;
“isolation” means the separation of an infected person from other persons in such a manner as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance or transmission of infecting agents or organisms to other persons;
“isolation station” includes any hospital, house or part of a house or place in which any patient or contact is isolated;
“notifiable disease” means any disease specified in Schedules 1 and 2;
“public building” means a building used or constructed or adapted to be used, either ordinarily or occasionally as a church or chapel or other place of public worship, or as a hospital almshouse, college, school, theatre, public concert room, public ball room, public lecture room or public exhibition room, or as a public place of assembly, for persons admitted thereto by tickets or any other place used for any public purpose;
“venereal disease” means gonorrhoea, gonorrheal opthalmia, syphilis, soft chancre venereal warts, granulomar inguinale, lymphoranuloma.