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(1) In the event of any person within the City, other than an in-patient in a public hospital, being attacked with a dangerous diseases-- (a) every medical practitioner or person openly and usually practising the medical profession, who in the course of such practice becomes cognizant of the fact, and (b) the occupier of the building in which the person so attacked may be residing or, if the occupier is himself the person attacked, then every adult member of the household, and (c) every person in charge of or in attendance on any person so attacked, shall as soon as he becomes cognizant of the fact, forthwith report the same, or cause a report thereof to be made to the Medical Officer of Health: Provided that no person shall be bound to make such report or to cause such report to be made, if such report has been so made. (2) The owner or person in whose custody any animal may be which is suffering from an infectious or contagious disease shall, as soon as he becomes cognizant of the fact, report the same, or cause a report thereof to be made, to the Medical Officer of Health: Provided that no person shall be bound to make such report or to cause such report to be made, if such report has been so made.