Cap. 36 Art. 45Medical practitioners to placethemselvesat the service of persons suffering from disease.

Whenever any part of Malta is affected by any epidemic disease, the medical practitioners exercising their profession within the district affected by the disease, as well as the district medical officer and any other medical practitioner engaged by the

Government to give his services in such district during the prevalence of such disease, shall place themselves at the service of the persons suffering from such disease within the district.