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106.-(1) If in the opinion of the Health Officer it is necessary in the interests of the public health that the persons after removal residing in a building or part of a building which is infected shall be removed, the Health Officer may direct that such building or part thereof shall be temporarily closed for such time as in necessary to secure its thorough disinfection and the disinfection or destruction of all infected articles contained therein, and it shall not be lawful for any person to reoccupy such building or part thereof until it has been thoroughly cleansed and disinfected as aforesaid.
(2) Such cleansing and disinfection may, with the approval of the Health Officer, be done in whole or in part by the inmates or by persons engaged by them; and further if in the opinion of the Health Officer it is necessary for the thorough purification and disinfection of such premises to take down any lath and plaster or other hollow partition wall or any partition, screen, panelling, wainscotting, skirting, stair- lining, ceiling, or other similar structure or any fittings or any portion of such wall, structure or fitting, the Health Officer shall forthwith have the same taken down, and if he considers their removal from the premises or the destruction thereof or both to be necessary in the interests of the public health, he shall forthwith cause the same to be removed from the premises or destroyed or both.
(3) Such destruction shall be carried out with such precautions and in such manner as he may deem proper, and compensation for such removal or destruction shall be given by the Governor unless it is proved that the wall, structure or fitting removed or destroyed had been unlawfully erected or maintained,
Cleansing and
(4) Such compensation shall be calculated so as to cover the cost of making good the portions of the building damaged by such removal, including the limewashing of any exposed surface and the rebuilding of any necessary wall in materials approved by the Governor but no compensation shall be payable for any loss of rent or deterioration in the value of the property occasioned or alleged to be occasioned by the operation of these provisions.
(5) The Governor shall decide in each case whether the compensation, if any, is to be paid to the owner or occupier and payment in accordance with the decision of the Governor shall bar any further claim to compensation by owner or occupier; provided that nothing in these regulations shall affect the rights of the owners or occupiers inter se as to the ultimate apportionment of any compensation awarded.
107. If the Health Officer is of opinion that the cleans- disinfection ing or disinfection of a building or part of a building or of any article therein likely to retain infection would tend
of buildings
as a check
of disease.
to the spread to prevent or check the spread of any infectious disease, leprosy or tuberculosis, he may by notice in writing require the owner or occupier to cleanse, or disinfect the same in the manner therein specified.
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108. When in the opinion of the Health Officer the Power of owner or occupier is from poverty or otherwise unable officer to effectually to carry out the said requirements the Health cleanse and Officer may cleanse or disinfect or cause to be cleansed or buildings disinfected the building or buildings or part of the same and and their any articles therein at the expense of the Government.
contents.
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109.-(1) After the removal of any person suffering Disinfection from an infectious disease from any house the Health Officer of premises shall cause the room which such person, occupied, and any without other portion of the house which the Health Officer deems to after be infected, to be thoroughly disinfected, and the house may removal be closed for such period as the Health Officer directs.
(2) No person except the Health Officer or persons authorised by him shall enter such room or house during such period.
closure
of cases.
110. In the event of the death of any person from Action with infectious disease the Health Officer shall take the necessary infectious
regard to action to prevent the spread of infection from the corpse. corpses. The clothing, bedding and all personal effects of the deceased, that are liable, in the opinion of the Health Officer, to carry infection, shall be disinfected or if the Health Officer so order, be destroyed by fire, and no person shall be entitled to claim compensation as a right for the destruction of any such article.
of cost of
ment of
111. The Urban Council shall have power by officers of Recovery the Council to enter and to cleanse and to disinfect any disinfection premises where any person suffering from plague, cholera or and pay- smallpox or any other contagious or infectious disease, is or compensation has been, or is recently suspected to have been, recently for damage. located, and the Council may recover the cost of such dis- infection and cleansing from the house holder; but compensa tion may be given to such house holder for any bedding, clothing or other articles which have been destroyed during such cleansing or disinfection :
Provided that where the case of infection has been duly reported no charge shall be made for the cost of such cleansing and disinfection, and reasonable compensation for property destroyed or damaged shall in such case be given.
Part IV.
tion.
RELATING TO ANIMALS.
112. In this part unless the context otherwise requires Interpreta
(a) Animals' include cattle, sheep, goats, and all other ruminating animals, and swine and equines,
(b) Authorised landing place' means any place declared by this Ordinance or by regulations or by-laws made there- under to be an authorised landing place and any other place declared by the Urban Council and notified in the Gazette to be a landing place.
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