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that the provisions of this Ordinance are capable of application to their residential quarters, he may, by Order in Council notified in the Government Gazette, apply the provisions of this Ordinance to the residential quarters of such labourers with such modifications as may be necessary for the purpose.
Notification 4. Where any superintendent has reason to believe that any disease prevails among the resident labourers of his estate, he shall give notice in writing in the pre- prevalence of scribed manner to the district medical officer and request his assistance in the treat-
ment of the disease.
disease.
Inspection of
by district
medical officer,
5. Where a district medical officer receives a notice under the last preceding infected estate section, or where he has otherwise reason to believe that any disease is prevalent upon an estate, he may enter upon the estate and inspect all the labourers and the sanitary condition of the coolie lines of the estate, and give such directions as he may consider necessary for the treatment of the disease.
Treatment of labourers on infected estate
Exceptional In essures where disease prevalent to
Aggravated
extent.
Power of Governor to carry out such
Incanures
estate.
6. In any such case the district medical officer may-
(a) Require any labourer to be removed to hospital;
(b) Require the superintendent to treat the labourers in the prescribed
manner in such convenient batches as he may indicate;
(c) By notice in writing require the superintendent to treat in the pre-
scribed manner all the labourers of the estate--
and it shall be the duty of the superintendent to carry out all such requirements.
7. (1) Where the Principal Civil Medical Officer is satisfied that disease
any prevails upon an estate to such an extent or under such conditions that it cannot be effectively treated under the provisions of the last preceding section, he may direct a medical officer of his department to inspect the estate.
(2) In any such case the medical officer so authorized shall enter upon the estate and inspect the labourers, coolie lines, latrines, bathing places, and water supply, and to do all things necessary to enable him to report to the Principal Civil Medical Officer as to the measures to be taken for the treatment of the disease upon the estate.
(3) The Principal Civil Medical Officer, upon receiving the said report, may thereupon, by a notice in writing, require the superintendent to carry out such measures, not being measures provided for by Section 9, as in the opinion of the Principal Civil Medical Officer are necessary for the purpose aforesaid, and it shall thereupon become the duty of the superintendent to carry out all such measures accordingly:
Provided that where the expense involved by any such notice exceeds an amount of 2 rupees per cultivated acre of the estate, an appeal shall lie to the Governor in Executive Council.
8. (1) If within three months from the date of the receipt of the said notice the superintendent shall not have carried out the measures required by the said notice to the satisfaction of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, it shall be lawful at expense of for the Governor, on receiving a report to that effect from the Principal Civil Medical
Officer, to cause the said measures to be effectively carried out upon the estate.
(2) The cost of any such measures so carried out shall be a debt to the Crown recoverable from the owner of the estate, and shall constitute a charge on the estate. (3) The sum so due shall be recoverable in the manner prescribed by Chapter V.
Power of
Governor to condemn
insanitary coolie lines.
of the Medical Wants Ordinance, No. 9 of 1912.
9. (1) In any case in which any medical officer charged with the duty of the inspection of estates shall report that any set of coolie lines is constructed in such a position or under such conditions that any disease prevalent or liable to become prevalent therein cannot be effectively controlled, and that the said set of coolie lines is not capable of adaptation for its effective control, it shall be lawful for the Governor to condemn such set of coolie lines, and to order its reconstruction to his satisfaction upon such site and under such conditions as shall be suitable for the purpose of the prevention of the spread of the disease, and it shall be the duty of the superintendent to carry out such order.
(2) If within three months of the communication of such order to the superin- tendent, or such further time as may be directed in the order, the superintendent shall not have complied therewith, it shall be lawful for the Governor to carry out the measures directed by such order, and the expenses thereof shall be a debt to the Crown recoverable from the owner of the estate, and shall constitute a charge upon the estate.
(3) The sum so due shall be recoverable in the manner prescribed by Chapter V. of the Medical Wants Ordinance, No. 9 of 1912.
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dent may
10. (1) A superintendent may require any labourer employed upon an estate, Superinten whether resident upon the estate or otherwise, to submit to such treatment as may require Lab- be prescribed or otherwise lawfully directed under this Ordinance.
(2) It shall be the duty of every such labourer, when so required by the super-mit to treat- intendent, to attend at all reasonable times and places and to submit to such ment.
treatment.
ourers and others to sub-
11. It shall be the duty of a superintendent to notify the district medical officer Superinten if he has reason to believe that any disease prevails in the immediate vicinity of his medical officer
estate.
dent to notify
12. (1) The Principal Civil Medical Officer, with the approval of the Governor Rules. in Executive Council, may make rules for the whole Colony, or for any portion of the Colony, for the treatment of diseases under this Ordinance, and for the sanitation of coolie lines with a view to the prevention of the spread of diseases, and in par- ticular for the following purposes:
(a) For the location of new coolie lines.
(b) For the provision and regulation of latrines.
(c) For the daily removal and disposition of excreta.
(d) For the provision of a surrounding area round each set of coolie
lines clear of vegetation.
(e) For the drainage of coolie lines and their surrounding area.
(A) For the proper construction and drainage of bathing places. (g) For the provision of water supply.
(2) All such rules shall be laid as soon as conveniently may be before the Legis- lative Council, and if a resolution is passed within 40 days of their being laid before the Legislative Council praying that any rule shall be annulled, such rule shall thenceforth be void, but without prejudice to anything done thereunder.
13. There shall be submitted to the Medical Wants Committee for consideration Consultation and advice all rules proposed to be made under the Ordinance.
of Medical
Wants Com. mittee.
Offences.
14. (1) Any person who without reasonable excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon such person, shall—
(a) Make default in the performance of any obligation imposed upon him by this Ordinance, or any rule or order made under this Ordinance;
(b) Wilfully obstruct any medical officer or any person lawfully acting under his direction in discharge of the duties of such medical officer under this Ordinance, or any rule or order made under this Ordinance
shall be guilty of an offence, and liable to a fine not exceeding 500 rupees, or to imprisonment of either description not exceeding one month.
(2) Such fine shall be recoverable before a Police Magistrate, notwithstanding any limitation of his ordinary jurisdiction.
Passed in Council the Thirty-first day of May, One thousand Nine hundred and Twelve.
A. G. CLAYTON,
Clerk to the Council.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor the Twenty-first day of June, One thousand Nine hundred and Twelve.
HUGH CLIFFORD,
Colonial Secretary.
[EXTRACT FROM THE "CEYLON GOVERNMENT Gazette," No. 6,571 of 11TH JULY, 1913.]
"THE DISEASES (LABOURERS) ORDINANCE, No. 10 of 1912."
It is hereby notified that the following rules under section 12 of "The Diseases (Labourers) Ordinance, No. 10 of 1912," applicable to the whole Colony, have been made by the Principal Civil Medical Officer, with the approval of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government in Executive Council.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Colombo, 9th July, 1913,
By His Excellency's command,
L. W. BOOTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
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