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Cleansing and disinfection

of buildings as a check

to the spread

of disease.

Power of Health Officer to cleanse and disinfect buildings and their contents.

Disinfection

with or without

(2) Such cleansing and disinfection may, with the approval of such 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 such 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 such Health Officer may deem proper, and compensation for such removal or destruc- tion 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.

(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 this section shall affect the rights of the owners or occupiers inter se as to the ultimate apportionment of any compensation awarded.

101. If a Health Officer is of opinion that the cleans- ing or disinfection of a building or part of a building or of any article therein likely to retain infection would tend 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.

102. When in the opinion of a Health Officer the owner or occupier is from poverty or otherwise unable effectually to carry out the said requirements, the Health Officer may cleanse or disinfect or cause to be cleansed or disinfected the building or buildings or part of the same and any articles therein at the expense of the Government.

103. (1) After the removal of any person suffering of premises from an infectious disease from any house a Health Officer shall cause the room which such person occupied, and any other portion of the house which such Health Officer deems to be infected, to be thoroughly disinfected, and the house may be closed for such period as he may direct.

closure

after

removal

of cases,

(2) No person except a Health Officer or persons authorised by him shall enter such room or house during such period.

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