If a nuisance under this Act within or affecting any part of a local area appears to be wholly or partly caused by some act or default committed or taking place outside such local area, the local authority may, after consulting the Director of Public Health, take or cause to be taken against any person in respect of such act or default any proceedings in relation to nuisance authorised by this Act in the like cases and with the lke incidents and consequences as if the act or default were committed or took place wholly within such local area.
49. Prohibition of the deposit of rubbish eic., in street etc —~
(1) No person shal] deposit or cause or suffer any member of his family or household to deposit any carcasses of animals, any dust, dirt, dung, ashes or refuse or filth of any kind, any animal matter, any broken glass, earthenware or other rubbish, or any other thing which is or may be a nuisance, in any street or in any drain beside a street or on any open space (not being private property) or on any quay, jetty or landing place, wharf or oh any part of the seashore, or on the bank of any watercourse, except in such receptacles as may be provided or at such place, in such manner and at such hours, as may be fixed by the Health Officer.
(2) No person shall ease himself, or cause, permit or suffer any member of his family or house-hold to ease himself in any such street, drain, open space, quay, jetty, landing place, wharf, seashore or bank aforesaid. nF
(3) Any person easing himself in any private open space shall immediately cover up the excreta with earth.
_ CHAPTER VII PREVENTION, NOTIFICATION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES
PART 1I—Infectwus diseases n general, 50 Infectious diseases.—For the purpose of this part “infectious disease” means—
(a) actue infiuenzal (i) malaria, pneumonia, '
(b) anthrax, (i) measles,
(c) cerebro-spinal fever (k) mumps, .(d) chickenpox, (1) ophthalmia,
(e) cholera, (m) plague,
(f) diphtheria, (n) Poliomyalitis,
(g) dysentery, (o) rabies,
(h) enteric fever, (p) relapsing fever, 88
(q) small-pox, (s) typhus,
(r) tuberculosis (t) whooping cough, (infective types, ) (u) yaws, or
(v) any other disease which the Government may, from time to time, by notification, declare to be an infectious disease either generally throughout the State or in such part or parts thereof as may be specified in the notification.
51. Appointment of additional health staff—(1) In the event of the prevalence or threatened out-break of any infectious disease in any local area, or of any unusual mortality therein, the local authority concerned shall provide such additional staff, medicines, appliances, equipment and other things as may, in the opinion of the Health Officer, be necessary for the treatment of such infectious disease and preventing it from spreading, or for investigating the cause of such mortality, and preventing it, as the case may be:
Provided that, 1f the local authority does not agree with the opinion of the Health Officer, the matter shall be referred to the Director of Public Health, whose decision shall be final.
(2) In the event aforesaid, if the Health Officer considers that immediate action is necessary in the interests of public health, he may, notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (1), appoint such additional staff and. obtain such medicines appliances equipment and other things as may be neccssary and the expenses incurred in respect thereof shall be met from the funds of the local authority.
(3) Every appointment made under sub-section (2) shall be reported forthwith to the executive authority and hy such authority to the local authority concerned at its next meeting.