If in any local area, any infectious disease transmissible to man breaks out or is in the opinion of the Health Officer likely to break out, amongst cattle, or other animals, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer to recommend to the local authority the adoption of such measures as he may deem necessary for suppressing or mitigating the disease or for preventing the outbreak or threatened outbreak thereof; and the local authority shall consider such recommendations and take such action thereon as to it may seem suitable.
PART I[l—Notified infectious diseases.
60. Notified diseases—In this Part, “notified diseases’ means— ;
(a) anthrax,
(b) chickenpox,
(ec) cholera,
(d) diphtheria,
(e) enteric fever,
(f) malaria,
(gz) measles,
(h) mumps, .
(i) plague, "
(j) rabies,
(k) small-pox,
(1) tuberculosis, (infective types)
(m) whooping cough, and
(n) any other disease which the Government may, from time to time, by notification, declare to be a notified disease for the purpose of this Part either generally throughout the State or in such part or parts thereof as may be specified in the notification.
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61. Occupation of houses to prevent the spread of infectron—
(1) The Health Officer may, in case of emergency, with the sanction of the Collector, enter upon, occupy and use, or depute any person to enter upon, occupy and use, without having recourse to the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act for the time being in force, any building or place which, in the opinion of the Health Officer, 1s required, and 1s suitable for any purposes connected with the prevention or control of infection from a notified disease:
Provided that, if the building or place 1s occupied, notice shall be given in writing to the occupant or be conspicuously affixed on such building or place, not less than forty-eight hours before it 1s entered upon.
(2) The owner or lessee of such building or place shall be entitled to compensation for any damage or expenses incurred and to a reasonable rent for the period during which it had been occupied or used for any of the purposes referred to in subeen (1). Such compensation and rent shall be fixed by the ollector.
(3) The compensation fixed under sub-section (2) shall be paid by the local authority concerned.
(4) The Health Officer shall, when any such building or place ceases to be occupied or used for any of the purposes aforesaid, cavse it to be thoroughly disinfected and cleansed.
62. Information regarding notified diseases— Every medical practitioner who, in the course of his practice, becomes cognizant of the existence of any notified disease in any private or public dwelling other than a public hospital, and every manager of any factory or public building, every keeper of a lodging house, every head of a family and every owner or occupier of a house, who knows or has reason to believe that any person in any premises under his management, control or occupation 1s suffering from, or has died of, a notified disease, shall, 1f the case has not been already reported, give information of the same with the least practicable delay—
(a) in urban local areas, to the executive authority, the Health Officer or a Sanitary Inspector; and
(b) in other areas, to the Health Officer, a Health or Sanitary Inspector, Sanitary Assistant or Conservancy Overseer.
63. Power of entry of local officers to take preventive measures— (1) The Health Officer or an officer not below the rank of a Sanitary Inspector authorised by him in this behalf may—
(a) at all reasonable hours, inspect with or without assistance any place in which any notified disease is reported or suspected to exist, without notice in the 93 . ease of factories, workshops, workplaces, offices, business places and the like and after giving such notice as may appear to him reasonable in other eases including dwelling houses, and
(b) take such measures as he may consider necessary to prevent the spread of such disease beyond such place.
(2) The powers conferred by sub-section (1) on the Health Officer may in any local area be exercised also by the executive authority or an officer not below the rank of Sanitary Inspector authorised by such authority.