Every local authority shall be bound to carry out such measures pertaining to maternity and child welfare as may be prescribed.
CHAPTER IX Mosquito CONTROL
88. Prohibition of mosquito breeding in collection of water—
(1) No person or local authority shall—
(a) have, keep, or maintain within any local area any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are hkely to breed, or $1-L27L Tl 106
(b) cause, permit or suffer any water within such area to form a collection in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed, unless such collection has been so treated as effectively to prevent such breeding.
Explanation:—Troughs used for cattle and in frequent use shall not, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be collections of water in which mosquitoes breed or are hkely to breed.
(2) The natural presence of mosquito larva in any standing or flowing water shall be evidence that mosquitoes are breeding in such water.
89. Treatment of mosquito breeding places—(1) The Health Officer may, by notice, require the owner or the occupier of any place containing any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed within such time as may be specified in the notice, not being less than twentyfour hours, to take such measures with respect to the same or to treat the same by such physical, chemical or biological method, being measures or a method, approved by the Director of Public Health, as the Health Officer may consider suitable in the circumstances.
(2) If a notice under sub-section (1) is served on the occupier, he shall, in the absence of a contract, expressed or implied, to the contrary, be entitled to recover from the owner the reasonable expenses incurred by him in taking the measures or adopting the method of treatment, specified in the notice, and may deduct the amount of such expenses from the rent which is then, or which may thereafter, be due from him to the owner.