(1) The Government shall have power to make rules providing for the protection, maintenance and periodical examination of sources of water supply in the Union territory.
(2) The Health Officer shall exercise such powers and discharge such duties as may be prescribed, so that adequate control could be made by him with regard to insanitary sources of water supply.
CHAPTER – V PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES Communicable or infectious diseases in general
35. For purposes of this Act ‘communicable disease’ or ‘infectious diseases’ means: -
(a) anthrax,
(b) cerebro spinal fever,
(c) chicken pox,
(d) cholera,
(e) diphtheria,
(f) enteric group of fevers,
(g) erysipelas,
(h) influenzal pneumonia,
(i) infective hepatitis,
(j) leprosy,
(k) measles,
(l) plague,
(m) rabies,
(n) relapsing fever,
(o) smallpox,
(p) tuberculosis,
(q) tetanus,
(r) malaria,
(s) typhus,
(t) virus encephalitis,
(u) whooping cough, and
(v) any other disease which the Government may, from time to time, by notification declare to be a communicable disease either generally throughout the territory or part thereof.
49 Duty of the local authority