(1) The local authority shall take steps to prevent the outbreak of a communicable disease and to control it by providing such diagnostic and laboratory facilities, staff, medicine, appliances, equipment, facilities for removal, isolation, accommodation of patients and other facilities may, in the opinion of the Health Officer, be necessary for the purpose.
(2) If the local authority fails to take such steps as are recommended by the Health Officer under sub-section (1) or if, in the opinion of the Director the steps taken by the local authority are insufficient for the purpose, he may take or require or empower any person to take such measures and, by pubic notice, prescribe such temporary regulations to be observed by the public or by any person or class of persons, as he shall deem necessary, to prevent the outbreak of a communicable disease or its spread.
(3) Two or more local authorities may jointly take such steps and provide the necessary facilities as may be recommended by the Health Officer/Officers under subsection (1) for the purpose of preventing the outbreak of a communicable disease and to control it.
Jurisdiction over boats, vessels, vans, tents, etc.
37. The provision of this chapter shall apply to inland ship, vessel, boat or van lying within the jurisdiction of the local authority and a tent or shed or structure used for human transport or habitation.
Notified communicable diseases
38. For purposes of this Act "notified communicable disease" shall mean and include any disease which the Government may, from time to time, by notification declare to be notified disease either generally throughout the territory or in such parts thereof as may be specified in the notification.
Obligation to notify
39. Every medical practitioner who, in the course of his practice, recognises the existence of any "notified communicable disease" in any private or public dwelling other than a public hospital, and every manager of any factory or public building, keeper of a lodging house, every head of family or in his absence the nearest relative of the patient present in the house or any attendant on the patient in the absence of his relative, every person in charge of or any attendant on the patient and every owner or occupier of a house, or every head of teaching institution who knows or has reason to believe that any person in the premises under his management, control or occupation is suffering from, or has died of a notified communicable disease, shall, if the case has not been already reported, give information of the same with the least practicable delay: - 50
(a) in Municipal area to the executive authority, the Health Officer or a Sanitary Inspector, and
(b) in non-Municipal areas, to the Health Officer, a Sanitary Inspector or Officer-in-charge of the nearest Health Centre or the nearest local authority.
Prohibition of the use of water from suspected source