(1) When, in the opinion of the Health Officer or any other officer duly authorised by him in this behalf any person is suffering from a communicable disease, the Officer may direct –
(a) that the person be kept in isolation in his home, or
(b) if the person is without proper lodging or accommodation or is lodged in such manner that he cannot in the opinion of the Officer, be properly isolated in his home, the removal of such person to a hospital or place at which patients suffering from such communicable diseases are received for treatment.
(2) No person who has been ordered to be in home isolation shall leave the home, and no person, who has been removed to a hospital or place shall leave the hospital or place, until he has been permitted to do so by the Health Officer or any other officer duly authorised by him in this behalf.
Exposure of persons and articles
42. A person who –
(a) knowing that he is suffering from a notifiable disease, exposed other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any street, public place, place of entertainment or assembly, club, hotel or shop,
(b) having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notifiable disease, causes or permits that person to expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any such place as aforesaid, or 51
(c) gives, lends, sells, transmits or exposes, without previous disinfection, any clothing, bedding or rags which he knows to have been exposed to infection from any such disease or any other article which he knows to have been so exposed and which is liable to carry such infection, shall be guilty of an offence, and
(d) no person having the charge or control of the body of any person who has died from any dangerous disease shall permit or suffer any other person to come necessarily into contact or proximity with the dead body:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any person transmitting with proper precautions any article for the purpose of having it disinfected.
Infected persons not to engage in certain trades and occupations
43. No person shall, while suffering from, or in circumstances in which he is likely to spread, any communicable disease ---
(a) make, carry or offer for sale, or take any part in the business of making, carrying or offering for sale, any article of food for human consumption; or
(b) engage in any other occupation without a special permit from the Health Officer of the local authority concerned or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions specified therein.
Prevention of communicable disease transmissible from animals
44. If in any local area any communicable 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 controlling and preventing the disease.
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