(1) If it appears to the Health Officer that the destruction of any hut or shed is necessary to prevent the spread of any communicable disease he may, after giving to the owner and the occupier of such hut or shed such previous notice of his intention as may be in the circumstances of the case appear to him reasonable, take measures for having such hut or shed and all the materials thereof destroyed.
(2) Such compensation as the local authority may consider reasonable, shall be paid to any person who in its opinion sustains loss by the destruction of any hut or shed under the powers conferred by sub-section (1); but save as provided in this sub-section, no claim for compensation shall lie for any loss or damage caused by any exercise of the powers aforesaid.
Infected clothes not to be sent to laundry
47. No person shall –
(a) send or take to any laundry or public washhouse or any pubic watercourse, tank or well, for the purpose of being washed, or to any place for the purpose of being cleansed, any clothing, bedding or other article which he knows to have been exposed to infection from any communicable disease, unless such article has been disinfected by, or to the satisfaction of the Health Officer, or a registered medical practitioner, or unless under instructions from such a person, it is sent with proper precautions to a laundry for the purpose of disinfection with notice that it has been exposed to infection; or
(b) place or cause or permit to be placed in any dust-bin or other receptacle for the deposit of refuse any matter which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a communicable disease and which has not been disinfected.
Use of public conveyance