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CHAPTER VIII
Maternity and Child-Welfare
82. Local authority to carry out maternity and child-welfare measures.-
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
83. Prohibition of mosquito breeding in collections of water-
(1) If the provisions of this section have been extended to any local area, no person or local authority shall, after such extension -
(a) have, keep, or maintain within such area any collection of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes breed or are likely to breed, or
(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 likely to breed.
(2) The natural presence of mosquito larvae in any standing or flowing water shall be evidence that mosquitoes are breeding in such water.
84. Treatment of mosquito breeding places.-
(1) The Health Officer may, by notice in writing, 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 twenty-four 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 Health Services 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.
85. Health Officer's powers in case of default.-
If the person on whom a notice is served under Section 84 fails or refuses to take the measures, or adopt the method of treatment, specified in such notice within the time specified therein, the Health Officer may himself take such measures or adopt such treatment and recover the cost of doing so from the owner or occupier of the property, as the case may be, in the same manner as if it were a property tax.
86. Protection of anti-mosquito works.-
Where, with the object of preventing the breeding of mosquitoes in any land or building, the Government or any local authority, or the owner or occupier at the instance of the Government or any local authority, have constructed any works in such land or building, the owner for the time being as well as the occupier for the time being of such land or building shall prevent its being used in any manner which causes, or is likely to cause, the deterioration of such works, or which impairs, or is likely to impair, their efficiency.
87. Prohibition of interference with such works.-
(1) No person shall, without the Consent of the Health Officer, interfere with, injure, destroy or render useless, any work executed
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