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Sec. 63 THE MADRAS PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1939 127
 
(b) any School, college, playground or such other place, or (c) any hotel, hostel, boarding house, choultry, rest-house, or club, or (d) any factory or shop. Explanation:- A person shall be deemed to know that he is suffering from an infectious disease within the meaning of this sub-section if he has been informed by the Health Officer or any other officer of the Public Health Department of the Government or of a local authority, not below the rank of Health or Sanitary Inspector, or a medical practitioner registered under the Madras Medical Registration Act, 1914, that he is so suffering. (2) No person who has the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from an infectious
Sec. 71        THE MADRAS PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1939                                     129
disease not specified in Part of this Chapter shall cause or permit that person to expose others to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any place referred to in sub-section (1). 60. Infected person not to engage in certain trades and occupations.- No person shall, while suffering from, or in circumstances in which he is likely to spread, any infectious 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. 61. Prevention of infectious disease transmissible from animals.- If, in any local area, any infectious 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 Suppressing or mitigating the disease or for preventing the Outbreak or threatened outbreak thereof; and the local authority shall consider such recommendations and take such action thereon as to it may seem suitable.
 
PART II Notified infectious Diseases 62. Notified diseases.- In this part, "notified disease' means,
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
(a) cerebro-spinal fever (b) chicken-pox (c) cholera (d) diptheria (e) leprosy (f) measles (g) plague (h) rabies () scarlet fever () small-pox (k) typhus, or
 
() any other disease which the Government may from time to time by notification declare to be a notified disease for the purposes of this Part either generally throughout the State) or in such part or parts thereof as may be specified in the notification.
(2) 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 notified disease and which has not been disinfected.
63. Occupation of houses to prevent the spread of infection.- (1) The Health Officer may, in cases of emergency, with the sanction of the District Collector, enter upon, Occupy and use, or depute any person to enter upon, occupy and use, without having recourse to the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, any building or place which, in the opinion of the Health Officer, is required, and is suitable for any purposes connected with the prevention or control of infection from a notified disease: Provided that, if the building or place is occupied, notice shall be given in writing to the occupant, or be conspicuously affixed on such building or place, not less than thirty-six hours before it is entered upon.
 
(2) The owner or lessee of such building or place shall be entitled to compensation for any
'''69. Infected persons not to use public conveyance'''.- (1) No person who knows that he is suffering from a notified disease shall
damage or expenses incurred and to a reasonable rent for the period-
 
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(a) enter any public conveyance used for the conveyance of passengers at separate fares, or
 
(b) enter any other public conveyance, without previously notifying the owner, driver or conductor thereof that he is so suffering.
 
(2) No person having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notified disease shall permit that person to be carried—
 
(a) in any public conveyance used for the conveyance of passengers at separate fares, or
 
(b) in any other public conveyance,
without previously notifying the owner, driver or conductor thereof that the person is so suffering.
 
(3) The owner, driver, or conductor of a public conveyance used for the conveyance of passengers at separate fares shall not convey therein a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notified disease, at any time when a passenger not suffering from such disease is being conveyed therein:
Provided that a person suffering from a notified disease may be conveyed in the public conveyance aforesaid, in such cases of emergency and subject to such restrictions and safeguards as may be notified by the Government.
 
(4) The owner or driver of any other public conveyance may refuse to convey therein any person suffering from a notified disease until he has been paid a sum sufficient to cover any loss and expense which will be incurred by reason of the provisions of the next succeeding subsection.
 
(5) If a person suffering from a notified disease is conveyed in a public conveyance, the person in charge thereof shall as soon as practicable give notice to the Health Officer of the local area in which the conveyance is usually kept and before permitting any other person to enter the conveyance shall cause it to be disinfected.
 
(6) The local authority when so requested by the person in charge of a public conveyance in which a person suffering from a notified disease has been conveyed shall provide for its disinfection.
 
'''70. Letting or sub-letting a building occupied by an infected person'''.— No Person shall, without a special permit from the Health Officer, let or sublet, or permit or suffer any prospective tenant to enter, a building in which he knows or has reason to know that a person has been suffering from a notified disease, within the three months, immediately preceding.
 
'''71. Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection'''.– (1) No person who knows that he is suffering from a notified disease shall expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in –
 
(a) any street or public place, or
 
(b) any market, theatre or other place of entertainment or assembly, or
 
(c) any school, college, playground or such other place, or  
 
(d) any hotel, hostel, boarding house, choultry, rest-house, or club, or
 
(e) any factory or shop.
 
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Sec. 71 THE MADRAS PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1939 129

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

(2) 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 notified disease and which has not been disinfected.

69. Infected persons not to use public conveyance.- (1) No person who knows that he is suffering from a notified disease shall

(a) enter any public conveyance used for the conveyance of passengers at separate fares, or

(b) enter any other public conveyance, without previously notifying the owner, driver or conductor thereof that he is so suffering.

(2) No person having the care of a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notified disease shall permit that person to be carried—

(a) in any public conveyance used for the conveyance of passengers at separate fares, or

(b) in any other public conveyance, without previously notifying the owner, driver or conductor thereof that the person is so suffering.

(3) The owner, driver, or conductor of a public conveyance used for the conveyance of passengers at separate fares shall not convey therein a person whom he knows to be suffering from a notified disease, at any time when a passenger not suffering from such disease is being conveyed therein: Provided that a person suffering from a notified disease may be conveyed in the public conveyance aforesaid, in such cases of emergency and subject to such restrictions and safeguards as may be notified by the Government.

(4) The owner or driver of any other public conveyance may refuse to convey therein any person suffering from a notified disease until he has been paid a sum sufficient to cover any loss and expense which will be incurred by reason of the provisions of the next succeeding subsection.

(5) If a person suffering from a notified disease is conveyed in a public conveyance, the person in charge thereof shall as soon as practicable give notice to the Health Officer of the local area in which the conveyance is usually kept and before permitting any other person to enter the conveyance shall cause it to be disinfected.

(6) The local authority when so requested by the person in charge of a public conveyance in which a person suffering from a notified disease has been conveyed shall provide for its disinfection.

70. Letting or sub-letting a building occupied by an infected person.— No Person shall, without a special permit from the Health Officer, let or sublet, or permit or suffer any prospective tenant to enter, a building in which he knows or has reason to know that a person has been suffering from a notified disease, within the three months, immediately preceding.

71. Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection.– (1) No person who knows that he is suffering from a notified disease shall expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in –

(a) any street or public place, or

(b) any market, theatre or other place of entertainment or assembly, or

(c) any school, college, playground or such other place, or

(d) any hotel, hostel, boarding house, choultry, rest-house, or club, or

(e) any factory or shop.


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