APP. IV. ] Regulations under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
£55
Registration o?
deaths by Plague
authorities.
Notification No.
1968—1421-P.,
dated the loth
April 1897.
Corpses not to
be disposed of
until death has
been registered.
*Resolution No.
2I6I-A.—1617-
P., dated the 23rd
April 1897..
6-A. On receipt of information of any death, the Plague authority
shall immediately register the death and give the informant a certificate
that the death has been registered.
6-B. It shall not be lawful to carry any corpse to the place of cre-
mation or burial,* or to a tower of silence, unless the bearers are in
possession of a certificate given under Rule 6-A that the death has
been registered. In the event of a corpse being carried in contraven-
tion of this rule, Plague authorities and all policemen on duty are
empowered to demand the name, sex, age, caste and residence of
the deceased and to detain one of the funeral party until the inform-
ation is truly given.
Notification
No. 5880-3854,
dated 25th
October 1897.
" In any town or village or other area to which this rule shall be
applied by the District Magistrate, an occupant of a house or building
or the principal surviving member of a family shall give immediate
information to the nearest Plague authority of (a) any sickness, (b)
any death, (c) the arrival, at the house or building, of any person from
any place declared by the District Magistrate to be infected."
Investigation by
Plague authority
on receipt of in«
formation of
plague cases.
7. Immediately on receiving information under Rules 3, 4, 5, or 6,
or whenever he thinks house visitation necessary, the Plague author-
ity shall go to the place indicated, and if the place be a house or
dwelling-place and if the occupants thereof do not (on his demand)
allow him to enter and give him reasonable facilities for ascertain-
ing whether any of the immates are suffering from the plague, such
authority is empowered to enter into such house or any part thereof
by force, and to detain, for the purpose of medical examination, any
person found therein to be suffering or suspected to be suffering from
the plague, or in his opinion likely to have been infected, e.g., owing
to his having lived in the same house with a plague patient.
t Notification
No. 4692—3121
P., dated 3oth
August 1897.
17-A. A Plague authority is empowered to detain in a place of
observation appointed by him, for a period not exceeding ten days,
any person found within the limits of the jurisdiction of such Plague ,
authority, who is in the opinion of the latter likely to have been in-
fected. A Plague authority is also empowered to take any measures
for the disinfection of the clothing, or the articles likely in his opinion
to be infected, of any person thus detained, or oí any person, whether
detained or not, who is in his opinion likely to have been infected,
and such persons shall be bound to submit to such measures and to
remain in the appointed places of detention till permitted by the
Plague authority concerned to leave them.
Enquiry into
cause of death.
8. A Plague authority is empowered to have the cause of death
inquired into in all cases, and, unless satisfied, to treat it as a plague
case.