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APP. IV. ] Regulations under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
Medical
practitioner
to report plague
cases.
Police officer
to report to
executive and
sanitary
authorities
and to take no
further action
without their
orders.
29. Any medical practitioner who attends in any house a case
which he has reason to believe to be a case of bubonic plague shall
forthwith report such illness to the nearest police station.
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30. On receiving a report of illness or death from bubonic plague,
the officer in charge of the police station shall immediately report the
matter to the District Superintendent of Police, the District or City
Magistrate and the Health Officer or Sanitary Officer of the muni-
cipality or cantonment. Should Assistant Health or Sanitary Officers
be appointed for any muhalla or section of the town, the police officer,
may be directed to report to him instead of the Health Officer.
Beyond reporting the fact of illness or death no police officer shall
take any action under the rules in this part, except under a written
order of the executive or sanitary authority, which he shall be bound
to show, if required by the head of the house.
Plague
patients not to
be removed,
except to be
taken to
hospital, until
the expiry of a
six hours'
notice at the
police station.
31, (1) A person suffering from bubonic plague shall not be
removed from the house in which he is at the time lying unless it be
for the purpose of removing him to a hospital until after the expiry
of six hours from the time a notice of such intended removal shall
have been delivered at the nearest police station by, or on behalf of,
the friends of the sick person or of the owners or occupiers of the
house, unless the Health Officer or other sanitary or executive
authority has permitted earlier removal.
Similar rule
with regard to
bodies of persons
who have died
of plague.
(2) The dead body of a person who has died of bubonic plague
shall not be removed from the house in which the death occurred
until after the expiry of six hours from the time a notice of such
intended removal shall have been delivered at the nearest police
station by, or on behalf of, the friends of the deceased or of the
owners or occupiers of the house, unless the Health Officer or other
sanitary or executive authority has permitted earlier removal.
Written notice
may be given.
(3) It shall be optional to the person giving the notice to deliver
a written notice at the police station, and the station clerk shall
record on the notice the time of its receipt and shall sign the same.
Friends of
deceased
permitted to
dispose of
body in
accordance with
religious custom,
subject to
sanitary
instructions.
(4) The friends of the deceased shall be permitted to dispose of
the corpse by cremation or burial in accordance with their religious
practices, but they shall obey the directions of the Health Officer or
other sanitary or executive authority as to the time, route and method
of removing the corpse to the burial or cremation place. In the event
of the failure or refusal of relatives or friends of the deceased to
dispose of the body, the Health Officer shall dispose of it in accord-
ance with the religion of the deceased.
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32. The owner and occupier of a house and the head of any family
resident therein,* and travellers or others frequenting the town or place,
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* Notification No. XVI—404 B. ' dated the 5th June 1897.