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be defrayed out of Municipal Funds, but shall be recoverable from the owner or occupier of
such building or hut under the ordinary provisions of Bombay Act VI of 1873 in the same
manner, in all respects, as if the work had been carried out under the provisions of
Section 77 of the said Act.
19. The plague authority may require people to adopt such measures as he thinks fit
for the disinfection of their persons, vehicles, clothes and other property when he considers
that otherwise, in consequence of the risk of infection to which their persons, vehicles,
clothes and other property have been exposed, there is a danger of plague spreading. If he
considers it necessary he may destroy or order the destruction of such property.
20. The District Magistrate may, with the previous sanction of the Commissioner,
prohibit, either wholly or subject to such restrictions as he may impose, the holding of fairs,
caste feasts or other assemblages which are likely in his opinion to assist the spread of the
plague.
21. All persons practising medicine, whether qualified or not, shall report, within
twenty-four hours, to the nearest plague authority any plague cases or cases of fever with
glandular swellings which come to their notice.
22. All persons shall, on demand, give their names and addresses and mention their
business and intentions regarding future movements to railway station masters, plague
authorities and any other persons whom District Magistrates may empower to collect such
information.
23. When a person dies of the plague elsewhere than within the limits of a hospital, no
one shall touch the corpse except those who undertake the necessary duties of preparing it for
the funeral. Such persons shall disinfect themselves according to the orders of the plague
authority or person authorized by the plague authority.
24. Every person passing by any chauki or other place provided by the District Magistrate
for the inspection of travellers shall submit to examination if required and to detention in any
hospital or quarantine camp which may have been established for that purpose.
25. Every Police Pátil shall prevent the entrance into his village site of any person
believed by him to be suffering from the plague. If there be any such person anywhere
within the limits of his village area, he shall either send him in a cart or litter to the nearest
isolation hospital, or, if it be too far, shall forthwith build or allot a hut for him outside the
village site and detain him there until the orders of the Mámlatdár are received. The com-
panions of any such person shall also not be allowed to enter the village site, bub the Pátii
shall send them such supplies as they may require and shall give them reasonable assistance
to accommodate themselves in the fields during their detention.
26. District Magistrates are empowered, when they consider it necessary, to impose
quarantine at any place or places against any other place or places.
27. District Magistrates or plague authorities are empowered to break holes in the walls
or roofs of houses or to remove roofs altogether for the purpose of admitting light and air.
28. A District Magistrate is empowered to direct the evacuation of houses in the neigh-
bourhood of an infected house or of a block of houses or a particular locality and to prohibit
re-occupation of such houses or locality without permission. Notice for such period as the
District Magistrate thinks suitable should be given, and temporary accommodation should be
provided.
29. A District Magistrate, with the sanction of the Commissioner, is empowered to
prohibit intercommunication between any place and any other places.
30. A District Magistrate or plague authority especially authorized by him in this behalf
is empowered to close places used for the supply, preparation or storage of articles of food and
drink in infected localities or in the immediate neighbourhood of infected houses and to direct
the removal of all articles of food and drink found in such places.
31. A District Magistrate is empowered to prohibit the removal of plague patients from
nouses or sheds, except in accordance with regulations framed by himself, and to take such steps
as may be necessary to enforce such prohibition.
32. Disobedience to a,ny orders issued or regulations made by a District Magistrate or
plague authority under these rules will subject the offender to a prosecution under Section 188,
Indian Penal Code.
33. The provisions of this Notification are not intended to, and shall not operate to limit
in any way the powers which either the District Magistrate or, within a municipal district, the
Municipality may possess independently of the powers hereby conferred.
34. The foregoing rules are applicable throughout the Bombay Presidency and Sind,
except in the City of Bombay, subject to the following modifications in the case of cantonments
and hill-stations in charge of Superintendents : —
In the case of cantonments, substitute 'Cantonment authority' for 'District Magis-
trate.'
In the case of hill-stations in charge of Superintendents, substitute 'Superintendent'
for 'District Magistrate.'"