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4. At any place specially appointed by the District Magistrate or by any officer em-
powered by him on this behalf, and situate on a road leading into a town or village, any
plague authority on duty or other officer or person specially authorized in this behalf by the
District Magistrate may detain, for the purpose of medical examination, any person whom
he reasonably believes or suspects to be suffering from the plague, and shall (if he be not
himself a Medical officer authorized under these rules) give information of the detention to
the nearest Medical officer so authorized.
5. 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 any sickness
or death, due or likely to be due to plague, in such house or building or amongst the members
of such family. If the case of sickness or death occur within municipal limits, such person
shall also give immediate information thereof in every instance to the Municipal Secretary.
Such plague authority (if he be not himself a Medical officer) shall without delay send
word to the nearest Medical officer belonging to any of the classes (6), (7) and (8) mentioned
in Rule 2, and such Medical officer, whether appointed a plague authority for the locality
or not, shall be bound to come to the place indicated.
6. Immediately on receiving information under Rules 3, 4 or 5, the plague authority
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 ascertaining whether any of the inmates 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 suspect-
ed to be suffering from the plague.
7. Every Medical officer appointed under these rules as a plague authority is em-
powered to examine all persons whom he discovers or about whom he receives information
under the provisions of Rules Nos. 3, 4, 5 or 6, and to detain and segregate persons suffering
or suspected by him to be suffering from the plague, in such places as may be appointed by
the District Magistrate or officer specially deputed by him in this behalf for the accommoda-
tion of such persons respectively. For the purpose of segregating people the District
Magistrate or officer specially authorized by him in this behalf may take possession of and
occupy any vacant ground or building, such compensation being afterwards made to the
owner or occupier thereof as may be fixed by a Panch as provided in Rule 13.
8. If a plague authority, who is specially appointed in this behalf by the District
Magistrate, has reason to believe that any building intended or used as a dwelling is or has
been occupied by a sufferer from the plague, or if it appears to him that any such building
is in such an insanitary condition as to be unfit for human habitation, he may prohibit by
a written order the further use of such building as a dwelling house.
When any such prohibition has been made, no owner or occupier of such building shall
use or suffer the same to be used for human habitation until the said officer gives him
written permission in this behalf.
For the purpose of enforcing this regulation, the said officer may, if necessary, forcibly
remove or cause to be removed any person from such building.
9. If it shall appear to a plague authority of the description stated in Rule 8, that any
building used as a dwelling is so overcrowded as to endanger the health of the inmates
thereof, he may, by written order, require the owner or occupier of the building, within a
period to be fixed by the said authority, to abate the overcrowding thereof by reducing the
numbers of inmates thereof.
For the purpose of enforcing this regulation, the said authority may, if necessary, at the
expiration of the time prescribed in the written order, forcibly remove or cause to be
removed such and so many of the inmates of the building as shall seem to him to be proper.
10. In the case of any building ordered to be vacated under Rules 8 and 9, and in the
case of any other building or enclosure which may appear to him to be in a filthy or
insanitary condition, a plague authority of the description stated in Rule 8 may require the
owner or occupier to carry out, or in his default may of his own motion carry out, such
measures as may seem necessary to him for the purpose of cleansing or disinfecting such
building or premises, and for the purpose of such cleansing or disinfecting may, if necessary,
forcibly break open and enter any such building or part of such building or premises, and
may remove and disinfect or destroy any goods, clothes or other articles found therein.
11. Such plague authority as aforesaid is empowered, with the consent of any First
Class Magistrate having jurisdiction in the locality, to remove or burn any huts or erections in
which a case of plague has occurred or which are likely from their insanitary surroundings or
conditions to give rise to the disease.
12. The District Magistrate is empowered to make regulations, when he deems it neces-
sary, for enforcing burial in certain places or at a certain depth and for requiring that quick-
lime be placed with the corpse ; and may prohibit the burial or burning of corpses o£ persona
reasonably supposed to have died of the plague in or upon ground other than that specially
assigned by him for such purposes.