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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.
11. If it shall appear to a plague authority of the description stated in Rule 10 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.
12. In the case of any building ordered to be vacated under Rules 10 and 11 and in the
case of any other building or enclosurse which may appear to him to be in a filthy or insanitary
condition, a plague authority of the description stated in Rule 10 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, The said plague authority is empowered to
enter any building for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is in a filthy or insanitary condition.
If the plague authority considers it necessary, he may, of his own motion, immediately and
without previous notice, carry out such measures for cleansing and disinfecting as he considers
necessary.
13. 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.
14. The District Magistrate is empowered to make regulations, when he deems it
necessary, for prescribing the route which shall be taken by a funeral procession from the place
of death to the graveyard, burning ground or other place for final disposal of the corpse and the
places (if any) at which such procession may halt, on its way, for funeral prayers, ceremonies or
other purposes, for enforcing burial in certain places or at a certain depth and for requiring that
quicklime be placed with the corpse; and may prohibit the burial or burning' of corpses of
persons reasonably supposed to have died of the plague in or upon ground other than that
specially assigned by him for such purposes.
15. Before the destruction of property of special value under Rule 1 2 or 13 the value of
it shall be assessed by a Panch of three persons, including the President, who shall be an officer
appointed by the District Magistrate by name or by virtue of office and by general or special
order. The President shall appoint the two other members. Subject to the sanction of the
District Magistrate or of any officer specially empowered by him in this behalf, not being lower
in grade than a First Class Magistrate, the award of the Panch shall be final and conclusivo.
A plague authority is empowered to decide whether an article which it is proposed to de-
stroy is of sufficient value for a Panch to be called to assess its value. If he decides it is not
of sufficient value, he may destroy it on the spot and may in his discretion pay compensation
to the owner: provided, however, that no person shall be entitled as of right to claim any
compensation whatsoever. It is the desire of Government that plague authorities should show
liberality and promptness in the exercise of their power to award compensation, and that,
for example, a very poor man should be promptly compensated for the loss of clothes which,
though of no special market value, may be of considerable value to him.
16. The Police shall act under the orders given by any duly appointed plague authority
with regard—
(a) to compelling persons to submit to such regulations as may be made or approved by
the Medical, officers appointed for a.ny locality tinder these rules for the purpose of
inspection, detention and segregation of persons suffering or suspected to be suffer-
ing from the plague ; and
(b) to carrying out the provisions of these rules.
17. The District Magistrates are to do their utmost, both personally and through
others, to make it generally understood that these rules are absolutely necessary for the
public safety, and to sec that no needless inconvenience is caused to any one, that examina-
tions, &c., are carried out with as much regard as possible to sex and the customs of the
country, and that everything is done to meet the wishes of the patients so far as is compatible
with the public safety.
18. Within a municipal district the expenses of carrying into effect any of the
measures hereby authorized for cleaning or disinfecting any building, or destroying any
hut or other property, together with the cost of compensation under Rule 15 above, shall,
in the first instance, if no other funds have been made specially available for the purpose,