LawgistThe Cantonments Act
171Disinfection of building before letting the same
(1) Where in a cantonment any building or part of a building is intended to be let, in which any person has, within six weeks immediately preceding, been suffering from an infectious or contagious disease, the person letting the building or part shall before doing so disinfect the same in such manner as the Chief Executive Officer may, by public or special notice, direct, together with all articles therein liable to retain infection.
(2) For the purposes of this section, the keeper of a hotel, lodging house or sarai shall be deemed to let to any person who is admitted as a guest therein that part of the building in which such person is permitted to reside.
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Prevention of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases
- 155 Obligation concerning infectious, contagious o communicable diseases
- 156 Blood Bank
- 157 Special measures in case of outbreak of infectious or epidemic diseases
- 158 Power to require names of a dairyman‟s customers
- 159 Power to require names of a washerman‟s customers
- 160 Power to require names of patients or customers of a medical practitioner or paramedical workers
- 161 Report after inspection of dairy or washerman or medical practitioner‟s place of business
- 162 Action on report submitted by Health Officer
- 163 Examination of milk, washed clothes or needles, syringes, etc
- 164 Contamination of public conveyance
- 165 Disinfection of public conveyance
- 166 Penalty for failure to report
- 167 Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or contagious disease
- 168 Disinfection of building or articles therein
- 169 Destruction of infectious hut or shed
- 170 Temporary shelter for inmates of disinfected or destroyed buildings or shed
- 171 Disinfection of building before letting the same
- 172 Disposal of infected article without disinfection
- 173 Means of disinfection
- 174 Marking or selling of food, etc., or washing clothes by infected person
- 175 Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink
- 176 Control over wells, tanks, etc
- 177 Disposal of infectious corpse
