Lawgist283Removal to hospital of patients, suffering from dangerous disease
(1) When any person suffering from any dangerous disease is found to be--
(a) without proper lodging or accommodation; or
(b) living in a room or house which he neither owns or pays rent for nor occupies as the guest or relative of any person who owns, or pays rent for it; or
(c) living in a sarai, dharamshala, hotel, boarding house, hostel, guest house, lodging house, club; or
(d) lodged in premises occupied by members of two or more families,
the Chairperson or any person authorised by him in this behalf, may on the advice of any medical officer of the rank not inferior to that of a general duty medical officer remove the patient to any hospital or place at which persons suffering from such diseases are received for medical treatment and may do anything necessary for such removal.
(2) The Council shall if required by the Central Government erect an infectious disease hospital of such type and dimension as that Government may direct.
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- 282 Obligation to give information of dangerous disease
- 283 Removal to hospital of patients, suffering from dangerous disease
- 284 Disinfection of buildings and articles
- 285 Destruction of infectious huts or sheds
- 286 Means of disinfection
- 287 Special measures in case of outbreak of dangerous or epidemic diseases
- 288 Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or to laundry
- 289 Contamination and disinfection of public conveyance
- 290 Driver of conveyance not bound to carry persons suffering from dangerous disease
- 291 Disinfection of buildings before letting the same
- 292 Disposal of infected articles without disinfection
- 293 Prohibition of making or selling of food, etc., or washing of clothes by infected persons
- 294 Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink
- 295 Control over wells and tanks, etc
- 296 Duty of persons suffering from dangerous disease
- 297 Disposal of infectious corpses where any person has died from any dangerous disease
