Provisions for sanitation and conservancy

Provisions for sanitation and conservancy.--The Town Area Committee, by general or special order in writing, may, and if so advised by the Director of Health Services or such other officer as the Government may nominate in this behalf shall, provide, if funds permit, for all or any of the following matters within the town area :-

1. (a) the protection from pollution and periodical examination of all sources of water used for drinking and bathing purposes ;
2. (b) the prohibition of the removal or use for drinking purposes of any water from any stream, well, tank, spring or other source where such removal or use causes or is likely to cause disease or injury to health and the ,prevention of such removal or use by the filling in of any well, tank or other receptacle or by any other method that may be considered advisable :
3. (c) the prohibition of the deposit or storage of manure, refuse or other offensive matter in the manner prejudicial to the public health, conduct or convenience ;
4. (d) the excavation of earth and the filling up of all excavations and depressions injurious to health or offensive to the neighbourhood ;
5. (e) the removal of noxious vegetation ;
6. (f) protection against fire ;
7. (g) the disposal or destruction of materials likely to convey disease ;
8. (h) the registration of births and deaths ;
   • (i) the condemnation and destruction of any [food] which is unfit for human consumption ;
9. (j) the prohibition for reasons of public health of the use of any place for the sale of fish, milk, butter, ghee, meat, poultry, fruit, vegetable or sweetmeats in default of a licence granted by the Committee or otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of such licence ;
10. (k) the fixing of the conditions, and the circumstances, in which and the area or localities in which licences for the sale of fish, meat, fruit, vegetables, milk, butter, ghee, poultry or sweetmeats may be granted, refused, suspended or withdrawn ;
11. (l) the setting apart of suitable places for bathing, washing and watering animals and for washing clothes ;
12. (m) the provisions, repair or removal of drains, privies and latrines ;
13. (n) the prohibition for reasons of public health of the use of any open place for committing nuisance or camping ground without having a sanitary tent ;
14. (o) the removal of hedges and trees overhanging on public streets and walls, etc. ;
15. (p) the securing or enclosing untented buildings remaining a nuisance ;
16. (q) the provisions of troughs and pipes for rain water ;
17. (r) prohibition against letting of buildings to diseased persons, keeping of injurious substances ; the disposal of dead animals ;
18. (t) the removal or alteration of roofs and external walls made of inflammable material ;
19. (u) undertaking of house scavenging by the Committee ;;
    • (v) any other measure which may be necessary generally for conservancy of the town.