Provision of public bathing-houses, wash-houses, etc.- The

Commissioner may construct or provide and maintain public bathing-houses, public wash-houses or places for the washing of vessels, clothes and may charge and levy such rents and fees for the use of any such bathing-house, wash-house or place as the standing committee may determine. Such rents and fees shall be recoverable in the same manner as the property tax.

1. (2) The Commissioner may farm out the collection of such rents and fees for any period not exceeding three years at a time on such terms and conditions as he may think fit.
2. (3) If a sufficient number of public wash-houses or places be not maintained under sub-section (1) the Commissioner may without making any charge therefor appoint suitable places for the exercise by washermen of their calling.
3. (4) In public wash-houses, the clothes of persons suffering from infectious diseases and of persons residing in the premises occupied by persons suffering from such diseases shall be washed separately in a separate block wherever set apart for the purpose and shall be washed by such methods as the Commissioner may lay down in that behalf.