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The Madhya Pradesh Public Health Act, 1949

The Madhya Pradesh Public Health Act, 1949

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This Act provides for the protection of public health in Madhya Pradesh. It sets up a Board to advise the Government, gives the Government and the Director of Health Services powers to act against disease, and provides for public health establishments and the appointment of health officers, including temporary ones during epidemics.

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  1. 1. Short title and extent
  2. 2. Commencement
  3. 3. Definitions
  4. 4. Constitution of the Board
  5. 5. Functions of the Board
  6. 6. Powers of Government and of the Director of Health Services and his staff
  7. 7. Powers of the Director of Health Services to advise local authorities
  8. 8. Public Health establishment
  9. 9. Such regulations may lay down the extent to which the [Director of Health Services] shall have disciplinary control over the members of such public health establishments.
  10. 10. Appointment of temporary Health Officers in emergencies
  11. 11. The salary and allowances shall be payable from the funds of the local authority.
  12. 12. Appointment of persons to carry out the provisions of this Act
  13. 13. Power of Director of Health Services over public health staff of local authorities
  14. 14. Health Officer's control over public health staff
  15. 15. Local authority to provide adequate facilities to the Health Officer
  16. 16. Authorization of Health Officer to perform the functions of executive authority in public health matters
  17. 17. Local authority to provide potable water
  18. 18. Power of Government to direct local authority to execute water works
  19. 19. Power of Government to divert water from water main belonging to a local authority
  20. 20. Power of Collector in regard to water supply
  21. 21. The appellate order of the Government shall be final.
  22. 22. Railway administrations to submit samples of drinking water for analysis
  23. 23. For such analysis, the authority aforesaid shall pay to the Government such fee as may be prescribed.
  24. 24. Health Officer's powers in regard to insanitary sources
  25. 25. Levy of water-tax and earmarking the proceeds for water-works
  26. 26. Local authority to maintain public drains
  27. 27. Power of Health Officer to require drains to be constructed
  28. 28. Drains in private streets
  29. 29. Drainage of huts
  30. 30. Drainage of courtyard, alley, passage, etc
  31. 31. Construction and closure of cesspool
  32. 32. Sullage or sewage not to be let out into street
  33. 33. Injurious refuse not to be discharged in to public drain
  34. 34. Pollution of water-courses prohibited
  35. 35. Obligation of local authority to provide public sanitary conveniences
  36. 36. New houses to be provided with sanitary conveniences
  37. 37. Additional sanitary conveniences
  38. 38. Mode of construction of latrines
  39. 39. Certain things to be nuisances
  40. 40. Detection of nuisance
  41. 41. Information regarding nuisance
  42. 42. Power of Health Officer to abate nuisance
  43. 43. Power of local authority to abate nuisance
  44. 44. Provision regarding house rendered unfit for occupation by reason of nuisance
  45. 45. Disposal of articles removed while abating nuisance
  46. 46. Powers of entry and inspection
  47. 47. Power of Government in case of default by local authority
  48. 48. Nuisance caused by act or omission outside local area
  49. 49. Prohibition of the deposit of rubbish, etc, in street, etc
  50. 50. Infectious diseases
  51. 51. Notified infectious diseases
  52. 52. Appointment of additional health staff
  53. 53. Provision and maintenance of isolation hospitals and wards
  54. 54. Provision of ambulances, etc
  55. 55. Intimation of infectious diseases
  56. 56. Prohibition of the use of water from suspected source
  57. 57. Removal of infected person to hospital
  58. 58. Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection
  59. 59. Infected persons not to engage in certain trades and occupations
  60. 60. Prevention of infectious diseases transmissible from animals
  61. 61. Occupation of houses to prevent the spread of infection
  62. 62. Power of entry of local officers to take preventive measures
  63. 63. Destruction of hut or shed to prevent spread of infection
  64. 64. Closure of lodging-house
  65. 65. Infected clothes not to be sent to laundry
  66. 66. Letting or subletting a building occupied by an infected person
  67. 67. Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection
  68. 68. Forbidding of hiring or taking on approval clothes, etc., by infected persons
  69. 69. Disposal of bodies of persons dying while suffering from infectious disease
  70. 70. Power of Magistrate to prohibit the assembly of fifty or more persons
  71. 71. Power of Government to confer special powers on Officers to control infectious diseases
  72. 72. Destruction of rats, mice, etc
  73. 73. Provision for treatment of venereal disease by local authorities
  74. 74. Patient to be instructed in methods of prevention of the spread of venereal disease
  75. 75. Certain medical practitioners to certify as to freedom from venereal disease
  76. 76. Definitions
  77. 77. Ziehl Neelsens method.
  78. 78. Steps to be taken for prevention of the spread of leprosy
  79. 79. Certain medical practitioners to certify as to freedom from leprosy
  80. 80. Persons suffering from leprosy not to engage in certain occupations
  81. 81. Prohibition of persons suffering from leprosy from attending school, college or taking out books from public libraries
  82. 82. Segregation of persons suffering from leprosy
  83. 83. Power to require fresh certificate that person suffering from leprosy is not infectious
  84. 84. Power to make rules
  85. 85. Local authority to carry out maternity and child-welfare measures
  86. 86. Local authority to carry out welfare measures amongst school children
  87. 87. Prevention of mosquito breeding in collection of water
  88. 88. Treatment of mosquito breeding places
  89. 89. Destruction of adult mosquitoes
  90. 90. It shall be lawful for the Health Officer or his authorised agents to carry out such insecticidal measures as the Board may determine to be necessary in respect of any such place.
  91. 91. Protection of anti-mosquito works
  92. 92. Prohibition of interference with such works
  93. 93. Power of health staff to enter and inspect premises
  94. 94. Notification of residential areas
  95. 95. Approval of Director of Health Services to be obtained for notification
  96. 96. Appeal against notification
  97. 97. Consequences of notification
  98. 98. Extension of sections 94 to 97 to non-urban local authorities
  99. 99. New building not to be erected on certain sites
  100. 100. New house not to be occupied without adequate water supply, drainage, etc
  101. 101. Cleansing of courtyard or passage used in common
  102. 102. Dwellings house unfit for human habitation to be vacated
  103. 103. Back-to-back house not to be erected without Permission
  104. 104. Power to require untenanted buildings to be secured
  105. 105. Power to require ruinous structure to be removed or repaired
  106. 106. Power to require to clean land or buildings and to remove noxious growth
  107. 107. Definitions
  108. 108. Duties of a landlord
  109. 109. Power to make rules
  110. 110. Keepers of lodging-houses to be registered
  111. 111. Restrictions on letting lodging-houses to persons suffering from tuberculosis
  112. 112. Register of lodging-houses
  113. 113. Conditions of registration and renewal of registration
  114. 114. Appeal to local authority
  115. 115. Rules for the upkeep and maintenance of lodging-houses
  116. 116. Notice to be affixed outside the lodging-house
  117. 117. Cancellation of registration by Court
  118. 118. Prohibition of sale of unsound food
  119. 119. Punishment for contravening provisions of section 118 through others
  120. 120. Flesh of dead animal not to be consumed
  121. 121. Provision of public slaughter-houses or meat markets
  122. 122. Importing meat into local area
  123. 123. Power of Health Officer to enter premises used for food trade
  124. 124. Power of Health Officer to deal with carriers of disease handling food
  125. 125. Investigation of diseases caused by milk or dairy produce
  126. 126. Notification of fairs and festivals by Government
  127. 127. Power of Government to make rules
  128. 128. Imposition of pilgrim tax on travellers
  129. 129. Notice to be given of fair or festival
  130. 130. Sanitary arrangements
  131. 131. Health Officer to supervise the arrangement
  132. 132. Power to enter and seize unwholesome food
  133. 133. Occupation of building, etc., required in connection with fair or festival
  134. 134. Control over private sources of water supply
  135. 135. Licensing of houses to accommodate visitors to fair or festival
  136. 136. Extension of provisions of this Chapter to certain areas
  137. 137. Burial or burning-grounds and places for disposal of carcasses
  138. 138. Routes
  139. 139. Disposal of mad and stray dogs and other animals
  140. 140. Earmarking of revenue by local authorities for expenditure on public health
  141. 141. Power of Government to make rules
  142. 142. Bye-laws by local authorities
  143. 143. Penalties
  144. 144. Penalty for preventing entry of Executive Authority or Health Officer
  145. 145. Appeal against decision of Health Officer
  146. 146. Method of serving notices
  147. 147. Recovery of cost as arrears of land revenue
  148. 148. Cognizance of offences
  149. 149. Power to compound offences
  150. 150. Powers of Executive Officer and Public Health staff to arrest offenders against Act, etc
  151. 151. Provided that no person so arrested shall be detained longer than is necessary for bringing him before a Magistrate unless an order of a Magistrate for his detention is obtained.
  152. 152. Punishment for malicious abuse of powers
  153. 153. Delegation
  154. 154. Provided that nothing containded in this section shall apply to any power of Government to make rules under this Act or to their powers under sections 6,11,12,19,23, 71, 84, 126, 127, 128, and 141.
  155. 155. Provision for avoidance of difficulties

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