Intimation of infectious diseases

Every medical practioner who, in the course of his practice, becomes cognizant of the existence of any notified infectious disease in any private or public dwelling other than public hospital and every manager of any factory or public building, every keeper of a lodging house, e very head of a family and every owner or occupier of a house, who knows or has reason to believe that any person in any premises under his management, control or occupation is suffering from, or has died of, a notified infectious disease, shall give information of the same with the least practicable delay—

1. (a) in municipal areas, to the executive authority, the Health Officer or a Sanitary Inspector, and
2. (b) in non-municipal areas, to the Health Officer, a Health or Sanitary Inspector or the village headman. Explanation.—In this section “medical practitioners” includes a hakim or vaidya, whether registered or not.