Obligation to notify

Every medical practitioner who, in the course of his practice, recognises the existence of any "notified communicable disease" in any private or public dwelling other than a public hospital, and every manager of any factory or public building, keeper of a lodging house, every head of family or in his absence the nearest relative of the patient present in the house or any attendant on the patient in the absence of his relative, every person in charge of or any attendant on the patient and every owner or occupier of a house, or every head of teaching institution who knows or has reason to believe that any person in the premises under his management, control or occupation is suffering from, or has died of a notified communicable disease, shall, if the case has not been already reported, give information of the same with the least practicable delay: -