section 66
Restrain of Infection
The Gangtok Municipal Corporation Act, 197566. The Corporation may make by-laws for the effective control, restraint and prevention of any dangerous disease and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregiong power, the Corporation may, and when required by the State Government, shall make by-laws regulating the following matters: (a) the restraint, segregation and isolation of persons suffering from any dangerous or likely to suffer from any dangerouse disease owing to exposure to infection or contagion; (b) the removal, disinfection and destruction of personal effects, goods and other property and disinfection of houses exposed to infection or contagion; (c) the removal to hospital and the treatment of persons suffering from any dangerous disease or likely to suffer from any such disease, owing to exposure to infection or contagion; (d) the speedy burial or cremation of the bodies of persons who have died from any dangerous disease; (e) house to house visiting and inspection; (f) the promotion of cleanliness, ventilation and disinfection; (g) the duties and responsibilities in respect of the prevention and notification of any dangerous disease; (h) the duties and responsibilities of parents or guardians in respect to their school going children who are suffering or have recently suffered from any dangerous disease or have been exposed to infection or contagion and the duties and responsibilities of persons in charge of schools in respect of such children; (i) the prevention of the spread from any animal, or the carcasses or product of any animal, to man, of rabies, glanders, anthrax, plague, tuberculocis, trichinosis, or any other disease communicable to man by any animal or the carcass or product of any animal; (j) the prevention of the spread and the eradication of malaria, the destruction of mosquitoes and the removal or abatement of condition permitting or favouring the multiplication or prevalence of mosquitoes; (k) the prevention of the spread of diseases by flies or other insects and the destruction of such insects, and the removal or abatement of conditions permitting or favouring the prevalence or multiplication of such insects; (l) the destruction of rodents and other vermins and the removal or abatement of conditions permitting or favouring the harbourage or multiplication thereof; (m) the prevention of the spread of any dangerous disease by the carrying on of any business, trade or occupation; (n) the regulation of rag-flock manufacture and the trade in rags in bones and in second-hand clothing, beddings or any similar article and the requiring of any such article to be disinfected before its importation, removal, sale or exposure for sale, or use in any manufacturing process; (o) the disposal of any refuse, waste matter or other matter or thing, which has been contaminated with or exposed to infection or contagion; and (p) compulsory vaccination, inoculation or their measures in respect of persons residing within the Corporation and such other preventive measures.
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