Prevention of infectious diseases transmissible from animals

If, in any local area, any infectious disease transmissible to man breaks out or is, in the opinion of the Health Officer, likely to break out, amongst cattle or other animals, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer to recommend to the local authority the adoption of such measures as he may deem necessary for suppressing or mitigating the disease or for preventing the outbreak or threatened outbreak thereof and the local authority shall consider such recommendations and take such action thereon as to it may seem suitable. (iii) enter into an agreement with any person having the management of any such hospital, for the reception and treatment therein, of persons suffering from infectious diseases; (c) for the purpose aforesaid, two or more local authorities may in combination provide a common hospital or place of reception. (2) A local authority shall not be deemed to have discharged its obligation under sub-section (1) unless the hospitals, wards or places of reception in question are maintained in accordance with such general or special orders as may from time to time be issued by the Director of Public Health.