The Travancore -Cochin Public Health Act,1955
kerala · 1955
- S. 1Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Travancore-Cochin Public Health Act, 1955
- S. 2Definitions
- S. 3Appointment of Director of Public Health and Health Officers
- S. 4Powers of the Government and of the Director of Publie Health
- S. 5Powers of the Director of Public Health to advise local authorities
- S. 6—
- S. 7—
- S. 8Appointment of temporary Healih Officers in emergen- cies
- S. 9—
- S. 10Appointment of persons to carry out the provisions of this Act
- S. 11—
- S. 12—
- S. 13—
- S. 14—
Chapter Chapter II
Chapter Chapter III
Chapter Chapter III
- S. 25—
- S. 26—
- S. 27Drains in private streetsz— Where a house drain
- S. 28—
- S. 29Drainage of court, yard, alley, passage, etc
- S. 30Construction and closure of cesspool
- S. 31Prohibition of occwpation of new building without drams
- S. 32—
- S. 33Injurious refuse not to be discharged into public drain
- S. 34—
- S. 35—
- S. 36New houses to be provided with sanitary convenences
- S. 37Additional sanitary conventences
Chapter Chapter V
- S. 39Certain things to be nutsances
- S. 40—
- S. 41Information regarding nuwsance
- S. 42—
- S. 4344, 6! Power of Director of Public Health in regard to water-supply
- S. 44Provision regarding house rendered unfit for occupation by reason of nuisance
- S. 45Disposal of articles removed while abating nuisance
- S. 46Powers of entry and inspectton
- S. 47—
- S. 48Nuisance caused by act or omission outside local area
- S. 49Prohibition of the deposit of rubbish eic
Chapter Chapter VII
Chapter Chapter VII
- S. 55—
- S. 56—
- S. 57Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infec- tion
- S. 58—
- S. 59Prevention of infectious disease transmissible from ani- mals
- S. 60—
- S. 61—
- S. 62—
- S. 63—
- S. 64Destruction of hut or shed to prevent spread of imfec- tion
- S. 65Closure of lodging houses
- S. 66Infected cloth not to be sent to laundry
- S. 67Infected persons not to use pubhe conveyance
- S. 68Letting or sub-letting a building occupied by an infected person
- S. 69—
- S. 70Forbidding work wm infected premises
- S. 71PART I— INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN GENERAL Infectious diseases
- S. 72—
- S. 73Power of Magistrate to prohibit an assembly of more than fifty persons
- S. 74Power of Government to confer special powers on officers to control notified diseascs
- S. 75—
- S. 76—
- S. 77Patient to be instructed in methods of prevention of the spread of venereal disease
- S. 78—
- S. 79Definitions
- S. 80Provision for treatment of leprosy by local authority
- S. 81Persons suffering from leprosy not to engage in certain occupations
- S. 82Persons suffering from leprosy not to use public con- veyance
- S. 83—
- S. 84Segregatwn of persons suffermg from leprosy
- S. 85Power to require fresh certificate that person suffering from leprosy is not mfectious
- S. 86Rules for the prevention, treatment, and control of cer- tain diseases
- S. 87Local authority to carry out maternity and child welfare measures
- S. 88—
- S. 89—
- S. 9063 Disposal of bodies of persons dying while suffering from notified diseases
- S. 91Protection of anti-mosquito work
- S. 92Prohibition of Interference with such works
- S. 9394, 64 Protection of anti-mosquito work
- S. 94Financial inability etc
- S. 95Notificateon of residential areas
- S. 96—
- S. 97Appeal against notification
- S. 98—
- S. 99Eatension of Section 95 to 98 to non-urban local authori- ties
- S. 100—
- S. 101Cleansing of court, yard or passage used in common
- S. 102Dwelling house unfit for human habitation to be vaca- ted
- S. 103Back-to-back houses not to be erected without permis- sion
- S. 104—
- S. 105Duties of landlord
- S. 106—
- S. 107—
- S. 108—
- S. 109Conditions of registration and of renewal of regis- tration
- S. 110Appeal to local authority
- S. 111Rules for the upkeep and maintenance of lodging houses
- S. 112—
- S. 113—
- S. 114—
- S. 115—
- S. 116Flesh of dead animal not to be consumed
- S. 117—
- S. 118Power of Health Officer to enter premises uSed for food trade
- S. 119—
- S. 120Investigateon of diseases caused by milk or dairy produce
- S. 121—
- S. 122Nottfication of fairs and festwals by Government
- S. 123Notice to be given of fair or festival
- S. 124Sanitary arrangements etc
- S. 125Health Officer to supervise the arrangements
- S. 126Power to enter and seize uwnwholesome food
- S. 127Occupaten of building etc
- S. 128Control over private sources of water-supply
- S. 129—
- S. 130Extension of provisions of chapter to certain areas
- S. 131Infectious disease in canal hoats
- S. 132Inspection of canal boats
- S. 133—
- S. 134Medical mspection of schools
- S. 135Earmarking of revenue by local authorities for expenditure on public health
Chapter CHAPTER XVII
Chapter CHAPTER XVII
- S. 139Bye-laws by local authoriaes
- S. 140Breach of bye-laws
- S. 141Procedure for making or altering bye-laws
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- S. 143—
- S. 144Propaganda by local authority
- S. 145Appeal agaist decision of Health Officer
- S. 146Method of serving notice
- S. 147Cognizance of offences agaist the Act
- S. 148—
- S. 149Powers of Police Officers to arrest offenders against Act, etc