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Provision of ambulances etc.—A local authority may, and if so required by the Director of Public Health shall— (a) provide and maintain suitable conveyances, with sufficient attendants and other requisites, for the free carriage of persons suffering from any infec- tious disease; and (b) provide proper places and apparatus and establish- ment, for the disinfection of conveyances, clothing, bedding or other articles which have been exposed to infection; and when any conveyances, clothing, bedding or articles are brought to any such place for disinfection, may, cause them, at its discretion, to be disinfected, either free of charge, or on payment of such fee as it may fix. 54, Medical practitioner to give information of certain in- fectious diseases.—Every medical practitioner who in the course of his practice becomes cognizant of the existence of any case of any infectious disease referred to in Section 50 in any private or public dwelling other than a public hospital shall, if the case has not been already reported, give information im writing of the same with the least practicable delay— (a) in urban local areas, to the executive authority, the Health Officer, or a Sanitary Inspector; and (b) in other areas, to the Health Officer or a Health or Sanitary Inspector.