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Added by Act No.17 of 1994. Act 63 of 1948. 6 [Act No. II of 1956] (22) ‗goods‘ includes animals; 10[(22-a) ‗high rise building‘ means and includes all buildings with eighteen (18) meters or more in height measured from the average level of the central line of street on which the site abuts. Staircase rooms, Lift rooms, Chimneys, elevated tanks above the top most floor and architectural features are excluded from the height of such buildings;] (23) ‗house-drain‘ means any drain of, and used for the drainage of, one or more buildings or premises and made merely for the purpose of communication with a municipal drain; (24) ‗house-gully‘ means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilised for the purpose of serving as a drain or for affording access to municipal servants or to persons employed in the cleansing of a privy, urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or polluted matter, or in the removal of such matter therefrom; (25) ‗hut‘ means any building which is constructed principally of wood, mud, leaves, grass, cloth or thatches and includes any temporary structure, of whatever size or material, which the Corporation may for the purposes of this Act declare to be a hut; (26) ‗infectious disease‘ means cerebro-spinal fever, chicken-pox, cholera, diphtheria, enteric fever, epidemic influenza, leprosy, measles, plague, rabies, scarlet fever, small-pox, tuberculosis, typhus, yaws, or any other disease which the Government may by notification declare to be prevalent either generally throughout State or City or in such part or parts thereof as may be specified in the notification;