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Substituted for “Jarida” by the A.P. Adaptation of Laws Order (A.P.A.O.), 1957. Short title, extent and commencement. Definitions. 2 [Act No.XII of 1950] (4) “Factory” means any premises including the precincts thereof, wherein any industrial, manufacturing or trade process is carried on with the aid of steam, water, oil, gas, electrical or any other form of power which is mechanically transmitted and is not generated by human or animal agency; (5) “Food” includes every article consumed or used by man, for food, drink, or chewing, and all materials used or admixed in the composition or preparation of such article and shall also include flavouring and colouring matter and condiments; (6) “Health Officer” means the Health Officer employed by the local authority concerned or if there is no such officer, the Health Officer of the district; (7) “Hut” means any building which is constructed principally of wood, mud, leaves, grass thatch, thatees or metallic sheets, and includes any temporary structure of whatever size or any small building of whatever material made which the local authority may declare to be a hut for the purposes of this Act; (8) “Infectious Disease” means (a) acute influenza pneumonia, (b) anthrax, (c) cerebro-spinal fever, (d) chicken-pox, (e) cholera, (f) diphtheria, (g) enteric fever, (h) leprosy, (i) measles, (j) plague, (k) rabies, (l) relapsing fever, (m) scarlet fever, (n) small-pox, (o) tuberculosis, (p) typhus, (q) yaws, (r) any other disease which the Government may, from time to time, by notification in the 4[Official Gazette] declare to be an infectious disease either generally throughout the State or in such part or parts thereof as may be specified in the notifications;