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which is in the said Collector's opinion necessary for the service
or the safety of the public, and may charge the expense of
executing the work or doing the act to the local board or
municipality concerned.
23. The Collector is empowered to direct the evacuation of
houses in the neighbourhood of an infected house or of a block
of houses or a particular locality, and to prohibit re-occupation
of such houses or locality without permission. The Collector
shall give notice for such period as he may deem necessary, and
shall provide temporary accommodation for those removed from
the houses evacuated. The Collector may require the evicted
persons to reside in any place which he may appoint, under
such restrictions as he may deem necessary, for a period not
exceeding ten days, after which, provided no further sickness
has occurred, any one who wishes to depart may, after necessary
precautions, be allowed to depart.
24. The Collector of the district or any officer specially
authorized by him in this behalf is empowered to close places
used for the supply, preparation or storage of articles of food
and drink in infected localities or in the immediate neighbour-
hood of infected houses, and to direct the removal of all articles
of food and drink found in such places.
25. (1) The Collector of the district, when and to the extent
he may deem necessary, may make Regulations-
(a) for prescribing the route which shall be taken by a
funeral procession from the place of death to
the grave-yard, burning ground or other place
for final disposal of the corpse, and the places,
if any, at which such procession may halt on its
way for funeral prayers, ceremonies or other
purposes;
* (b) for enforcing burial in certain places or at a
certain depth.
(2) He may also prohibit the burial or burning of corpses
of persons reasonably supposed to have died of the plague in or
upon ground other than ground specially assigned by him for
such purpose.
(3) When a person dies of the plague elsewhere than
within the limits of a hospital, no one shall touch the corpse
* As amended by G.O., No. 429-P., dated 4th May 1898; Notification No. 377, Fort
St. George Gazette, dated 10th May 1898, Part I-A, page 124.
Note.-Any Regulations which the Collectors may find necessary to frame under
this clause should provide that, when the burial of a person who has died of plague
takes place in proximity to habitations or sources of water-supply, the corpse shall be
wrapped in a cloth soaked in a solution of corrosive sublimate and be buried six feet
deep. (G.O., No. 429-P., dated 4th May 1898.)