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person found within the limit of their jurisdiction whom they consider
likely to be infected.
Funeral
processions and
burial and
burning of
corpses.
DISPOSAL OF CORPSES.
The two following rules are prescribed to regulate the disposal of
corpses:-
" The District Magistrate is empowered to make regulations, when
he deems it necessary, for prescribing the route which shall be taken
by a funeral procession from the place of death to the graveyard,
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, for enforcing burial
in certain places or at a certain depth and for requiring that quicklime
be placed with the corpse; and may prohibit the burial or burning of
corpses of persons reasonably supposed to have died of the plague in
or upon ground other than that specially assigned by him for such
purposes."
Persons touching
plague corpses.
"When a person dies of the plague elsewhere than within the
limits of a hospital, no one shall touch the corpse, except those who
undertake the necessary duties of preparing it for the funeral. Such
persons shall disinfect themselves according to the orders of the
Plague Authority or person authorized by the Plague Authority."
General rule.
DISINFECTION OF CLOTHING, ETC.
The Plague Authority may require people to adopt such measures
as he thinks necessary for the disinfection of their persons,
clothes, and other property. He may also in cases of necessity order
any such property to be destroyed. The amendment of the 30th
August specially empowers the Plague Authority to take measures
for the disinfection of the clothing, etc., of persons likely to have
been infected.
Disuse of
infected and
insanitary
houses.
DISINFECTION OF HOUSES AND GENERAL SANITARY
PRECAUTIONS.
Any Plague Authority appointed for the purpose may prohibit
until further orders the use as a dwelling house of any building which
is or has been occupied by a sufferer from plague, or which is in his
opinion in such an insanitary condition as to be unfit for human
habitation. If necessary, the inmates may be forcibly removed from
such a building.
Abatement of
overcrowding.
The Plague Authority may also require the abatement of over-
crowding in any dwelling so overcrowded as to endanger health, and