TAMIL NADU PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1939

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S.1 Short title and extent

S.2 Commencement

S.3 Definitions

S.4 Constitution of the Public Health Board

S.5 Functions of the Public Health Board

S.6 Powers of the Government and of the Director of Public Health and his staff

S.6(a) Power of Government to direct performance by district board of any function devolving on panchayats

S.7 Powers of the Director of Public Health to advise local authorities

S.8 Public Health staff in local areas

S.8(a) Special provision in respect of persons holding posts in the public health establishment in the transferred territory

S.9 Appointment of the Health Officer

S.10 Appointment of temporary Health Officers in emergencies

S.11 Delegation of powers of Health Officer

S.12 Appointment of persons to carryout the provisions of this Act

S.13 Powers of Director of Public Health over public health staff of local authorities

S.14 Executive authority's or Health Officer's control over public health staff

S.15 Local authority to provide adequate facilities to the Health Officer

S.16 Authorisation of Health Officer to perform the functions of executive authority in public health matters

S.17 Local authority to provide potable water

S.18 Power of Government to direct local authority to execute water works

S.19 Power of Government to divert water from water-main belonging to a local authority

S.20 Power of Collector in regard to water-supply

S.21 Power of Director of Public Health to direct local authority to Improve water-supply

S.22 Railway administrations to submit samples of drinking water for analysis

S.23 Rules for the protection and periodical examination of water-supply

S.24 Health Officer's powers in regard to insanitary sources

S.25 Levy of water-tax and earmarking the proceeds for water-works

S.26 New house not to be occupied without adequate water-supply

S.27 Local authority to maintain public drains

S.28 Power of Health Officer to require drains to be constructed

S.29 Drainage in Private Streets

S.30 Drainage for huts

S.31 Drainage of court-yard, alley, passage, etc.

S.32 Construction and closure of cesspools

S.33 Prohibition of occupation of new building without drains

S.34 Sullage or sewage not to be left out into streets

S.35 Injurious refuse not to be discharged into public drains

S.36 Pollution of water-course prohibited

S.37 Obligation of local authority to provide public sanitary conveniences

S.38 New houses to be provided with sanitary conveniences

S.39 Additional sanitary conveniences

S.40 Mode of construction of latrines

S.41 Certain things to be nuisances

S.42 Detection of nuisance

S.43 Information regarding nuisance

S.44 Power of Health Officer to abate nuisance

S.45 Power of local authority to abate nuisance

S.46 Provision regarding house rendered unfit for occupation by reason of nuisance

S.47 Disposal of articles removed while abating nuisance

S.48 Powers of entry and inspection

S.49 Power of Government case of default local authority

S.50 Nuisance caused by act or omission outside local area

S.51 Prohibition the deposit rubbish, street etc.

S.52 Infectious diseases

S.53 Appointment of additional health staff

S.54 Provision and maintenance of isolation hospitals and wards

S.55 Provision of Ambulances, etc.

S.56 Medical practitioners to give information of certain infectious diseases

S.57 Prohibition of use of water suspected source

S.58 Removal of infected person to hospital

S.59 Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection

S.60 Infected persons not to engage in certain trades and occupation

S.61 Prevention of infectious diseases transmissible from animals

S.62 Notified diseases

S.63 Occupation of houses to prevent the spread of infection

S.64 Information regarding notified disease

S.65 Power of entry of local officers to take preventive measures

S.66 Destruction of hut or shed to prevent spread of infections

S.67 Closure of lodging houses

S.68 Infected clothes not to be sent to laundry

S.69 Infected persons not to use conveyance

S.70 Letting or subletting a building occupied by an infected person

S.71 Prohibition of the exposure of other persons to infection

S.72 Forbidding work in infected premises

S.73 Prohibition of use of Public library by infected person

S.74 Disposal of bodies of persons dying while suffering from notified disease

S.75 Powers of Magistrate to prohibit an assembly of more than fifty persons

S.76 Power of Government to confer special powers on Officers to control notified diseases

S.77 Destruction of rats, mice, etc.

S.78 Provision for treatment of venereal disease by local authorities