Section 9

such house or building or part thereof shall be temporarily closed for such time as is necessary to secure its thorough disinfection and deratting, and the

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disinfection or destruction of all infected articles contained therein;

all or any of the inmates, not being themselves sick, shall be isolated to the satisfaction of the health officer or removed to a Government or local authority quarantine station and detained there for such period as is necessary to ensure that such inmates are themselves free from disease; or

all or any of such inmates, who enter into a written undertaking according to the form in the Second

Schedule to present themselves daily for examination and who deposit, if required to do so, such sum of money as is fixed by the health officer, shall present themselves daily to the health officer or to a medical practitioner appointed by the health officer for examination for such period and at such place and time as the health officer or the medical practitioner appoints. Such health officer or medical practitioner is the examining officer mentioned in the Second Schedule.

It shall be lawful for a health officer to order any person brought into contact with a person suffering or suspected to be suffering from an infectious disease to undergo surveillance until he may be discharged without danger to the public and every person authorised by the health officer to carry out such order may use such force as is necessary to compel obedience to such order. Any person who is to undergo surveillance shall be required to give the undertaking according to the Form in the Second Schedule.

For the enforcement of any order made under this section the health officer may cause any person to be forcibly removed from any building and may cause any building or enclosure to be forcibly broken open and any articles found therein to be disinfected or destroyed. The health officer may, subject to the sanction of the local authority, give compensation out of the funds of the local authority for the articles destroyed

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where in his opinion the owners thereof are unable through poverty to bear the loss.

Infected buildings.