Section 80: Measures taken by Permanent Secretary

80. Measures taken by Permanent Secretary The Permanent Secretary may, by order, provide for— (a) the speedy and safe interment of the dead; (b) house to house visitation; (c) (i) dispensing and distributing medicines; [Issue 1] P49 – 30 Revised Laws of Mauritius (ii) affording to persons affected by or threatened with any epidemic, endemic, infectious or communicable disease such medical aid and accommodation as may be required; (iii) any such matter as appears to him advisable for preventing or mitigating the disease; (d) preventing any person from leaving any infected area without undergoing— (i) medical examination; (ii) disinfection; (iii) inoculation; (iv) vaccination or revaccination; (v) observation for a specified period in an observation camp or station; (e) the formation of hospitals and observation camps or stations, and placing in them persons who are suffering from an infectious or communicable disease; (f) the disinfection of buildings, furniture, goods or other articles which have been used by patients, or which are likely to spread infection; (g) the removal of patients and any other persons who have been in contact with them; (h) the removal of corpses and the holding of post-mortem examinations; (i) the destruction of rats, the means and precautions to be taken on shore or on board vessels for preventing them from passing from vessel to the shore or vice versa, and the better prevention of the danger of spreading infection by rats; (j) the regulation of hospitals used for the reception of patients and of observation camps and stations; (k) the removal and disinfection of articles which have been exposed to infection; (l) the closing of schools; (m) any other purpose having for its object the prevention, control or suppression of any infectious or communicable disease; and (n) the destruction of buildings subject to section 52 (1) and to compensation being paid.