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11. No person shall let, or show for the purpose of letting,
a building or part of a building in which he knows, or has
reason to know, that a person has been suffering from the
plague, without having such building or part thereof, and every
article therein likely to retain infection, disinfected to the satis-
faction of the Medical officer appointed by the Collector in this
behalf.
12. The Collector or an officer generally or specially author-
ized by him in writing in this behalf may, when he considers
necessary, enter upon any premises, whether situated in a
municipality or not, at any time during daylight and summarily
execute any work required under, or summarily abate any of
the nuisances described or indicated in sections 186, 220, 221
and 228 of the District Municipalities Act, 1884, or sections
99 and 101 of the Local Boards Act, 1884.
13. The Collector of the district may, in his discretion,
order the disinfection or destruction of any collection of rags
in rag-pickers' houses and rag-stores or of second-hand gunny-
bags imported from any part of India infected by the plague;
and no person shall be entitled to claim compensation for any
loss or damage sustained by him by reason of the disinfection
or destruction of such articles under the powers conferred by
this Regulation.
The Collector of the district may also, by an order in
writing, authorize generally or specially any Magistrate or any
Chairman of a Municipal Council to exercise the power of
disinfection vested in the Collector of the district by this
Regulation.
14. At or near any railway station appointed by notifica-
tion in the Fort St. George Gazette as an inspection station, any
Medical officer appointed in this behalf may detain any train
and may require any person travelling therein to alight and
submit himself to medical examination as the Medical officer
may direct, and may for this purpose, with the assistance, if
necessary, of the police, using such reasonable force as may be
required, detain such passenger either on the railway premises
or in some other suitable place which the Collector shall, if
necessary, provide at the expense of the Municipal or Local
fund, as the case may be; and, if the said person is suffering
from or suspected to be suffering from the bubonic plague, or
to have so lately suffered from the plague as to be in an
infectious state, or likely from recent contact with plague cases
to have been infected or to be in an infectious state, the Medical
officer may deal with him under the preceding Regulation 3,