State Act

The Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965.

237. Dangerous diseases.— For the purpose of this Chapter, the expression “dangerous disease” means any of the following diseases, namely :— (i) anthrax; (ii) Cerebrospinal fever; (iii) Chicken-pox; (vi) Cholera; (v) Diphtheria; (vi) Enteric group of fevers; (vii) Erysipelas; (viii) Influenzal Pneumonia-acute influenza; (ix) Leprosy; (x) Measles; (xi) Plague; (xii) Poliomyelitis; (xiii) Rabies; (xiv) Relapsing fever; (xv) Scarlet fever; (xvi) Small-pox; (xvii) Tuberculosis of Lungs and intestines; (xviii) Typhus; (xix) Yellow fever; (xx) Continuous pyrexia of unknown origin of more than four days, duration; (xxi) Any other disease which the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a dangerous disease.