law: 173. Means of disinfection.
  (1) Every Board shall
  (a) provide proper places with necessary attendants and apparatus for the disinfection of conveyances, clothing, bedding or other articles which have been exposed to infection;
  (b) cause conveyances, clothing or other articles brought for disinfection to be disinfected either free of
  charge or on payment of such charges as the Chief Executive Officer may fix.
  (2) The Chief Executive Officer may notify places at which articles of clothing, bedding, conveyances or other articles which have been exposed to infection shall be washed, and, if it does so, no person shall wash any such thing at any place not so notified without having previously disinfected such thing.
  (3) The Chief Executive Officer may direct the destruction of any clothing, bedding or other article in the cantonment likely to retain infection, and may give such compensation as he thinks fit for any article so destroyed.