Disinfection of houses or articles liable to retain infection

Whenever it appears to any medical officer of health or to any registered medical practitioner, that the cleansing and disinfecting of any house or part thereof, or of any articles therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or check infectious disease, it shall be the duty of that medical officer to cleanse and disinfect such house or part thereof and the articles therein likely to retain infection. houses of articles