IREC Rule No.636: Definitions Of Different Terms
- Definitions Of Different Terms:-
For the purpose of the rules in this Section;
(1) ‘Household’ includes any member of the family of a railway servant resident with him: any lodger or other person who at the time occupies any part of the same unit of residence; any servant of the above living in the same residence.
(2) ‘Medical Officer’ means the authorized medical attendant as defined in rule 603(1).
(3) ‘Quarantine’ means any restriction imposed upon the movements of a railway servants or upon his intercourse with other railway servants or other persons, designed to prevent the conveyance of disease by him to such other railway servants or persons; such restriction being imposed when any member of the railway servant’s household is known, or on acceptable information believed, to be suffering or to have suffered within a period prior to cognizance of the fact by the quarantining authority not greater than that of the maximum incubation period of such disease, from a quarantinable disease.
(4) ‘Quarantinable Diseases’ means small pox, cholera, plague, typhus fever, cerebro spinal meningitis, diphtheria or such other diseases, as may have been declared to be infectious by a State Government within the areas under its administration.
(5) ‘Infectious Diseases’ mean any of the following disease, Chicken pox, cholera, diphtheria, leprosy, measles, mumps, plague, scarlet fever, small-pox, typhus fever, typhoid fever, whooping cough, cerebro spinal meningitis or such diseases as may have been declared to be infectious by State Government within the area under its administration.