Section 487 in The Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980
487. Infected clothes not to be sent to washerman or laundry. -
(1)No person shall send or take to any washerman or to any laundry or to any place set apart for the exercise by washerman of their calling for the purpose of being washed or to any place for the purpose of being cleansed any cloth or other article which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a dangerous disease unless such cloth or article has been disinfected by or to the satisfaction of the Municipal Commissioner.(2)The occupier of any building in which a person is suffering from a dangerous disease shall, if required by the Municipal Commissioner, furnish to him the address of any washerman to whom or any laundry of other place to which clothes and other articles from the building have been, or will be, sent during the continuance of the disease for the purpose of being washed or cleaned.
