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District Board Assistant Health Officers', Health Inspectors' and Vaccinators' Recruitment Rules

Published vide Notification No. 7405-L.S.-G., dated the 19th June 1930

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No. 7405-L.S.-G., dated the 19th June 1930 - In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (g) of Section 138 of the Bihar and Orissa Local Self-Government Act, 1885, the Government of Bihar and Orissa are pleased to make the following Rules:-

  1. These Rules may be called the District Board Assistant Health Officers', Health Inspectors' and Vaccinators' Recruitment Rules.
  2. In these Rules-

(a) Assistant Health Officer means the officer or officers employed by a district board under the health officer to supervise and control the public health staff employed in a district or part of a district and to carry out all measures adopted by the board for the improvement of the sanitation of the area he controls under the health officer, and in the prevention of disease.

(b) Health Inspector means the officer or officers employed by a district board under a health officer or assistant health officer for public health or sanitation work in a district or part of a district.

(c) 'Vaccinator' means any officer employed by a district board to perform the operation of vaccination against small-pox.

  1. No person shall be qualified for appointment as an Assistant Health Officer under a district board unless he-

(a) is registered under the Bihar and Orissa Medical Act, 1916; and

(b) possesses either the Diploma in Public Health or the Diploma of Licentiate in Public Health from an institution recognised by this State Government for imparting training in the D.P.H. or in the L.P.H. course of the D.P.H. and Hygiene course :

Provided that a district board may appoint as an Assistant Health Officer on probation any person who is qualified under clause (a) of this Rule subject to the condition that (1) he will be required to obtain the qualification prescribed in clause (b) of the Rule within a period of five years from the date of his appointment and (2) on his failure to obtain the qualification within the aforesaid period, he will be liable to be discharged.

  1. No person shall be employed as a Health Inspector in a district board unless he-

(a) has passed the matriculation examination of an Indian University; and

(b) has attended a course of instruction at the Health Inspectors' training class at Gulzarbagh and is in possession of certificate in the prescribed form signed by the Director of Public Health, Bihar and Orissa, to the effect that he has passed the prescribed examination at the end of the said course.

  1. No person shall be employed as a vaccinator under a district board who is not qualified as a public vaccinator according to Rules framed by the local Government under clause (a) of Section 33 of the Bengal Vaccination Act, 1880.