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No. IV
number of those persons who were successfully vaccinated in
mentioned years
VACCINATED.
Total
Number.
Number
success-
fully
vacci-
nated.
Total
Number.
Number
success-
fully
vacci-
nated.
Total
Number.
Number
success-
fully
vacci-
nated.
Total
Number.
Number
success-
fully
vacci-
nated
ON 31ST MARCH.
1921-1922.
5,945
2,121
2,791
1,251
4,819
1,965
3,149
1,915
20,821
24,428
1,454
70,659
5,825
2,090
2,742
1,250
4,812
1,824
3,072
1,906
20,747
24,419
1,391
70,078
1922-1923.
5,887
2,047
3,135
1,245
5,387
2,071
3,010
2,019
21,062
25,435
1,262
72,560
5,734
1,881
3,020
1,242
5,382
1,906
2,965
2,013
21,006
25,415
1,150
71,714
1923-1924.
6,330
2,167
2,764
1,507
2,496
6,064
1,890
2,145
20,924
26,004
1,496
73,787
6,180
2,130
2,707
1,506
2,361
6,063
1,688
2,142
20,866
25,995
1,849
73,087
1924-1925.
6,021
2,438
3,988
1,356
6,637
1,968
2,970
2,172
20,867
27,158
1,221
76,798
5,899
2,384
3,788
1,356
6,637
1,779
2,930
2,166
20,810
27,155
1,178
76,078
P 8—11
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STATEMENT No. IV—concld.
Establishments.
Idar ... ...
Cambay ... ...
Bhor (Pant Sachiv) ... ...
Phaltan ... ...
Savantvádi ... ...
Aundh ... ...
Akalkot ... ...
Janjira ... ...
Southern Maratha Country States...
Kolhapur ... ...
Bansda ... ...
Total ...
PERSONS PRIMARILY VACCINATED—contd.
Total
Number.
Number
success-
fully
vacci-
nated.
Total
Number.
Number
success-
fully
vacci-
nated.
Total
Number.
Number
success-
fully
vacci-
nated.
YEARS ENDED ON 31ST MARCH—contd.
1925-1926.
5,788
2,407
3,921
1,315
6,212
1,615
2,718
2,194
22,241
26,372
1,426
76,209
5,768
2,320
3,673
1,315
6,206
1,406
2,692
2,161
22,181
26,361
1,245
75,328
1926-1927.
6,030
2,295
3,511
1,401
6,321
2,080
2,622
2,164
21,745
27,047
1,190
76,415
5,998
2,262
3,335
1,401
6,317
1,902
2,594
2,149
21,637
27,044
939
75,578
1927-1928.
7,073
2,314
4,184
1,448
6,368
1,895
2,757
2,028
22,706
31,424
216
82,413
7,064
2,292
3,985
1,448
6,360
1,687
2,726
2,014
22,593
31,420
166
81,755
APPENDIX
IV
Diagram illustrating
the death rates
from
Small-pox
during the year 1927-28 and the proportion
of
population
protected
by Vaccination
during the seven year
period
from 1921-22 to 1927-28
.
(NOTE:- Scale figures are at Log
interval.)
THE
MADRAS PLAGUE REGULATIONS
AND RULES
FOR DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
(Revised up to 1st June 1902.)
MADRAS:
PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRESS.
1902.
[PRICE, 4
annas.]
[6
pence.]
T H E
MADRAS PLAGUE REGULATIONS
AND RULES
FOR DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
(Revised up to 1st June 1902.)
MADRAS:
PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRESS.
1902.
CONTENTS,
CHAPTER I.
(1) Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 .. .. .. .. ..
(2) Government of India, Home Department Notificaron, Ño, 302,
dated 4th February 1897, conferring powers o a Local Govern-
ments
..
..
..
..
..
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..
(3) Regulations for mufassal towns and villages .. .. .. .. ..
?AGB
5
7
8
CHAPTER II.
Instructions with regard to the carrying out of plague measures
and with regard to other matters connected with plague—
APPENDICES.
APPENDIX A. — Plague passport
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, ,
B. — G eueral pass, for j ourneys by road or boat , .
, .
,,
C. — General pass, for journeys by rail
„
D.— General pass, for persons leaving an infected or
notified place, &c.
„
E. — Special pass for persons leaving an inhabited infected
72
73
74
74
75
Agency for working plague regulations
L' emoval of plague patients- to hospital
..
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Evacuation
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Inoculation
House searches . .
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Inspection and burial of corpses
Plague hospitals and camps
Surveillance or passport rules . ,
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Railway Inspection
. .
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Pairs, i'estivala and pilgrimages
Destruction of rats
Plague reports and returns
Plague correspondence
Plague appointments and plague allowances
Plague expenditure and accounts
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Duties of the railway staff
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33
35
36
38
39
40
42
45
45
47
48
52
56
57
59
62
63
64
66
70
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Plague inoculation certificate.. .. ..
G. — Register of permanent passes issued to persons attend-
ing markets . . .. . . .. .. ..
H. — Relaxation of passport rules .. .. .. ..
I. — Intimation form. ... .. .. .. .. ..
J. — Time allowed at inspection stations for plague
examination .. .. .. .. ..
K. — Detention certificate .. .. .. .. ..
L. — Return of persons detained at inspection stations ...
M. — Statement to accompany proposals for placing
restrictions on fairs and festivals . . .. .. ..
N. — Notifications for placing restriction on fairs and
festivals
. .
0. — Plague Report . .
P. — Destruction of plague records . .
Q. — Distribution oí spare copies of printed orders of Gov-
R.— Part I— Allowances of officers deputed to plague
duty
. .
. .
R. — Part II — Salariée of officers temporarily entertained
for plague duty . .
. .
. .
. .
S. — Pay and allowances of sanitary inspectors employed
on plague duty
. .
. .
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T. — List of plague charges
. .
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'AGE
76
77
77
79
80
80
80
81
82
83
84
8,5
86
88
90
98
THE MADRAS PLAGUE REGULATIONS AND RULES
FOR DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER
TOWNS AND VILLAGES,
CHAPTER I.
(1)—EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT (III OF 1897).
AN Act to provide for the better prevention of the spread of
Dangerous Epidemic Disease.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the better prevention
of the spread of dangerous epidemic disease ; It is hereby
enacted as follows :—
Short title, extent and
commencement.
1. (1) This Act may be called the
Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897;
(2) It extends to the whole of British India (inclusive
of Upper Burma, British. Baluchistan, the Santal Parganas
and the Pargana of Spiti) ; and
(3) It shall come into force at once.
Power to take special
measures and prescribe
regulations as to dangerous
epidemic disease.
2. (1) When at any time the Governor-General in Council
is satisfied that India or any part
thereof is visited by, or threatened with,
an outbreak of any dangerous epidemic
disease, the Governor-Gen eral in Council,
if he thinks that the ordinary provisions of the law for the
time being in force are insufficient for the purpose, may take
or require or empower any person to take such measures and,
by public notice, prescribe such temporary Regulations to be
observed by the public or by any person or class of persons
as he shall deem necessary to prevent the outbreak of such
disease or the spread thereof, and may determine in what
manner and by whom any expenses incurred (including com-
pensation if any) shall be defrayed.
(8) In particular and without prejudice to the gene-
rality of the foregoing provisions, the Govern or-General in
Council may take measures and prescribe Regulations for—
(a) the inspection of any ship or vessel leaving, or
arriving at, any port in British India and such
6
[Epidemic Diseases Act
detention thereof, or of any person intending
to sail therein, or arriving thereby, as may be
necessary ; and
(b) the inspection of persons travelling by railway
or otherwise and the segregation, in hospital,
temporary accommodation or otherwise, of
persons suspected by the inspecting officer of
being infected with any such disease.
(3) The Governor-General in Council may, by general
or special order, direct that all or any of the powers conferred
by this Act may also be exercised by any Local Government
with respect to the territories administered by it.
Penalty.
3. Any person disobeying any regulation or order made
under this Act shall be deemed to nave
committed an offence punishable under
section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.
Protection to persons
acting -ander Act,
4. No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against any
person for anything done or in good
faith intended to be done under this
Act.
7
(2)—GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, HOME DEPARTMENT NOTIFICA-
TION CONFERRING POWERS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
(No. 302, DATED 4TH FEBRUARY 1897).
WHEREAS certain parts of India are visited by, and others
threatened with, an outbreak of dangerous epidemic disease
known as bubonic plague, the Governor-General in Council,
in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2, sub-section
(3), of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, is pleased to direct
that the powers conferred by the said Act may be exercised
by Local Governments with regard to their respective terri-
tories as follows :—
(a) All the said powers by the Governors of Fort St.
George and Bombay in Council, the Lieutenant-Governor of
Bengal and Chief Commissioner of Burma.
*
*
*-
*
8
(3)—MUFASSAL PLAGUE REGULATIONS (FOR DISTRICT
MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER TOWNS AND VILLAGES).
(Notification No. 201 published on pages 75—96, part I-A of
the Fort St. George Gazette, dated 26th February 1901.)
WHEREAS certain parts of the presidency of Madras are
visited by, and other parts are threatened with, an outbreak
of a dangerous epidemic disease known as plague, and whereas
the ordinary provisions of the law for the time being in force
in the presidency are insufficient for the purpose of preventing
the outbreak or spread of the disease :
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2, sub-
section (1) of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (III of
1897), and delegated to him under sub-section (3) of the same
section by the notification of the Government of India in
the Home Department, No. 302, of the 4th February 1897,
the Governor of Fort St. George in Council is pleased to
prescribe under the said Epidemic Diseases Act, and in super-
session of all regulations previously issued on the subject, the
following revised regulations to be observed in all towns
and villages in the presidency except the city of Madras : —
Part I.—General Precautionary Measures to "be adopted
in all Mufassal Towns and Villages.
Surveillance
or passport
rales.
Every
arrival from
an infected
or notified
area bound
to obtain
a passport
and placo
himself
under
surveillance
for ten days.
1. (1) Every person arriving, or suspected of having
arrived, from any place declared by the Governor of Fort
St. George in Council or by the Collector of a district to be
infected with plague, or from any place notified by the Gov-
ernor of Fort St. George in Council for the purposes of this
regulation shall, unless he is exempted under Nos. 32 and 51
of these regulations or unless he already holds a passport
or a permanent pass under No. 31 of these regulations, or
unless he has been detained for the full period of incubation
at a road or railway inspection station or in a plague camp,
before leaving the railway station at which he has alighted, or
before disembarking from the steamer, ship or boat in which
he has travelled, or in the case of arrival by road either
immediately on reaching a road frontier inspection station
or within twelve hours from the time of arrival at any other
place, obtain from the officer mentioned in clause (3) of this
regulation a passport in the form appended [Appendix A] to
these regulations binding him to present himself for inspection
daily for the next ten days before the local authority of the
town or village where he may be ; and he shall be bound so
to present himself,
9
Part I—Begulation 1.3
Provided that passengers from plague-infected or notified
areas holding railway tickets to Méttupálaiyam or to stations
on the Nilgiri Railway shall obtain passports at the Coimba-
tore railway station, and the Madras Railway Company shall
not carry any such passenger beyond Coimbatore station
unless he produces a passport signed by the medical officer of
that station.
Provided also that, where it appears desirable, the muni-
cipal chairman or any revenue officer not below the grade
of deputy tahsildar may, by endorsement on the passport,
exempt any person from personal attendance and permit him
to be inspected at his residence.
Provided also that in the case of persons from a plague-
infected or notified place who regularly attend the important
weekly markets in non-infected areas and return to their
village within a period not exceeding 24 hours, a permanent
pass in the form appended [Appendix D] to these régulations
may be issued instead of a passport. Such passes will be
issued by such officers as the Collector may appoint in this
behalf.
Any person refusing to comply with, or attempting tu
evade, this rule may be detained for ten days at the nearest
inspection station or other place appointed by the Collector
for the purpose in. addition to being subjected to the penalty
prescribed in No. 54 of these regulations.
Definition
of 'local
authority."
(2) By a "local authority " is meant any of the follow-
ing officers : —
(a) The local medical officer ;
(b) The station-house officer ;
(c) The headman of the village ;
(d) Any person appointed by the Collector of the
district for the purposes of this regulation.
In places where there is more than one local authority,
the duties prescribed in these rules shall be performed by,
or with the permission of the Collector under the orders of,
the officer who stands first in the order given in this clause.
Passport-
issuing
officers.
(3) The following officers are authorized to issue
passports :—
WC. t O
(a)
(b)
IJIJUJL UO .
To travellers alighting at rail-
way inspection stations.
To travellers alighting at rail-
way stations included within
municipal limits.
f
1
The medical officer in. charge or
other officer acting 1 und or his
orders.
Such medical, sanitary or other
officer as may be appointed
l»y the chairman with the
Collector's approval.
10
[Part I—Regulation. 1.
(c) To travellers alighting at other
railway stations.
(d) To travellers arriving by
steamer, ship or boat.
(e) To travellers arriving by road.
{
*
The stationmaster or other officer
appointed by the Collector for
the purpose.
he medical, sanitary or other
officer appointed to examine
such travellers.
'The medical, sanitary or other
officer appointed to examine such
travellers, or if no such officer
has been appointed, the local
authoritv of the place of arrival.
Duties of
passport-
holders.
(4) Every person required to take out a passport shall
declare truly his name, address, and such other particulars
as may be required by the officer issuing the passport. He
shall daily present himself with his passport at the appointed
time before the local authority (i.e., the passport-examining
officer) of the place where he may be for the time being and
obtain that officer's signature on his passport in token of
inspection. If he gets ill or if any sickness occurs in the house
in which he has been residing since his arrival from an. infected
or notified place, he shall give immediate information of the
same to the local authority. He shall report similarly any
change in his residence occurring within ten days from the date
of his arrival and shall, before departure, get the entries under
headings 11 and 12 of his passport altered by the local
authority. On the expiry of the said period of ten days, he
shall deliver up his passport to the local authority of the place
where he may then be.
Intimation
of issue of
passports.
(5) (i) The issue of a passport shall immediately be com-
municated by the officer issuing it to the local authority of
the place of destination by sending him the triplicate copy of
the passport. If the local authority of the place of destination
is not known, the triplicate copy of the passport shall be sent
to the tahsildar concerned for transmission to the local
officer by whom the traveller has to bo observed. The tripli-
cate copy of the passport may be transmitted by post, or by
a special messenger, or in any other manner which the Col-
lectors concerned may determine. Intimation of the issue of
passport need be telegraphed only in urgent cases.
(ii) The following procedure shall be followed in
respect to passport-holders who change their residence within
the Madras presidency within ten days of their arrival :—
(a) The local authority of the original place of
arrival shall send the triplicate copy of the passport to the
local authority of the new place of destination after noting
therein the number of days for which the passport holder has
been observed.
11
part I-Regulation L]
(b) If. the new place of destination is in another
district, the change of residence shall also be intimated
directly to the district medical and sanitary officer of that
district, and through the tahsildar or municipal chairman
I concerned to the district medical and sanitary officer of the
j original place of arrival.
Duties of
local
authority
or passport
examiner.
(6) The local authority of the place of destination shall
see that, on the arrival of the traveller, he is observed daily
for ten days. Any case of illness or death in the house in
which such traveller is or has been residing shall be forthwith
reported with, full details to the nearest officers of the medi-
cal and revenue departments. Particular attention should
be paid to eases of fever accompanied with acute affection of
the lungs, as these symptoms may indicate the existence of
pneumonic plague. The appearance of glandular swellings
attended by constitutional disturbance so slight as not to
prevent the patient moving about, the occurrence of abortion
amongst women, of convulsions amongst children and of
sudden death in the aged should not be ascribed to ordinary
causes without medical advice. After ten days, the duplicate
passport shall be recovered from the traveller and sent to the
tahsildar.
Persons
without
passports
how to be
dealt with.
(7) The headman of every village shall keep himself
promptly informed of the arrival of every person from an
infected or notified area without a passport and shall deal
with him or cause him to be dealt with as in the preceding
clauses of this regulation to which such person shall be
bound to submit himself.
Passport
examiner'3
register.
(8) A register, which may be kept in manuscript, shall
be maintained by each local authority in the following form :—
(1) Date of receipt of triplicate copy of passport or other
intimation.
(2) Name of traveller.
(3) From what infected or notified area arriving.
(4) Date of arrival of traveller.
(5) Number, date and place of issue of passport.
(6) How long kept under observation.
(7) State of health of the traveller and other persons livin
in the house in which he is or has been residing.
(8) Date of departure if occurring within ten days.
(9) Destination.
(10) Date of despatch of triplicate passporb to the local author-
ity of the place of destination, and of intimation to the
tahsildar or municipal chairman and district medical
and sanitary officer.
(11) Date of despatch of the duplicate passport to the tahsildar
and how despatched. If sent by messenger, his name
and time of his departure should be stated;
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[Part I—Regulation 1,
Intimation
in respect
to persons
passing
through a
railway
inspection
station.
(9) In the case of persons passing through a railway
frontier inspection station, the medical officer in charge
shall arrange to record the following information in respect
to every traveller from an. infected or notified area who is
not detained by him under the provisions of Ko. 3 of these
regulations and to send it without delay'—if possible by the
railway guard of the same or next train—to the district
medical and sanitary officer of the district to which such
traveller is proceeding :—
(1) Date of arrival.
(2) Name of traveller (in full, including house-name and caste-
title).
(3) Father's name.
(4) Caste.
(5) Age and sex.
(6) Whence coming.
(7) Bailway station of destination.
(8) Number of railway ticket.
Intimation
in respect to
other
travellers.
(10) In the case of other persons coming from an
infected or notified area, the duty of recording the above
information (excepting items 7 and 8) and communicating it.
to the district medical and sanitary officer shall devolve on
the officer issuing the passport.
Duties of
district
medical
and sanitary
officer and
tahsildav.
(11) The district medica and sanitary officer shall
forward the reports referred to in clauses (9) and (10) of this
regulation to the tahsildar concerned, whose duty it shall
be to see that the persons therein mentioned are duly
observed, and that any case of sickness or death in the
houses occupied by them is promptly reported, and to bring
to the Collector's notice all instances of omission to issue
passports or attempts to evade this regulation.
J ncapacitated
persons and
minors.
(12) In the case of incapacitated persona and persons
who are under 12 years of age, the obligation to take out
passports for them, to present them for daily inspection, to
report truly their names and addresses, to intimate any
change in their residence, and to comply otherwise with the
requirements of this regulation shall vest in their legal
guardians or persons in whose charge they travel or who
receive them at the railway station of destination.
/
(9) Destination and resi- ¡
dence during the
next ten days.
District.
Taluq.
Village (or anisara and dcsam).
Street.
Number or name of the owner of
the house.
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Part I—Regulation 2.]
Notice in
railway
carriages
regarding
passports.
(13) All railway administrations shall put up in a
conspicuous place in every railway carriage a copy of the
following notice in English and in the principal vernacular
language of the country through which the railway line
passes :—
Noticed
The Madias plague regulations require all passengers arriving from
plague-infected parts to take out passports at the station where they
alight, or
(1) in the case of passengers proceeding to Madras by the North-
East line of the Madras Railway, at Bitragunta ;
(2) in the case of those arriving at Madras hy the other lines of
the Madras railway, at Perambúr ; and
(3) in the case of passengers proceeding to Méttupálaiyam or to
stations on the Nilgiri Railway, at Coimbatore.
Persons infringing the regulations render themselves Kable to
prosecution.
Tasiildar's
duties may be
performed by
municipal
chairman
and that of
district
medical and
sanitary
officer by
Collector.
(14) In nmnicipalities, the tahsildar's duties under this
regulation shall be performed by the municipal chairman.
The term " tahsildar " in this and other regulations includes
deputy tahsildar.
The duties ofí the district medical and sanitary officer
under clause (11) of this regulation may be performed by the
Collector in districts where this course is found convenient.
In such cases, the intimations referred to in clauses (9) and
(10) should be sent to the Collector.
Information
regarding
plague cáses
and arrivals
from infected
areas.
2. (1) In every district municipality and every town or
village, every house-holder and every medical practitioner
practising therein who becomes cognizant of the occurrence in
Ids house or in any public or private dwelling or place within
the limits of the municipality, town or village, of any case of
plague or of fever with glandular swellings, and in tho case of
persons who live within an area that has been notified as
infected or who have been in any way exposed to plague
infection, of acute affections of the lung, of convulsions in
children, abortion in women and sudden death in the aged,
shall be bound to give information of the same, with the least
practicable delay, in the municipality to the chairman of the
council and the medical officer in charge of the municipal
dispensary or hospital, and in a town or village not being a
municipality, to the village head or to the nearest officers of
the revenue and medical departments, who shall report the
fact at once to their immediate official superiors.
(2) Every house-holder and every keeper or person in
charge of an hotel, chuttram or other place of public resort,
a As amended by notifications No. 543, Fort St. George Gazette, dated und July
1901, part I-A, page 364; No. 569, Fort St. George Gazette, dated 27th May 1902,
part I-A, page 198.