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(4) To stop all passengers presenting plague-punched
tickets from infected or notified stations until their names
and addresses are taken down, and they are given passports
either by the plague official appointed for the purpose or by
the station staff themselves at smaller stations.
(5) To disinfect railway carriages from infected areas
and carriages in which persons suffering or suspected to be
suffering from plague have travelled.
(6) To take steps for tracing and destroying rats that
may arrive from infected areas concealed in the goods
imported.
(7) To put up a notice in all railway carriages inti-
mating that passengers from infected parts should take out
passports at stations of destination.
(8) To lock the carriages before the arrival of the train
at the inspection station.
(9) To detain the train until the medical inspection
is over.
(1.0) To see that no passenger is permitted to leave his
carriage until in orderly course the arrangement shall be
complete for his examination.
(11) To give every assistance to the medical officers
conducting the inspection in order to minimise the detention
of trains.
(12) To carry out the instructions regarding the trans-
mission of the names and addresses of passengers.
(13) To afford every facility towards the working of
the plague regulations generally.
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APPENDIX B.
GENERAL PASS,
[See Regulation 31 on page 25.]
(To be issued for daily or frequent journeys by road or boat from an
infected area.)
No.
District.
Station of issue.
Name of person.
Father's name.
Caste.
Age.
Ordinary residence.
Journey covered by this pass.
This pass protects the person named abovo and the members of
his family mentioned on the reverse, but it does not authorize journey
by rail, for which a separate pass shall be obtained by each individual
requiring it, nor docs it cover residence outside the village of
It will be in force until revoked.
Signature.
Designation.
Date.
(Reverse of Form.}
Name.
How related to pass-holder.
Signature.
Designation.
Date.
K
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APPENDIX C.
GENERAL PASS.
[See Regulation 31 on page 25.]
(To be issued for daily or frequent journeys by rail from an
infected area.)
No.
District.
Station of issue.
Name of person.
Father's name.
Caste.
Age.
Ordinary residence.
Journey covered by this pass.
Signature.
Designation.
Date.
APPENDIX D.
GENERAL PASS.
[See Regulation 31 on page 25.]
(To be issued to persons who leave an infected or notified place to
attend markets in the adjoining non-infected area.)
1. Inspection station through which the holder will pass.
2. Railway station where the holder will alight.
3. Name of person.
4. Father's name.
5. Caste.
6. Age.
7. Sex.
8. From what infected or notified place
9. To what market
District.
Taluq.
Village.
District.
Taluq.
Village.
Appendix
E.]
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This pass allows the holder to remain in the village of
for 24 hours at a time without a passport. On the expiry of the period
he must either have left the village or have provided himself with a
passport. He must show this pass to the officer in charge of the
inspection station through which he will have to pass when proceeding
to the village where the market is held and to the passport-issuing
officer at the railway station where he alights as also to the local
authority of the village at or near which the market is held and obtain
their initials on the reverse. He will likewise show this pass on his
return to the officers mentioned above and obtain their initials. There
is, however, no necessity to present it at the railway inspection station
if there be no medical inspection on his return journey from the village.
Holder's signature
Date
Signature of issuing officer.
APPENDIX E.
SPECIAL PASS,
[See Regulation 31 on page 25.]
(To be issued to persons leaving an inhabited infected area to reside in
its neighbourhood.)
No,
District.
Station of issue.
Number of office of issue.*
Name of person.
Fatner's name.
Caste.
Occupation.
Age.
Ordinary residence.
The above-named person (and his family consisting of
males
and
females as per reverse) is/are permitted to reside temporarily at
(name of site or number of field) on his producing this pass, with the
accompanying certificate † duly filled in by the officer responsible for
disinfection,
Date.
Signature and designation.
* To be entered when there is more than one office of issue in a town.
† If the family leaves a healthy area of the town or a house that has not been
infected, this part of the certificate may be dispensed with at the discretion of the
issuing officer.
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[Appendix F.
(Reverse of Form.)
Name.
How related to pass-holder.
Signature.
Designation.
Date.
Disinfection Certificate.
I hereby certify that having satisfied myself that arrangements for
residence at the site named by the above-described person (and his
family) were complete. I immediately before his/their departure carefully
, him
disinfected all clothing and property removed by them.
Date.
Signature of officer in charge of ,
disinfection.
APPENDIX F.
[See Regulation 51 on page 30.]
[COUNTERFOIL. ]
No.
Name
Father's name
Street
Village
Town
Taluq
District
Date
Initials of operator.
Plague Inoculation
No.
CERTIFIED that
, resident of
Town
: Taluq
Certificate.
, son of
Street
' Village
, District
, has been, inoculated by me, and
that his thumb-mark was at the time impressed
before me.
Space for left thumb-mark. Signature and
designation.
Dated
NOTE.—Unless suffering from, or suspected to be suffering from,
plague, the holder of the certificate is exempted from segregation,
from detention when travelling and from ten days' observation
under the passport rules. It does not, however, exempt him from
liability to evacuate an infected house, except in the case where all
the occupants of the house have been inoculated, or to have his clothes
disinfected when travelling. The certificate is valid for
a period of six months.
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APPENDIX G.
Register of permanent passes issued to persons attending markets,
[See Rule 57 on page 50.]
Name of person.
1
Pass number.
Date of
Arrival.
Return.
R e m arks
APPENDIX H.
Relaxation of Passport Rules.
[See Rule 60 on page 50.]
The inconveniences and difficulties attending the working of tne
passport rules in the case of railway officers have been brought to notice
both by the railway authorities and Collectors. A general relaxation
of the rules cannot be made in favour of any particular class, and in
the case of railway servants is especially undesirable, for there is reason
to believe that it has been by this class that infection has been carried
to several places. The trouble that is now experienced by those con-
stantly 011 the move may be avoided by them, if they are willing to be
inoculated, and no relaxation of the rules is called for in the case of
those who are unwilling to be inoculated and to whom the inconvenience
is merely personal.
2. There are persons, however, constantly employed on the railways
such, as engine drivers, firemen, guards and mail sorters, with regard to
whom, as long as they are on actual duty from day to day, the strict
enforcement of the passport rules may result in public inconvenience
and in their cases some relaxation may be granted. The duties of
these men are of a fairly constant nature, and they halt for any length
of time only at the larger stations, where their absence from regular
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[Appendix H.
duty must come at once to the notice of a superior officer. On the appli-
cation of the railway or postal authorities, Collectors may exempt by
name from the ordinary passport rules individual servants of the classes
mentioned, on the understanding that the officer to whom they are
immediately subordinate must report at once to the nearest local authority
every case of sickness among the servants to whom the exemption is
given. Any permanent change in the nature of the duties performed
should be reported to the officer granting an exemption certificate.
Persons so exempted shall be provided with tickets in the following
form :—
(Name)
, son of
, employed as
and ordinarily residing at
, has been
exempted from the passport rules (mufassal plague regulation 1) as
long as he travels on duty as such
between the stations of
and
Mark of left thumb.
Signature, designation and seal of officer issuing the ticket,
It should be understood that exemption from the passport rules does
not carry exemption from any of the other regulations framed under
the Epidemic Diseases Act.
3. Other classes of railway servants arc probably less frequently on
the move and the enforcement of the rules among them is likely to
result less frequently in public inconvenience. In cases of real diffi-
culty, it may be possible to arrange under mufassal regulation 1 (1)
for the inspection of the passport holder at the railway station, or,
under mufassal regulation 43, railway officers of known and approved
character and responsible position may be appointed honorary
assistant plague officers, and empowered under mufassal regulation
1 (2) (d) as " local authorities " at certain stations for the working of
the passport rules among railway servants.
4. Under regulation 82, Collectors may exempt from the necessity
of taking out passports any person with regard to whom there are no
reasonable grounds for suspicion of infection. Such exemptions must
be made personally, not generally, and should be granted sparingly.
5. Any concession may be withdrawn at any time without assigning
a reason.
APPENDIX I.
Intimation Form.
[See Rule 66 on page 52.]
Date of
arrival.
1
Name of traveller.
2
Father's name.
3
Caste.
4
Age.
5
Whence
coming.
Destination and residence during the next ten days.
District.
7
Taluq.
8
Village.
9
Street.
10
Number or name
of the owner of the
house.
11
Remarks.
12
N,B.—A single form may be used for more than one traveller proceeding on the same day to the same district.
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APPENDIX J.
Time allowed at inspection stations for plague examination.
[See Rule 70 on page 52.]
Railway
administration
Madras Rail way
Do.
Do.
Southern
Mahratta
Railway.
Inspection or passport
station.
Tungabhadra, .
Jolarpet
C oimbatore
Hindupur
Time required for inspection or
issue of passports.
Thirty-six minutes for all trains
from Bombay or Raichur.
Fifty minutes for mail trains and
thirty minutes for passenger
trains from Bangalore.
Twenty minutes for mail trains
and thirty minutes foi other
trains from Pódanúr.
Thirty-two minutes for all trains
from Bangalore.
APPENDIX K.
Detention Certificate.
[See Rules 22 and 77 on pages 39 and 54.]
. Camp.
1. Name of passenger
2. Number and description of ticket
3. Detained from
to
4. Name and designation of issuing officer
APPENDIX L.
Return of persons detained at inspection stations.
[See Rule 78 on page 54.]
Return for week ending Monday the
190 .
1. Number admitted up to the end of the preceding week.
2. Number accounted for up to the end of the preceding
week ...
3. Balance (i.e., 1—2) ,..
4. Number admitted during the present week
5. Total number to be accounted for (i.e., 3 + 4)
6. Number accounted for—
(a.) by deaths ...
(b) by removal to plague hospital
(c) by discharge on expiration of detention period.
(d) otherwise (give details) ...
Total (a + b + c + d) ...
7. Balance at the end of the week (5 — 6)
..,
.,,
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APPENDIX M,
Statement to accompany proposals for placing restrictions on
fairs and festivals.
[See Rule 88 on page 50.]
Name
of
festival
or
fair.
1
Place
where
held.
2
Distance
to
nearest
railway
station.
3
Date of
commence-
ment and
termination|
of festival
or fair.
4
Average
attendance
during the
past three
years.
5
From what districts in
the Madras presidency
and from what places
outside the presidency,
pilgrimage should be
prohibited, and the
number of people
expected from each of
such districts or places.
6
3
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APPENDIX. N.
Notifications for placing restrictions on fairs and festivals.
[See Rule 88 on page 56.]
NOTIFICATION No. I.
["To be used when the village where the festival or fair is held lies within an
infected taluq.J
WHEREAS there is plague in the
taluq of the
district, and whereas it is desirable to prevent its spread :
His Excellency the Governor in Council, in exercise of the powers
delegated to him under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, prohibits
pilgrimage to the
festival at
in the said taluq from
the
to the
•
,
inclusive, [and also the holding of the usual cattle fair in connection
with the said festival,] | and further directs that between the said dates
no tickets to travel by railway shall be sold within tho
district[s] for the station[s] of
on
the
Railway] [and for
the station[s] of
on the
Eailway] to any person intending or believed to be intending to be
present.
All persons proceeding to the said festival [or fair] in contravention
of this notification will be turned back.
Secretary to Government.
NOTIFICATION No. II.
[To bo used when the village where the festival or fair is held lies in the vicinity
of an infected area and it is necessary to make the prohibition absolute-]
WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor in Council is satisfied that
there is danger of an outbreak of plague at
in the
taluq of
the
district, if pilgrims
are permitted to visit that place on the occasion of the ensuing
festival of
[and tho usual cattle fair is per-
mitted to be held at that place] :
In exercise of the powers delegated to him under the Epidemic
Diseases Act, 1897, His Excellency in Council prohibits [the holding
of tho said fair and also the] pilgrimage to the said festival from tho
to the
, inclusive, [and further
directs that between the said dates no tickets to travel by railway shall
be sold within the
district[s] for the station[s] of
on the
Railway]
[and for the station[s]
of
on the
Railway]
to any person
intending or believed to be intending to be present.
All persons proceeding to the said festival [or fair] in contravention
of this notification will be turned back,
Secretary to Government.
Appendix
O.]
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NOTIFICATION No. III.
[To bo used in cases where the prohibition is not absolute.]
WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor in Council is satisfied that
there is danger of an outbreak of plague at
in the
taluq of the
district, if persons from the
and other parts declared to be infected with plague are
permitted to visit that place on the occasion of the ensuing
festival [and cattle fair] :
In exercise of the powers delegated to him under the Epidemic
Diseases Act, 1897, His Excellency in Council prohibits [the holding
of the cattle fair and also] the attendance at the said festival [or fair]
from the
to the
inclusive, of persons from the said parts, [and further directs that be-
tween the said dates no tickets to travel by railway shall be sold within
the
district[s]
for the
staton[s] of
on the
Railway [and for the station [s] of
on the
railway] to any person intending
or believed to bo intending to be present.
All persons proceeding to the said festival [or fair] in contravention
of this notification will be turned back.
Secretary to Government.
.
.
APPENDIX O.
Plague Report.
[See Rule 07 on page 59.]
Plague
Report
District.
Date
No.
1. Name of town or village—.
2. Population of town or village—.
3.
Number of seizures—.
3. Plague cases up to Numbor of deaths-.
date of last report Date of last report-.
Imported. Indigenous.
4. Date of present attack—.
5. When reported by telegram—
6. Imported or indígenous— ?
7. Brief history of case—.
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[Appendix P.
8. If imported, had patient a passport on arrival ? If not, did the
local authority responsible supply one, or otherwise maintain,
surveillance— ?
9. Steps taken to isolate and treat the patient—.
10. Steps taken towards the segregation of contacts—.
11. Steps taken, towards the evacuation and disinfection of the infected
house—.
12. Was there any opposition on the part of the inmates of the infected
house or of the people of the village to the plague measures— ?
13. Bemarks.
APPENDIX P.
Destruction of Plague Records.
[See Kule 104 on page 02.]
Description of records.
1. Daily reports relating to passports.
2. Daily intimations furnished to the
district medical and sanitary
officer by the medical officer in
charge of a railway inspection
station under mufassal regula-
tion 1 (9).
8. Daily intimations furnished to the
district medical and sanitary
officer by passport-issuing officers
under mufassal regulation 1 (10).
4* Intimations of change of residence
of persons while under observa-
tion.
5. Daily reports of plague cases and
deaths in the Mysore State.
6. Daily reports of plague cases and
deaths in Bangalore.
7. Weekly reports of plague cases and
deaths in the Bombay presidency
and the Hyderabad State.
8. Weekly returns of deaths in muni-
. cipalities.
9. Daily telegrams of plague cases
received by the Collector and the '
district medical and sanitary
officer under mufassal regula-
tion 24,
J
When to be destroyed.
At the same time as the
passports to which they
relate.
At the close of the month
succeeding that to which
they relate.
After one year.
Appendix Q.]
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10. Weekly diaries of plague super-
visors and sanitary inspectors in
charge of observation circles.
11. Daily reports of passengers in-
spected and of those detained at
railway inspection stations.
12. Weekly returns of inoculations
received from the
district
medical and sanitary officer.
13. Weekly returns received from
divisional officers of breaches of
passport rules dealt with by
them.
1
After one year.
APPENDIX Q.
Distribution of spare copies of printed orders of Government.
[See Rule 105 on page 62.]
A. Collector's office (three copies).
B. Divisional officers (each one copy).
C. Treasury deputy collector (one copy).
D. Tahsildars (each one copy).
E. Deputy tahsildars in independent charge (each one copy).
F. District medical and sanitary officer and civil surgeons (one copy).
G. Additional medical officer on plague duty (one copy).
H. Medical officer in charge of plague inspection station (one copy).
J. Special plague officers (each one copy).
K. Municipalities (each two copies).
L. President, district board (one copy).
M. Taluk boards (each one copy).
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APPENDIX E.
PART I.—Allowances of Officers deputed to Plague Duty.
[See Rule 119 on page 66.]
Class of officers.
A. Military officers
and troops.
†
‡
B. Medical
officers wholly
employed
on
plague duty.
Particulars.
(a) When
employed
on
guard duty.*
(b) When.
employed
on
sanitary duty, such as
searching, disinfect-
ing,
superintending,
scavengering, &e. —
(i) Combatant British
commissioned
officers of over 5
years' service.
(ii) Combatant British
commissioned
officers under 5
years' service.
(iii) British non-com-
missioned
officers.
(iv) British privates.
(v) Native officers.
(vi) Native non-com-
missioucd
officers.
(vii) Sepoy's ..,
(i) Commissioned officers
transferred from regi-
mental or purely mili-
tary duty.
(ii) Commissioned
officers in civil cm-
ploy.
(iii) Senior military assist-
Allowances.
Nil.
lîs. 300 a month.
Rs. 200 a month.
Re. 1 + annas 6 extra ration
money per diem.
Annas 32 + annas 6 extra
ration money per diem.
Rs. 1-8-0 a day.
Annas 12 a day.
Annas 8 a day.
Same as in the case of British
commissioned military officers.
Rs. 5 a day.
Rs. 5 a day.
ant surgeons with
the honorary rank j
of Captain, or Lieu- |
tenant.
* When the troops employed on plague duty have been performing guard and
sanitary duties in the same place together, that is to say, when some of the party
have been employed on sanitary duties while others have been doing guard duty,
the duties being interchangeable, all the troops should be paid [allowances. On
the other hand, where the duties assigned to any one body of troops have been
exclusively of the nature of guard duties no allowances should be granted. The
allowances shall be paid only for the days on which the troops are actually
employed on plague duty. All doubtful cases should be referred for the special
orders of Government.
† Medical officers whose sole duty is the inspection of ships for plague purposes
are not entitled to any special fee for conducting inspection in rough weather.
‡ Port health officers called on to inspect vessels from plague-infected ports or.
Sundays and closed holidays will be granted a special fee of Rs. 16 for each inspection)
but not more than double fee in respect to the same vessel inspected more than
once on the same day.
No port health officer shall, in any one month, receive fees
aggregating mure than one-fifth of his salary.
Appendix
R.]
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PART I.—Allowances of Officers deputed to Plague Duty— continued.
Class of officers.
B. Medical officers
wholly
em-
ployed
on
plagne duty —
cont.
C, Medical officers,
doing plague
work in addi-
tion to their
ordinary
duties.
P articulais.
(iv) Military
assistant
surgeons in civil or
military employ, on
pay exceeding Rs.
150.
(v) Military
assistant
surgeons in civil or
military employ, on
pay not exceeding
Rs. 150.
(vi) Civil assistant sur-
geons.
(vii) Civil apothecaries ...
(viii) Hospital assistants
engaged on plague
duty involving per-
sonal risk, such as
attending on plague
patients.
(ix) Hospital assistants
engaged on light
plague dnty, such as
inspection of pas-
sen gor s .
(1) * † Commissioned
officers.
(2) * † Medical sub-
o rdinates
(3) Nurses or m idwives.
Allowances.
Rs. 3 a
day.
«
Us. 2 a
day.
(
(In addition to any
acting, charge or
house
allowance
they may have been
drawing at the time
of their deputation
to plague duty and
which they would
have continued to
draw but for such
deputation.
Rs. 2 a day.
Rs. 25 a month, or in the case of
men, who, at the time of their
deputation, were in independ-
ent charge, the full charge
allowance of their grades.
Annas 8
a day.
Rs. 10 a
month.
In addition to house-
rent or free quar-
ters, but in lien of
charge
allowance.
‡ Such local allowance, not
exceeding one-fifth of the
salary, as may be fixed in
each case by Government.
The allowance should be
given only to officer's whose
additional plague work, such
as that of medical inspection
of passengers by road or
lailway, is entirely separate
from, and outside the sphere
of, their ordinary duties and
not to officers whose ordinary
and legitimate work, such as
that of attending on the sick
in hospital, has been in-
creased owing to the occur-
rence of plague.
* A special fco of Rs. 15 will be paid for every inspection of vessels conducted
in bad weather when it involves extraordinary risk.
† See note ‡ on the previous page.
‡ When the out-door plague work of a medical subordinate is so heavy as to
necessitate the use of a conveyance, carts or jutkas may be provided for him by the
local body concerned. The actual charges incurred in the payment of hire should be
debited to 'Contingencies,'
.
,