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APPENDIX 4.
(1) Notification, dated 13th March 1897.—The public are in formed that house-to-house
inspections for the discovery of plague patients will take place daily in the City commencing at
6-30 A.M. It is necessary to examine all houses whether they are apparently occupied or not.
and owners of unoccupied houses should therefore leave the keys with some neighbour as the
doors will have to be forced open should it be impossible to open them otherwise.
(2) Notification, dated 15th March 1897.—The public are informed that the following-
operations for the suppression of the plague are being carried out in Poona City.
House-to-house visitation for the discovery of persons suffering from plague and dead bodies
is made by parties of British soldiers accompanied by ladies and Native gentlemen. All sick
persons found in the houses are examined by a medical man or woman, and if after examination
they are suspected to be suffering from plague they are removed to a plague hospital where
they may be accompanied by one attendant. Inmates of houses in which cases of plague are
found are removed to a segregation camp and detained there 10 days. Persons removed to a
segregation camp may take with them clothes, bedding and other articles they will require
while residing there.
The fumigation parties have instructions to fumigate houses in which deaths or plague
cases have occurred. After a house has been fumigated it should be left closed for four hours,
after which the property inside may be taken charge of by the neighbours, or will, if the owner
desires and the property is not bulky, be removed to the Municipal warehouse. Infected
houses will be limewashed subsequently to fumigation. In addition to infected houses lime-
washers have instructions to limewash any house which is not in a sanitary condition.
(3) Notification, dated 13th March 1897.—House-holders are informed that when
dwelling-houses are found vacated in the City of Poona they will be deemed to be infectel by
plague and will be dealt with accordingly.
(4) Notification, dated 17th March 1897.—The public are informed that the following
instructions have been issued regarding the destruction of proper by in plague operations : —
When a plague-stricken person is found by a search party the mat or bedding which he
has been using should be burnt in the street. No other property should be destroyed by the
search parties.
No property should be destroyed by fumigating parties.
Before limewashing a house a limewashing party should burn all rubbish found in the
house, but should not destroy property of any value to the inmates except when specially
directed by a Medical Officer to do so.
(5) Notification, dated 25th March 1897.—The public are informal that all complaint
relating to the behaviour of British and Native soldiers employed on searching, fumigating or
limewashing should be male on the spot to the Officer in command ou the division to which the
soldiers belong. If the making of complaints is deferred till after the conclusion of the day's
operations, it will usually be impossible to make any satisfactory inquiry into them.
(True copies)
R. A. LAMB,
Chairman, Poona Plague Committee.
12th August 1897.