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24th March. Ware-house guard.—From to-night a military guard of one Non-Commis-
sioned Officer and three Privates, Native Infantry, to be furnished day and night over the
segregation warehouse in the city.
Fumigation.—The very careful attention of Officer Commanding Fumigation Divisions
called to paragraph 3 of their instructions. Officers must not listen to statements of people
in a house as to a case not having occurred there. As in most cases the people are lying.
All houses marked with a vertical red line, or which appear on the list, must be fumigated
and the occupants, if any, be sent to the Segregation Comp. The only cases in which houses
on the list need not be fumigated are—
(a) When they have not been inhabited since date of last fumigation ; this date
would appear on the Municipal mark.
(b) When a City Sanitary Inspector assures the Officer Commanding Division that
no case has occurred in the house.
Medical.—Officer Commanding the Search Divisions informed that on occasions when
the Native Doctor says that a case is not one of plague the opinion of a British Medical
Officer is to be obtained before letting the case go.
25th March. Medical.—The services of the Native Doctors have been dispensed with
and from to-morrow each British Medical Officer will be in charge of two divisions. Surgeon
Captain Beveridge will arrange for the re-distribution of Medical Officers, and each Medical
Officer will arrange with Officer Commanding Search Division as to the spot where he is to
be found.
1st April. Cavalry Palrols.—No corpse should be stopped if the persons in charge of
it have a certificate of registry of death.
If the persons in charge of a corpse have no certificate of registry, one of the party
should be handed over to the police at the nearest chowki, and the rest of the party with the
corpse allowed to proceed.
When the Cavalry find a sick person they should send him to the " Sangam " Plague
Hospital, where he will be examined by the Hospital Assistant and admitted or discharged
according to the result of the examination.
Segregation of the healthy is no part of the duty of Cavalry employed by night.
26th March. Search.— When the soldiers of a search party do not enter the god-room
or cook-room of a house they should look into these rooms from the doorway and require all
persons inside them to come out for inspection, either by the men of the party or (if the
people of the house wish it) by a lady searcher.
If there is no native gentleman with the party and the soldiers cannot ascertain that
these rooms contain 110 sick persons, unless they enter them, these rooms must be searched in
the same way as the rest of the house.
Lime-washing.—Officer Commanding Divisions should go if possible to each house that
is to be lime-washed and decide what property, rafters, mats, &c., are to be destroyed.
When property of any value to the owners is destroyed by a lime-washing party the Officer
Commanding the Division should note the approximate cost of replacing what has been
destroyed in order that compensation may afterwards be paid.
Search and Segregation Squads.—Officer Commanding Search Divisions and Segregation
Squads should be told to bring to the notice of people about to be segregated the advisability
of taking with them cooking pots, bedding, change of clothes, &c., &c.
Lime-washing.— Calling attention of Officer Commanding Lime-wash Divisions that
bonfires are not to be made.
3rd April. Orders.— Instructing that when a party visits a house one man should go to
the back.
The inmates should be required to come out in front of the house and should there be
inspected. The soldiers should then enter and search the house, observing the rules relating
to god-rooms and cook-rooms. If it contains purdah women and the owners object to this
they should be inspected in a well lighted room by a lady searcher.
5th April. Search.— Instructing that one inmate of the house must accompany the men
while the house is being searched. The Sappers of the party not to enter the house.
5th April. Search.—Instructing Officer Commanding Search Divisions not to disinter
corpses without the orders of a Medical Officer.
8th April. Cavalry Patrols and Picquets.—Instructing Cavalry and Native Infantry that
sick persons found by the picquets and patrols should be removed to hospital with as little
delay as possible.
Search Parties.—Informing Officer Commanding Search Divisions that the orders regard-
ing the assembling of all the occupants of a house outside in the street are rescinded and
that the former procedure of searching is to be reverted to.