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(2) The removal of persons who were apparently healthy, but had
been exposed to plague infection, to segregation camps.
(3) The disinfection of houses and moveable property which had been
exposed to infection.
7. For the first of these measures the requisites were properly equipped
plague hospitals and a reliable agency for finding and removing plague
patients.
The plague hospitals in use during the operations were five in number—
(1) The General Plague Hospital at the Sangam.
(2) The Mahomedan Plague Hospital on the Shankarshet Road.
(3) The Hindu Plague Hospital near the Lakdi Pul.
(4) The Sassoon Hospital (for Europeans and observation cases
only).
(5) The Pársi Plague Hospital near the Rifle Range.
Of these the first and the fourth were under official management, while the
second, third and fifth were managed by private individuals subject to the
control of the Plague Committee. The removal of all persons known or sus-
pected to be suffering from plague to one or other of these hospitals was insisted
on. For finding and removing plague patients to hospital, both military and
civil agency was used. The military agency used consisted of search parties
composed of soldiers working under the command of British Officers, and
attended by native gentlemen, lady searchers and medical officers. The duty
of the search parties was to search periodically all houses and other places
where sick persons were likely to be within the area subject to the Plague
Committee in order to discover plague cases and unburied corpses. All sick
persons found in the search were examined by a Medical Officer, and if he
found or had reason to suspect that they were suffering from plague, they were
forwarded to a plague hospital. Arrangements were made for the disposal of
unburied corpses either by the friends of the deceased or by men told off for
that duty. The civil agency used for the detection and removal of plague
patients consisted of medical subordinates who were assisted by Municipal
Inspectors and worked under European supervision. Their duty was to obtain
information by all means in their power of the occurrence of plague cases
within the local areas assigned to them, and to remove the sufferers to hospital.
8. For the reception of apparently healthy persons who had been exposed
to plague infection there were four segregation camps—
(1) The General Segregation Camp on the Shankarshet Road.
(2) The Mahomedan Segregation Camp on the Shankarshet Road.
(3) The Cantonment Segregation Camp near the Rifle Range.
(4) The Pársi Segregation Camp near the Rifle Range.
The persons liable to be removed to a segregation camp were the inmates
of buildings which were believed to have been occupied by sufferers from plague
and also the inmates of buildings where it was believed that any death had
occurred which had not been certified by a Medical Officer holding Her
Majesty's Commission or some other Medical Officer empowered by the Plague
Committee to certify in that behalf to be due to some cause other than plague.
Persons found in the company of a sufferer from the plague were also liable to
be segregated. The period of detention in the segregation camps was 10 days.
Persons found at any time during that period to be suffering from plague were
removed to a plague hospital. Segregation parties composed of Native Infantry
were appointed for the removal to the camps of the persons liable to segre-
gation.
9. The work of disinfecting infected houses and their contents was carried
out chiefly by military, but in part by civil agency in Poona City. In Poona
Cantonment and in Suburban limits it was carried out entirely by civil agency.
The troops employed on disinfection work were divided into fumigators and
lime-washers, all of whom, worked under the command of British Officers. Dis-
infection with perchloride of mercury and other chemicals as well as fumigation
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