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for individuality but few directions are given concerning the method of writing the diary ; attention is,,
however, invited to the notes printed under the heading of Form No. XIX containing an extract from a
letter concerning the submission of reports on plague operations, which will afford an indication of points
which it is desirable to notice. It should be understood that in the diary reference is to be made only to such
matters as have happened or have been noticed during the week.
Executive Plague Officer's Register and Weekly
Report
Executive Plague Officer's Register of Plague infor-
mation—(Form No. XXII).
4S. (1) The Executive Plague Officer shall maintain for his charge a register of villages in which
plague has occurred or in which inoculation has been
introduced or performed since the 1st October 1902.
At least one page should be devoted to each village,
and entries should be made for villages into which
inoculation has been introduced even if plague has
not broken out in them. The register will be main-
tained in the appended Form No. XXII. Entries in
columns, 1 to 6 shall be made from particulars received in the daily returns submitted to the Executive
Plague Officer in Forms Nos, II and VII,. but they will be checked if possible by enquiry in the villages con-
cerned and corrected if necessary. All corrections found to be necessary shall be promptly communicated
to the District Plague Medical Officer, and corrections intimated by the District Plague Medical Officer
shall be noted in the register.
Executive Plague Officer's Weekly Plague Report
— (Form No XXIII).
(2) Every Tuesday the Executive Plague Officer will submit through the Deputy Commissioner and
Commissioner to the Judicial and General Secretary to
the Punjab Government direct, at Lahore or Simla as
the case may be, a Weekly Plague Report in the
Form No. XXIII appended. The figures in this
weekly report will be those for the week ending on the Saturday week before the date of the report, but the
remarks should be brought as much up to date as possible. After the reports have been perused, such
orders as the Lieutenant-Governor may direct will issue upon them, being accompanied by extracts from
the reports where necessary, and the reports will then be forwarded to the Chief Plague Medical
Officer for record and reference in his office and for use in the preparation of the Annual Plague Report.
Deputy Commissioners and Revenue officials to give
assistance necessary for preparation of returns, &c.
49. Deputy Commissioners and all Revenue officials of infected districts should give every assis-
tance that may be required in preparing the prescribed
registers and keeping them correct and up to date.
These registers and returns have been prescribed with
a view to give the most complete and immediate infor-
mation to all authorities who are concerned in the administration of plague measures, and in order to enable
the results of inoculation to be followed up. It is particularly in order to serve this last purpose, and to
complete the chain of investigation, and thereby secure a very large ultimate saving of time and labour,
that the registers numbered I, II, VI, XIII and XXI have been prescribed. With operations of
the magnitude now being undertaken in the Punjab it is incumbent on Government to make every effort to
follow up the results of inoculation, and in order to do so it is essential that there should be a current record
both of the number of operations and of the plague incidence and fatality among inoculated and uninocu-
Vated persons. Unless plague occurrences among the inoculated are brought on to the inoculation records
as they occur, it will be impossible to obtain accurate statistics of relative incidence, and unless the statis-
tics are collated at least every week the ultimate examination of the accumulated mass of records would
give results that could not be checked and would be a difficult matter, involving much labour and time.
For these reasons it is absolutely essential that all the records prescribed for submission to or preparation
by Medical Officers should be carefully and promptly maintained. It is, however, possible that the returns
prescribed with the object of keeping Civil Officers informed of the state of affairs may be more than they
require. Thus some Deputy Commissioners may prefer to dispense with daily returns direct from Patwárís
and Inoculating Officers in Forms Nos. II and VII and may be content with the District Plague Medical
Officer's returns in Form No. XIV and with weekly details concerning infected places in Forms Nos. IV
and VIII. They may therefore dispense with such of the returns prescribed for submission to them as
they may not require. In addition to the returns prescribed above Deputy Commissioners will receive such
information regarding the outbreak and progress of infection in the villages of their district as they may
direct their Revenue subordinates to submit, but they should not prescribe daily or other periodical reports
of statistics and should not call for any returns not prescribed for submission to them, e.g., the return in
Form No. XVII, unless arrangements can be made for copying these returns by mechanical means.
50. If any return is blank, the form need not be submitted, but a blank return statement should be
sent in to that effect.
Registers and Returns obtainable by indent on Dis-
infection Depôt, Jullundur.
51. Forms for all the Registers and Returns prescribed above will be supplied by Government on
requisition to the Superintendent of the. Disinfection.
Depôt at Jullundur.