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APP. IV.] Regulations under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
accordance with the customs of their religion, of the bodies of those
who have died.
(ii) Duties of the Police.
List (A) of vil-
lages having
communication
with infected
areas.
Notification
No.
384
XV1-404-B.
dated the 5th
June 1897.
Report of ar-
rivals from in-
fected areas.
(List B).
2. (1) The officer in charge of every police station shall forthwith
bring upon a list (A) the names of all villages in his circle, the inhabit-
ants or any portion of the inhabitants of which are ascertained to
have trade relations or other connection with the Bombay Presidency
or Karachi or other place in which bubonic plague is prevalent.
(2) Every village policeman shall enquire and report without
delay the name of every person in his village who has arrived from
the direction of Bombay or Karachi or other place in which bubonic
plague is prevalent since the 1st of January 1897 ; he will also report
all fresh arrivals as they occur. The names so reported will be entered
on a list (B).
Report of ex-
cessive mortality
among rats.
Report of
deaths in vil-
lages in list A.
(3) Every village policeman shall also report any excessive mor-
tality among rats that may come to his notice.
3. In the case of every village entered in list A, reports of all
deaths shall be made daily, as in the case of cholera epidemics ; and
the officer in charge of the police station, on receiving report of a
death, shall carefully enquire from the person making the report
whether the deceased person had symptoms of bubonic plague as
described in Annexure I.
Report of
deaths of per-
sons in list B.
4. Similar inquiry shall be made in the event of a report being
received of the death of any person whose name is entered in list B
or of any person in that household.
Report of
unusual mor-
tality in any vil-
lage.
5. Whenever the deaths reported from any village (whether on list
A or B or not) are more frequent than usual, and especially sudden
deaths attributed to fever, the officer in charge of the police station
shall make inquiries with a view to ascertaining whether the symptoms
of bubonic plague existed.
Enquiry into
suspicious
deaths.
6. On ascertaining from a village policeman or other source of
information that a death in a village was preceded by symptoms such
as those described in Annexure I, the officer in charge of the police
station will either go himself or depute a competent subordinate to make
an inquiry, any action taken being recorded in the station diary.
Disposal
of body and
disinfection of
clothing, bedding,
etc.
7. If the officer making the inquiry is of opinion that the death
was due to bubonic plague, and finds that no other persons in the
house in which the death occurred are ill, he shall direct the relatives
or friends of the deceased to dispose of the body (if this has not al-
ready been done) and to disinfect the house, clothes and bedding of
the deceased, as laid down in Annexure I, reporting at the same time
the result of his inquiry in the manner provided in rule 10.
Procedure
where there is a
sick person in a
8. (i) If he also finds that, in a house in which a person has
dlied of bubonic plague, any person is ill with symptoms of the ¡
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