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APP. IV. ] Regulations under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
Register of
inspection visits.
74. A Medical Inspector shall keep a register showing dates of
visits (with time of arrival and departure) to each station, a copy of
which shall be forwarded weekly to the Sanitary Commissioner.
Telegraphic
information oí
cases to the
Inspector.
75. The Medical Inspector will receive from all subordinates and
from the railway authorities telegraphic information of the occurrence
of a case, or suspected case, of bubonic plague, or of the discovery of a
dead body in the train or on railway premises.
Medical Inspec-
tors directly sub»
ordinate to Sani-
tary Commis-
sioner.
76. The Medical Inspectors will be directly subordinate to the
Sanitary Commissioner. They should communicate freely and with-
out delay with Civil Surgeons on all points requiring action, and
should report to them any defects in the arrangements or shortcom-
ings on the part of subordinates, forwarding at the same time a copy
of the report to the Sanitary Commissioner for information.
(v) General Rules.
Certificates of
cause of illness
and deaths.
77. No certificates as to the nature of an illness or the cause of
a death shall be given in any case dealt with under these rules by
any medical officer of lower rank than Assistant Surgeon.
Treatment of
dead bodies
found in or near
railway stations.
78. The railway police shall arrange for the immediate removal
on a charpoy of any dead body found at, or in the vicinity of, a railway
station, and for its detention, together with those accompanying
it, until it has been inspected by a Medical Officer.
Temporary dis-
posal of body.
79. At stations where a temporary hospital has been erected,
the body shall be taken to the hospital : at other places, it shall be
placed in an isolated place at a suitable distance from the station,
The matter shall be immediately reported by the railway police to the
District Magistrate and Civil Surgeon for orders.
Civil Surgeon
to proceed to
the spot.
80. On receipt of information, the Civil Surgeon (or officer in
charge of his duties) shall (unless the case occurs at Manikpur, '
Jhansi, Saharanpur or Ghaziabad where special Medical Officers are.
posted) at once proceed to the spot, the Magistrate deputing a res-
ponsible official to accompany him and to carry out his directions.
Disposal of
plague corpses.
81. In cases where death from plague is indicated, the Civil
Surgeon will arrange for the immediate cremation or burial of the corpse
in the manner prescribed in rule 65 and for the isolation, if necessary,
of those accompanying it, as provided in rule 61, together with such
other measures as may be considered necessary by him.
Procedure at
places where
there is no Civil-
Surgeon.
Notification
No. 63—XVI
—404-B.,
dated the
19th Feb-
ruary 1897.
81-A. Rules 78—81 apply to places where a Civil Surgeon is sta-
tioned. At other places, in the case of bodies not claimed by friends, the
railway police will be guided by paragraph 344 of the Police Regulations
and Orders, and by the instructions in Annexure I : if there are friends
accompanying the body, they shall, under the direction of the railway
police, dispose of the corpse in the manner indicated in Annexure I. The