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9. Every householder and every medical practitioner shall at once
report to the nearest local authority any case of plague or any case of
fever with glandular swellings or any unusual mortality among rats
which may come to his notice.
10. The chairman of any municipal council or union panchayat, or
the headman of any village in which there is no panchayat, may prevent
any person suspected of coming from an infected place from entering
the town or village for a period not exceeding two days unless his
clothing and personal effects have been thoroughly exposed to the direct
rays "of the sun for not less than six hoars. He may also prevent any
consignment of grain from entering the town or village until the bags
have been removed from the carts and every aide of each bag has been
exposed to the direct rays of the sun for not less than two hours.
11. (1) In the absence of a written contract to the contrary, every
inspector, maistri, peon, watchman, coolie, scavenger or other menial,
servant employed to do duty in connexion with plague, shall be entitled
to one month's notice before discharge, or to one month's wages in lieu
ther.eof, unless he is discharged for miscond act or was engaged for a
specified term and is discharged at the end of it. Similarly, every
supplier of coolies shall be entitled to one month's notice before his
coolies are discharged.
(2) No such inspector, maistri, peon, watchman, coolie, scavengei
or other menial servant shall, in the absence of a written contract
'authorizing him to do so, and without reasonable cause, resign his
employment or absent himself from his duties without giving one
month's notice or shall neglect or refase to perform any of his duties.
In like manner, no supplier of coolies or other menial servants shall
withdraw his coolies or servants without giving one month's notice.
12. When in consequence of the exercise of the powers conferred by
or under these regulations any property is damaged or destroyed, the
Collector shall pay to the owner by way of compensation' such sum as
he may consider sufficient to cover the cost of repairing the damage or
replacing the property destroyed.
Notes.—(1) 'the Plague Regulations being orders formally made and issued by
Government under the Epidemic Diseases Act, no sanction is required us a condition
precedent to prosecution, for disobeying them (Judgment oí the High Courb in Crimina!
Appeal JMo. 501 of 1899).
(2) By Uormnaml Order No. 687, dated 18th November 1898, all ranks in tbs
Madras Coraa.and have been directed to obey the Pingue Regulations, and any infringem
ent of them is punishable as a military oft'ence. Military pensioners have been warned
(Superintendent's Circular No. II, dated 14th December 1898), that any disobedience or
wilful neglect of the régula lions or obstruction offered to any official on plague duty
will be treated as a hi each of the good conduct lequired by Government as a condition of
the continuation of their pensions, and that any pensioner being guilty thereof will be
liable to have his pension stopped forthwith and the same reduced or permanently
withdrawn.
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STANDING ORDERS.
The following are departmental instructions for the guidance oí
officers dealing with plague :—
General
control of
plague
measures.
The general control of all measures connected with plague is vested
in the Collector of the district, unless the Government in any case other-
wise direct ; and all officers of Government, of local boards and of
municipalities, and all plague officers mast obey and carry out the