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remain. The medical officer shall see that the platform is clear and
properly guarded, and that police are stationed to prevent any per-
sons leaving the train on the side away from the platform.
(b) On arrival of the train at Dadu, all the carnages shall be
immediately locked on the side away from the platform. At the station
immediately preceding Dadu the guard of the train shall lock all
carriages on the side that will be next the platform on arrival at
Dadu.
(c) On arrival of the train, each carriage separately or two at a
time will be unlocked. The occupants of the carriage shall alight on
the platform and be there inspected by the medical officer. Those
who do not wish to proceed farther will after inspection be allowed to
depart. Those who wish to proceed will re-enter the carriage. As
the inspection of each carnage is completed, the empty carnage shall
be searched to ascertain that no person is concealed in it, the inspect-
ed persons shall reseat themselves, and the doors be relocked. When
all the persons arriving in the trains have been thus inspected and
reseated, the medical officer shall inspect the local passengers from
Dadu intending to proceed by the train. He may either direct that
the passengers be drawn up on the empty platform for inspection or
inspect them as they show their tickets. In either case after inspec-
tion the inspected persons shall forthwith enter the carriage which is
unlocked for the purpose.
(d) As soon as the inspection is completed, the doors of the
train shall be unlocked on both sides under the same precautions as
are prescribed for Karachi Cantonment Station.
Hyderabad Station.
The arrangements shall be the same as at Dadu.
N.B.—No train shall leave any of the above stations without a certificate to be
given by the medical officer to the guard in the form annexed, and to be shown by
the guard when so required.
No passenger
to enter or
remain in train
without exami-
nation.
4. At the prescribed platform inspecting stations no passenger
shall enter a train or remain in a train without inspection. The in-
spection of females shall be conducted with due regard to custom,
Females.
5. After inspection of any person, the medical officer shall have
power to and shall detain any person suffering from or suspected to
Detenton of
suspected cases. be suffering from or infected by bubonic plague or any person whom
the medical officer has reason to believe may have contracted the
disease or be likely to spread infection and to keep such persons under
observation in temporary accommodation provided for the purpose for
so long as he may deem necessary. The medical officer shall keep a
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register of all persons detained and released or have died, with full
particulars.
Accommodation
and treatment of
person detained.
6. It shall be the duty of the medical officer, in the absence of
other arrangements, to attend on any person so detained and accept-
ing his services, and to see that the accommodation provided is suit-
able and sufficient, and that, if necessary, provisions, water and
firewood are supplied, and immediately to bring to notice of the
Principal Medical Officer or the Collector of the District any defect in
the arrangements.
Person segre-
gated not to
depart without
permission.
7. No person thus segregated shall quit the place set apart with-
out permission of the medical officer. It shall be the duty of the
police to prevent any person leaving till permission is given.
Disinfection or
destruction of
clothing, bed-
ding, etc.
8. The medical officer shall have power to seize and disinfect or
burn all clothing, bedding or other articles, which may, in his opinion,
be infected, and shall value and pay compensation on the spot. A
permanent advance of Rs. 100 shall be provided to each officer by the
Collector of the District. The medical officer shall keep accounts and
submit bills and vouchers in such way as the Collector may require.
The medical officer may, after allowing any person to quit the segre-
gated area, furnish a ticket to such person to his house if such person
has not the means of buying a ticket. Provided that the railway will
be bound to refund to the medical officer the excess value of the ticket
of all persons detained.
Separate accom-
modation for the
sick and healthy.
Friends and re-
latives permitted
to stay with
patient. Com-
fort of patient.
g. The medical officer will see that there is separate accbmmo-
dation for the sick and for the healthy persons detained, or who may
elect to stay with a person who is detained. Any friend or relative
may be permitted to stay with a person detained, and one or two
persons shall be permitted to attend on any sick person. Every
reasonable attention shall be paid to the comfort of persons detained,
and complaints that he cannot meet shall be forwarded by the medical
officer to the Collector of the District, with his remarks as to whether
the complaint is reasonable or otherwise.
Minor inspec-
tions.
10. Nothing in the above regulations shall affect the inspection
of passengers entering or alighting from a train at other stations on
the line by such persons as the Principal Medical Officer under in-
structions from the Commissioner in Sind has appointed or may
appoint.
Form of a Certificate to be furnished by the Inspecting Medical
Officer to the Guard of the Train.
I hereby certify that I have examined all the passengers and
railway servants proceeding by the
Train leaving.
.,
Station, North-West Railway, at
hours
minutes, and
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that so far as I could ascertain they are free from suspicion of bubonic
plague, and the Regulations for inspection were duly observed.
Station
Date
,
Inspecting Medical Officer.
No. 32.
Inspection of up trains in and near Bombay.
Notification No. 2914—2194-P., dated the 28th May 1897.
The following rules are issued under Act III of 1897 :—
1. The Bombay Plague Committee are hereby empowered to
appoint medical men as plague authorities at railway stations in the
Island of Bombay and the Thana District for the purposes of these
rules. Such plague authorities shall have power to inspect railway
passengers, intending railway passengers and other persons found in
railway trains or at the railway stations to which these rules are or
may hereafter be applied, and to detain and send to hospitals or
other places appointed for the purpose persons found or believed to
be suffering from plague.
2. These rules are hereby made applicable to the railway stations
of Thana, Kurla and Sion on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway,
and Santa Cruz and Bandra on the Bombay, Baroda and Central
India Railway.
3. The medical staff appointed by Government at the stations of
Kalyan and Palghar for the purposes of the inspection referred to in
Government Resolution No. 723—211-P., dated 10th February 1897,
shall be considered plague authorities for the purposes of these rules.
4. On the Great Indian Peninsula Railway persons travelling by
up through trains shall be medically inspected at Kalyan and no fur-
ther medical inspection of such trains will be requisite ; but no pas-
sengers shall be allowed to enter such trains at any stations between
the stations of Kalyan and Kurla except at Thana. All local up
trains shall be emptied and their passengers medically inspected at
Sion.
5. On the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway up trains
starting from stations north of Bandra shall be stopped for medical
inspections of their passengers at Bandra, except in the case of the
up mail train, the passengers by which shall be inspected at Palghar.
No persons shall be allowed to book at Bandra Station by up trains
until they have been medically inspected.
6. Season ticket-holders and free pass-holders will ordinarily be
excused from inspection ; but the plague authorities may inspect
them in any cases in which they consider it desirable to do so,
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7. The plague authorities under these rules shall be placed
under the immediate orders of Surgeon-Captain Jennings, who is au-
thorized to make all necessary arrangements and to commence in-
spection under these rules as soon as his arrangements are completed
at the above mentioned places.
No. 33. Regulations issued by the Government of Madras.
Notification, dated Fort St. George, the 5th February 1897.
Regulations for the City of Madras.
Preamble.
Whereas certain parts of India are visited by, and the Presidency I
of Madras is threatened with, an outbreak of a dangerous epidemic
disease known as bubonic plague, and whereas the ordinary provisions
of law in force in the Presidency are insufficient for the purpose of
preventing the outbreak or spread of the disease, His Excellency
the Governor of Fort St. George in Council, in exercise of the powers
delegated to him under section 2, sub-section (3), of the Epidemic
Diseases Act, 1897, by the Governor-General in Council [Notifica-
tion of the Government of India, Home Department, No. 302 (Sanitary),
dated the 4th February 1897], is pleased to prescribe under the
said Epidemic Diseases Act the following temporary regulations
to be observed in the City of Madras :
1. These regulations shall come into force at once and shall re-
main in operation until such time as they shall be withdrawn by a noti-
fication in the Fort George Gazette.
Report of cases
by house-holders.
2. Every house-holder who becomes cognizant of any case of
the bubonic plague or of fever with glandular swellings in his house
or in any other private dwelling within the municipal limits of the
City of Madras shall be bound to give information of the same to the
Health Officer or a Sanitary Inspector of the Municipality with the
least practicable delay.
Entry and abate-
ment of nui-
sances.
3. The President of the Municipal Commission or any officer
generally or specially authorised by him in writing in this behalf
may, when he considers necessary, enter upon any premises at any
time during daylight and summarily execute any work required
under, or summarily abate any of the nuisances described or in-
dicated in, sections 313, 314, 321, 322, 326 or 327 of the City of
Madras Municipal Act, 1884.
Abatement of
overcrowding,
4. When in the opinion of the Health Officer of the Municipality
and of a medical officer deputed by the Surgeon-General or, in the
absence of any such officer, of the Surgeon of the district, any build-
ing or place is so overcrowded as to make the inmates or occupants
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thereof specially liable to an attack of the bubonic plague, the Presi-
dent or any officer generally or specially authorized by him in writing
in this behalf may, by notice posted on some conspicuous part of the
building or place, require the owner or occupier, if actually residing
in the building or place, or the tenants or the actual inmates
thereof, to abate as prescribed in the notice the overcrowding with-
in twenty-four hours by reducing the number of lodgers, tenants or
inmates of the said building or place; and in default of compliance
with the requisition in the said notice may summarily eject all the in-
mates or occupants, or reduce the number of inmates or occupants
in such manner and to such extent as may appear necessary and the
owner or the tenants or the inmates of such building or place shall
not be entitled to claim any compensation on account of such ejec-
tion.
Evacuation,
cleansing and
disinfection of in-
fected buildings.
5. When any building or place has, in the opinion of the Health
Officer of the Municipality, been so infected with the plague as to
render its further occupation a source of danger to the inmates,
tenants or occupants thereof, the President or any officer generally
or specially authorized by him in writing in this behalf may summarily
cause such building or place to be vacated and thoroughly cleansed
and disinfected ; and the building or place shall not be re-occupied
until in the opinion of the Health Officer it is safe to be re-occupied ;
and the owner or occupier or the tenants or the inmates thereof shall
not be entitled to claim any compensation on account of anything
done under this regulation.
Destruction
of
huts and sheds.
6. If in the opinion of the Health Officer and oí a medical officer
deputed by the Surgeon-General or, in the absence of any such
officer, of the Surgeon of the district, the destruction of any hut or
shed is necessary to prevent the spread of the plague, the President
or any officer generally or specially authorized by him in writing
in this behalf may summarily take measures for the destruction
of such hut or shed and of the materials of which it is constructed ;
Payment
of
compensation,
and the President may, in his discretion, give compensation at the
expense of the Municipal Fund constituted under Madras Act I oí
1884 for any loss or damage caused by reason of such destuction.
Rags and used
gunny bags.
7. The President may, in his discretion, disinfect or destroy any
collection of rags in rag-pickers' houses and rag stores, or of second-
hand gunny bags imported from any part of India infected by the
plague, and no person shall be entitled to claim compensation for
any loss or damage sustained by him by reason of the disinfection or
destruction of any such articles under the powers conferred by this
regulation.
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Establishment
and maintenance
of plague hos-
pitals.
8. The Municipal Commissioners shall provide and maintain in
such localities, whether within or without Municipal limits, as in the
opinion of the Health Officer of the Municipality may be proper for the I
purpose, suitable and sufficient accommodation as approved by the
Health Officer and by a medical officer, deputed by the Surgeon-
General or, in the absence of any such officer, by the Surgeon of the
district, for the isolation and treatment of persons suffering from or
suspected to be suffering from the plague and for their detention
until they shall be certified to be free from infection. In the places
so provided the Municipal Commissioners shall furnish such hospital
establishments, equipment and supplies as the Health Officer may
require and shall also make arrangements for feeding persons detain-
ed under any of the regulations now prescribed, on payment by
them of the cost ; but in the case of indigent persons the Commis-
sioners shall supply them with food free of charge ; provided that
any person so detained may cater for himself subject to such rules
and conditions as the Health Officer may prescribe. The Municipal
Commissioners shall also in like manner and subject to like approval
provide accommodation for persons who may be required to vacate
any building or ground under the preceding regulations Nos. 4
and 5 and who may be unable to procure necessary accommodation
for themselves.
Occupation of
buildings for
plague hospitals.
9. Any building or place, whether within or without Municipal
limits, which is in the opinion of the Health Officer and of a medical
officer deputed by the Surgeon-General or, in the absence of any such
officer, of the Surgeon of the district suitable and required for the
purpose of the accommodation to be provided under regulation 8 may
be entered upon and occupied by the Municipal Commissioners (if tin-
tenanted without any notice whatsoever and if tenanted after twenty-
four hours' notice in writing conspicuously posted on such building or
place) and used for the purposes of the accommodation under regula-
tion 8 as aforesaid ; and the owner or the lessee of such building or
place shall not be entitled to claim from the Municipal Commissioners
anything beyond a reasonable rent for the period during which the
building or place may remain in their occupation : provided always the
Municipal Commissioners shall be bound at their own cost to cleanse
and disinfect the said building or place and, if a building, to whiter
wash it both internally and externally, before vacating it.
Conveyance
of
plague patients.
10. The Municipal Commissioners shall provide suitable con-
veyances for the free carriage of persons suffering or suspected to
be suffering from or infected by the plague and for the transport of
any clothing, bedding or other articles which may have been exposed
to infection,
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Segregation of
plague patients
in hospital, in
their own houses
or in some other
suitable place.
11. When in any building or place there is a person suffering or
suspected to be suffering from the bubonic plague, the President
or any officer generally or specially authorized by him in writing
in this behalf may enter and either—
(a) remove him to one of the places of accommodation provid-
ed under regulation 8 and in such place or in some other
place so provided to which, at the discretion of the
• Health Officer, he may from time to time be removed
there detain and treat him until he shall be certified
by the medical officer in charge of the place to be free
from infection, or
(b) take measures for segregating and isolating the said per-
son in his own house or in some other suitable place, if
in the opinion of the Health Officer the said person can
be there treated with no greater risk of spreading the
infection than would arise if he were removed to a
place provided under regulation 8.
Examination oE
railway travel-
lers at Perambur
and segregation
of plague cases.
12. At or near the railway station of Perambur any medical offi-
cer appointed either generally or specially by the President of the
Municipality in this behalf may detain any train and may require
any person travelling therein to alight and submit himself to medical
examination as the medical officer may direct, either on the Railway
premises or in some other suitable place which the President shall,
if necessary, provide at the expense of the Municipal Fund; and if
the said person is found to be suffering from or is suspected to be
suffering from the bubonic plague, the medical officer may deal with
him under the preceding regulation No. 11.
Ascertaining
particulars re-
garding trave-
lers.
Any such medical officer may also demand of any person so
travelling his name, his usual abode and particulars of the places in
which he has resided or which he has visited during the preceding
fifteen days, and also the address to which he is about to proceed
and any other particulars which the medical officer may think fit in
view of satisfying himself as to the likelihood of the said person's
spreading the infection of the plague. A person so interrogated
shall be bound to answer truly to the best of his knowledge and
belief all such questions and enquiries.
Detention of
persons from in
fected districts
without fixed
place of resi-
dence.
If any such person is found to have within the preceding ten
days been within a part of India believed by such medical officer
to be infected by the plague and is unable to satisfy such officer
that he is proceeding to any fixed place of residence, such officer
may remove him or cause him to be removed to a place provided
under regulation 8, and may there cause him to be detained for ten
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days when, if he is certified free from the infection of the plague, he
shall be permitted to depart therefrom.
Penalty.
13. Any person disobeying or contravening any of the foregoing
regulations shall be deemed to have committed an offence punishable
under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code and shall be liable on
conviction to be punished with imprisonment of either description
for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
No. 34. Regulations for District Municipalities and Towns and
Villagers.
Preamble.
Whereas certain parts of India are visited by, and the Presi-
dency of Madras is threatened with, an outbreak of a dangerous
epidemic disease known as bubonic plague, and whereas the ordinary
provisions of the law in force in the Presidency are insufficient for
the purpose of preventing the outbreak or spread of the disease,
His Excellency the Governor of Fort St. George in Council, in exer-
cise of the powers delegated to him under section 2, sub-section (3)
of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, by the Governor-General in
Council [Notification of the Government of India, Home Department,
No. 302 (Sanitary), dated 4th February 1897], is pleased to pres-
cribe, under the said Epidemic Diseases Act, the following tem-
porary regulations to be observed in the District Municipalities
constituted under the District Municipalities Act, 1894, and in other
towns and villages in the Presidency :
Date from
which regula-
tions take effect.
Except Regulations Nos. 1, 8, 10, 11 and 13 which shall come
into force at once, the following regulations shall take effect in any
municipality, town or village from date on which the District Col-
lector may apply the same, by notification in the district gazette,
and to the extent to which he may determine :
Report of
cases by house-
holders and
medical practi-
tioners.
I. In every District Municipality and every town or village,
every house-holder and every medical practitioner practising therein
who becomes cognisant of any case of the bubonic plague or of fever
with glandular swellings in his house or in any other private dwell-
ing within the limits of the Municipality, town or village, shall be
bound to give information of the same with the least practicable
delay, in the municipality to the Chairman of the Council and the
medical officer in charge of the Municipal dispensary or hospital,
and in a town or village not being a municipality to the officer in
charge of the nearest police station who shall report at once to the
Magistrate in charge of the division. The Chairman or Magistrate,