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Report of
plague oases
to "be sent "by
Collectors to
Government
and Director
Public.
Health.
13. All attacks and deaths should be reported daily by the Collector
to the Director of Public Health in the form prescribed in G.O.
No. 485 P., dated 10th March 1904. These reports.may be sent by
post, unless, owing to a breach on a railway or any other cause, they
are not likely to be received within 48 hours, when they should be
telegraphed. Reports should be sent to the Government and the Direc-
tor of Public Health of—
(a) the first indigenous case occurring in a district previously free
from plague,
(b) the first three indigenous cases occurring in a town of 10,000
inhabitants or more, and
(c) the first three indigenous cases occurring in any port, by post
in the first two cases, and by telegram in the last case.
Collectors should also send telegraphic reports to the medical officers
of the Ceylon Government stationed at Tuticorin and Mandapam, of the
first indigenous case occurring in a district previously free from plague.
The cost of these telegrams will be debited to the Ceylon Government
by the Accountant-General. Every Collector declaring any place or
area in his district to be infected with plague should inform the Govern-
ment forthwith of the fact that he has done, so in order that the place
or area may be included in the list of infected areas published in the
Fort St. George Gazette.
Monthly
report on
plague to be
sent by
Collectors
to the
Director of
Public
Health.
14. The Collector of every district affected with indigenous plague
should forward to Government through the Director of Public Health
not later than the 15th of every month succeeding a quarter a consoli-
dated report for the previous quarter for the whole district. These
quarterly narratives should be prepared by the presidents of district
boards and chairmen of municipal councils and on the lines laid down in
paragraphs 4 to 9 of G.O. No. 897-A. P.H., dated 24th. June 1922,, and
should be consolidated by the Collector in consultation with the Presi-
dent of the District Board and the District Health Officer or, if there is
no such officer, the District Medical Officer. They should summarise
clearly for each municipality and taluk within the district the number
of deaths from plague in each month of the quarter and the particulars
enumerated in paragraph 9 of that Government Order and paragraphs
42-44 of the Memorandum of the Director of Public Health appended
to that Government Order. The reports for their own areas should be
transmitted by the chairmen of municipal councils concerned to the
Collector not later than the 7th of the month following the close of the
quarter reported on. Copies should be sent simultaneously to the District
Health Officer and the District Medical Officer and the President of
the District Board.
Communica-
tion of in-
formation
regarding
plague cásea
to adjoining
district and
- Native
States.
15. Collectors of infected districts should send weekly reports of
plague to the Collectors and District Health Officers of adjoining districts
in the form prescribed by G.O. No. 83 P., dated 16th January 1904.
Immediate report should however be sent of any case of plague or
suspected plague that may occur in any new place within their districts.
The Collectors of Nellore, North Arcot, Chittoor, South Arcot and
Chinglepnt should send a copy of the weekly plague report to the
President of the Madras Corporation, and should also report to him by
telegram immediately on its occurrence any case of plague or suspected
plague that may occur in any new place within their districts,