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APP. IV, ] Regulations under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
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His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to prescribe the
following rules for the area comprised within the limits of the Karachi
Municipality:—
Abatement of
overcrowding«
I. (a) If it shall appear to the President of the Municipality that
any building used as a dwelling is so overcrowded as
to endanger the. health of the inmates thereof, he may,
of his own motion, by written order, require the owner
of the building, within a time, not exceeding seven
days, to be prescribed in the said order, to abate the
overcrowding thereof by reducing the number of lodgers,
tenants or other inmates of the said building.
(b) If the owner of the said building shall have sub-let the
same, the landlord of the lodgers, tenants or other
actual inmates of the same shall for the purpose of this
section be deemed to be the owner of the building.
(c) It shall be incumbent on every tenant, lodger or other
inmate of the building to vacate on being required by
the owner so to do in pursuance of any such requisition.
Payment of
compensation.
2. (a) Save such compensation, if any, as the President or any of
the officers deputed by him in this behalf may in his or
in their discretion allow, no person shall be entitled to
recover any compensation by way of damages or other-
wise for the destruction or disinfection of any article
removed or dealt with as provided in Rules heretofore
sanctioned or which may hereafter be sanctioned by the
Commissioner in Sind under the Epidemic Diseases Act.
Charge of pro-
perty.
(b) The owner of any moveable property in any building dealt
with under the powers conferred on the Municipality
shall be responsible for taking charge of such property,
at the time when any action is taken under such powers
or, in the case of an article requiring disinfection, so
soon as the same has been disinfected, and in default
of his so doing, the officer in charge of the operations
may cause such property to be placed wherever he may
think fit, and neither the owner nor any person interest-
ed therein shall have any claim for compensation,
damages or otherwise in respect of loss of or damage
to such property, however caused, during the removal
thereof or at any time thereafter.
Demolition of
buildings.
3, (a) If in the opinion of the President any building (not being
a hut or shed) which has been vacated, or which has
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been dealt with under the powers conferred on the Muni-
cipality, cannot be adapted to the sanitary require-
ments of a dwelling, or is otherwise permanently unfit
for human habitation, or if its existence is a source
of danger, the President may demolish the same or any
part thereof.
Valuation.
(b) Prior to any such building being demolished, the Presi-
dent shall cause the same, or such part thereof as he
may think necessary to demolish, to be surveyed and
its value at the time to be assessed by such person as
Government may, by name or by virtue of office,
appoint for that purpose, and shall by written notice
affixed on some conspicuous part of such building
intimate the date (not being less than seven days from
the date of such notice) and the hour at which the
building will be surveyed and assessed as aforesaid,
and the work of demolition shall not be commenced
until the building or portion thereof has been surveyed
and the value so assessed. The valuation of such
building by such officer shall be final and conclusive,
and the owner shall be entitled to receive the amount
thereof, which shall be provided out of the Municipal
fund, but he shall not be entitled to receive any further
or other sum by way of compensation.
Building
materials.
(c) The materials of any building or part of a building de-
molished as aforesaid shall be the property of the
Municipality, and shall be removed and disposed of,
or, if necessary, destroyed by the President.
Rule of assess-
ment.
(d) In assessing the value of any building, regard shall be had
only to the then actual market value of the structure,
and no allowance shall be made, nor shall any compen-
sation be paid, for compulsory demolition or otherwise.
Control of inter-
course.
The President, Karachi Municipality, is empowered to order
persons or classes of persons to leave a certain place for another or
prohibit leaving a given area, prohibit communication between certain
areas, prohibit entrance of persons within a prescribed area, make
regulations for inspection of travellers by land or water, and, if
necessary, their detention and segregation, and for the destruction
of suspected articles. All persons concerned shall be bound to obey
such orders, prohibitions and regulations.
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Regulations regarding the keeping of Pigs.*
No. 24,
Notification No. 1677—1154, dated the 26th March 1897.
His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to make the
following rule under Act III of 1897 for application within the limits
of the Municipality of Bandra :—
Pigs shall be kept out of buildings used for human habitations.
Pigs shall not be kept, excepting in enclosures fenced in or
otherwise secured, so that they cannot escape therefrom.
Any swine straying may be forthwith destroyed and the carcass
disposed of as the President or Secretary of the Municipality
shall direct, and no claim shall lie for compensation for any
swine so destroyed.
No person shall feed any animal or suffer or permit any animal
to be fed or to feed with or upon excrementitious matter, dung,
stable refuse or other filthy matter.
REGULATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF RAILWAY AND
OTHER TRAFFIC.
Rules for principal inspection stations.
No. 25.
Notification No. 723—211-P., dated the loth February 1897.
Memorandum by the Remembrancer of Legal Affairs, No. 187,
dated the 8th February 1897.
Submits, with remarks, rules framed under Act III of 1897 for
the inspection of passengers by railway travelling in trains from
Bombay.
RESOLUTION.—In accordance with the Dangerous Epidemic
Diseases Act III of 1897, His Excellency the Governor in Council is
pleased to make the following rules :—
Detention of
trains.
(i) Every train coming from the direction of Bombay to
any of the stations to which these rules may be declared by
Government to be applicable shall be stopped at such station
and shall not be taken further until the inspection provided by
these rules has been carried out, and until the guard in charge
of such train has obtained a certificate from the Chief Medical
Officer in charge of the inspecting staff to the effect that all
persons proceeding further by the said train, whether railway
servants or passengers are free from bubonic plague.
* These regulations were afterwards extended to the Municipalities of Thana and
Bassein.
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Platform
inspection of
passengers.
(2) Every such train shall be emptied for inspection of the
passengers in such manner as the Chief Medical Officer on duty
may direct, and all such facilities shall be afforded by the ser-
vants of the Railway Company as the Chief Medical Officer on
duty may deem to be necessary for the purpose of inspecting—
(a) persons who have come by such train, whether they
intend to proceed by it or not, and
(b) persons who intend to start from any of the said
stations and to travel by such train,
In particular the doors of all railway carriages shall be
locked at the station at which the train last stops before arrival
at the station appointed for the inspection of passengers under
these rules.
Appointment
of inspecting
officers.
(3) The Governor in Council may appoint any person or
persons, by name or by virtue of office, to be the inspecting
medical officer or officers for the purposes of these rules and may
cancel any such appointment.
Inspection and
segregation.
(4) Inspecting medical officers appointed under these rules
are empowered to examine ail persons arriving by or intending
to leave by the trains mentioned and to detain persons suffering
or suspected by them to be suffering from bubonic plague in
such places as may be appointed for the accommodation of such
persons respectively.
Duties of Police,
(5) The Police shall act under the orders given by the
Chief Medical Officer on duty under these rules with regard to
compelling persons to submit to such regulations as may be
made or approved by the said officer for the purpose of inspec-
tion and with regard to the detention and segregation of persons
suffering or suspected to be suffering from bubonic plague.
Penalty.
(6) Disobedience to any orders issued under the above
rules Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 will subject the offender to a prosecu-
tion under section 188, Indian Penal Code.
Kalyan and
Pal ghar.
2. For the present Kalyan on the G. I. P. Railway and Palghar
on the B., B. & C. I. Railway are prescribed as railway stations to
which the above rules are applicable.
Staff.
3. The Surgeon-General should be instructed to send 12 medical
subordinates and a commissioned medical officer to each of these
stations. The officers despatched by him shall be considered to be
inspecting officers under rule (3).
Expenditure.
4. The Collector of Thana should arrange for any contingent
expenditure that may be necessary. He may incur such expenditure
in anticipation of sanction. He has already been instructed to arrange
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for separate places for the detention of persons suffering from the
plague and of persons suspected to be suffering therefrom, and to
make provision for the accommodation of the medical staff to be
employed.
Duties or police
and railway
authorities.
5. The Police and the Railway authorities are requested to give
all possible assistance to the medical staff.
6. The inspection referred to in the above rules should commence
not later than the 12th instant.
No. 26,
Notification No. 751—249-P., dated the 11th February 1897.
Read Government Resolution No. 723—211-P., dated the 10th
February 1897.
Ahmedabad,
Bhusaval, Hotgi
and Londa.
RESOLUTION.—In addition to Kalyan and Palghar the following
railway stations are prescribed as those to which the rules in para-
graph 1 of Resolution No. 723—211-P., dated the 10th instant, are
applicable :—
Ahmedabad.
Bhusaval.
Hotgi.
Londa.
Inspecting Me-
dical Officers.
2. The inspecting medical officers for the purposes of the afore-
said rules shall be those whom the Surgeon-General from time to
time appoints for the duty. The Surgeon-General should send Gov-
ernment from time to time a nominal list of such officers and keep
Government informed of all transfers and other changes in the staff
of such officers.
Provision of
accommodation.
3. Arrangements have already been made for inspection at Kal-
yan and Palghar. They should be promptly made for inspection
at the other railway stations mentioned in paragraph 1 above.
These arrangements should include a hospital for bubonic plague
patients, separate accommodation for persons suspected to be suffer-
ing from bubonic plague, and accommodation for the medical staff.
The Collectors of the districts concerned should make these arrange-
ments promptly, incurring the necessary expenditure which may in
the first instance be debited to Government.
Detention of
persons suffering
or suspected to
be suffering from
Plague.
4. As an additional rule under the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897,
the Governor in Council is pleased to prescribe that—"Persons
suffering or suspected to be suffering from bubonic plague found at
railway stations shall not be permitted to travel by rail, or to return
to their homes, or to depart elsewhere, but must be taken to the hos-
pital or a place of detention provided for the purposes of the rules, "
No. 27.
Notification No. 1123—608-P., dated the 2nd March 1897.
Dhond an
Rajevadi,
RESOLUTION.—Dhond and Rajevadi are hereby added to the
railway stations mentioned in paragraph 2 of Government Resolution
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No, 723—211-P. of the 10th February 1897, and in paragraph 1 of
Government Resolution No. 751—249-?. of the nth idem.
Rules for Minor Inspection Stations.
No. 28.
Notification No. 883—351-P., dated the I7th February 1897.
The following rules have been prescribed by His Excellency the
Governor in Council in accordance with section 2 (2) (a) and (b} of
the Epidemic Diseases Act. 1897:—
Inspection at
other railway
stations and at
landing places.
1. At any railway station within the Presidency of Bombay*
other than the stations to which the rules published in Government
Notifications Nos. 723—211-P., and 257-P., dated respectively, the
10th and 11th February 1897, and No. 884—352-P. of this date are
applicable, or at any bunder or landing-place within the said Presi-
dency and outside the limits of the Port of Bombay at which a
medical officer or medical officers may be appointed by the Govern-
ment or the local authority, or with the sanction of the local authority,
by a railway or shipping company, as the case may be, for the purpose
of inspection under these rules, such officer or officers shall be em-
powered to examine—
Examination of
persons arriving
or departing by
rail or vessel.
(a) persons, whether passengers, railway servants or members
of a boat's crew, who alight or disembark at such place
from a train or boat or vessel coming from the direction
of Bombay, whether they intend to proceed by such train
boat or vessel or not, and
(b) persons who intend to start from any of the said places
and to travel by such train, boat or vessel.
All such persons shall be bound to submit to such inspection as
the medical officer on duty under these rules may deem neces-
sary.
Local authority.
2. For the purpose of these rules " local authority" means the
District Magistrate and any one empowered by him in this behalf,
and within Municipal Districts includes the Municipality.
Inspecting'medi-
cal officers.
3. All inspecting medical officers appointed at such places as
aforesaid before the passing of these rules shall be deemed to have
been appointed under these rules, subject to the approval of the Dis-
trict Magistrate or of any one empowered by him in this behalf.
Segregation of
suspected cases.
4. All inspecting medical officers appointed under these rules
are empowered to detain persons suffering from, or suspected by
them to be suffering from, the dangerous disease known as bubonic
* In Notification No. 884—352-P., dated the 17th February 1897, the Government of
Bombay issued similar rules for Sind, outside the limits of the Port of Karachi.
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plague, in such places as may be appointed for the accommodation of
such persons, respectively.
Duties of Police,
5. The Police shall act under the orders given by the medical
officer on duty under these rules with regard to compelling persons
to submit to such regulations as may be made or approved by the
said officer for the purpose of inspection and with regard to the de-
tention and segregation of persons suffering or suspected to be suffer-
ing from bubonic plague.
Penalty.
6. Disobedience to any orders issued under the above rules 1, 4
and 5 will subject the offender to a prosecution under section 188,
Indian Penal Code.
No. 29,
Resolution No. 991—460-P., dated the 23rd February 1897.
RESOLUTION.—In continuation of Government Notification No.
884—352-P., dated 17th February 1897, His Excellency the Governor
in Council is pleased to prescribe the following rule under the Epide-
mic Diseases Act, 1897:—
Railway passen-
gers to
give
names and ad-
dresses.
" Railway station masters shall require all passengers coming
from infected stations to give ' names and addresses, business which
has brought them to the station and intentions regarding future
movements.' For the present the following shall be considered to be
infected stations, viz., all stations in the Island of Bombay and Sal-
sette, Kalyan, Bassein, Bulsar, Rander, Kirkee, Poona, and Ghorepuri.
A station master shall forward a copy of his list containing the above
information every clay to the nearest Mamlatdar, who shall forthwith
instruct the headman of the town or village or the Secretary of the
Municipality to watch such person and send a report if he is ill or
departs within ten days."
No. 30.
No. 723—211-P., dated loth
February 1897.
No. 2S7-P., dated nth February
1897.
No. 882—350-P., dated i;th Feb-
ruary 1897.
Resolution No. 996-—471-P., dated the 24th February 1897.
RESOLUTION.—The following is sanc-
tioned as an addition to the rules
sanctioned in the Government Resolu-
tions quoted in the margin :—•
Treatment of
Europeans at
Palghar and Kal-
yan.
" Europeans or Natives of a class who cannot in the opinion of the
Chief Medical Officer be properly accommodated at Palghar or Kalyan
shall, if suffering or suspected to be suffering from plague, be sent
back to Bombay by train and shall, if Europeans, be sent to the St.
George's Hospital, and if Natives to the Plague Hospital at Parel or
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any other hospital that may be found more convenient. The author-
ities at the hospitals should be prepared on receipt of an urgent tele-
gram to convey patients from the railway stations (e.g., Victoria
Terminus, or Parel or Marine Lines) to the hospitals."
Rides for Sind.
Notification No. 1093—563-P,, dated the 27th February 1897.
No. 31,
In exercise of the powers conferred by the Notification of the
Government of India, No. 302, dated 4th February 1897, His Excel-
lency the Governor in Council being satisfied that Sind is visited by
an outbreak of a dangerous epidemic disease, namely, bubonic plague,
and that the ordinary provisions of the law are insufficient for the
purpose of preventing such outbreak, is pleased to prescribe the
following regulations for the inspection of persons travelling by
railway and the segregation of persons affected or suspected of being
infected with bubonic plague and for other matters under sub-section
(2) (b) of section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 :—
Inspection
stations.
I. All persons travelling by railway, whether passengers or
railway servants, from the direction of Karachi or any other place
that may hereafter be declared by the Commissioner in Sind to be
visited with bubonic plague shall be medically inspected at the
Karachi City Station.
Do. Cantonment do,
Dadu
do.
Hyderabad do.
railway stations marginally noted, and at
such other railway stations as the Commis-
sioner in Sind may from time to time
prescribe or may substitute for any station
already prescribed.
Staff.
2. The medical inspection shall be made by a commissioned
medical officer appointed by the Principal Medical Officer, Sind Dis-
trict, under the orders of the Commissioner in Sind either expressly
for this purpose or in addition to other duties. If such medical officer
is at any time unavoidably prevented from discharging his duties
under these regulations, he may by order in writing temporarily
depute a medical subordinate or another commissioned medical
officer, informing the Principal Medical Officer immediately. The
officers at present appointed are :—
At Karachi City Station
i
,
\ Surgeon-Lieutenant Rainier, I.M.a,
Do.
Cantonment Station )
At Dadu
At Hyderabad
Surgeon.Lieulenant Gwyther, I.M.S.
The Civil Surgeon.
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3. The medical inspection shall be conducted at each railway
station in the following manner :—
Karachi City Station.
(a) Before commencing the inspection, the medical officer shall
satisfy himself that no persons are concealed in the train, that the
carriages are locked on both sides, that the platform is clear, and
that there is no possibility of any access to the train by any non-in-
spected person. It shall be the duty of the station master and of the
Police to carry out these provisions to the satisfaction of the medical
officer.
(b) If found convenient, intending passengers may be arranged
on the platform for inspection and passed one by one into the carri-
ages, or may be inspected one by one as they pass to the platform
through the gate where they are required to show their tickets. In
the latter case, they shall at once take their seats in the carriages.
As soon as the inspection is finished, the train, all carriages being
locked on both sides, will proceed to the-Cantonment Station accom-
panied by the medical officer.
Karachi Cantonment Station.
(a) Before arrival of the train at the Karachi Cantonment Station,
the side away from the platform should be guarded by Police to pre-
vent access to the train on that side. All intending passengers should
be drawn up on the platform, arranged by families or otherwise as
may be most convenient for passing persons after inspection into the
carriages without possibility of any non-inspected person eluding
inspection.
(b) As soon as the inspection is finished, the doors may be un-
locked on both sides under proper precautions. After the doors have
been unlocked, no person shall enter the train, and the train shall at
once leave the station. The doors shall not be unlocked till the
station master has satisfied himself that every person intending to
travel has taken his seat (except the guards in charge of the train)
that the train can start at once, and that the police on both sides of
the train have cleared away all by-standers. The medical officer will
see that these regulations are strictly observed.
Dad u Station.
(a) All persons intending to travel by the up-train from Karachi
will remain outside the platform till the inspection of persons arriving
by the train is completed. It shall be the duty of the station master
to see that the platform is kept clear of all persons, except those
actually on duty or who may be permitted by the medical officer to