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(6) hospitals, appliances and staff for the care of patients ; and
(7) measures taken to ensure the breaking of bulk of consignments
of grain.
Expenditure on the first four items will be borne from provincial
funds. The cost of the fifth and sixth will be borne by municipal funds
in municipal areas and by local funds in rural areas. That of the seventh
will fall on Provincial funds if the measure's are undertaken by the
Collector under regulation 8 and on the municipal or local authority
concerned if they are carried out under regulation 10.
towers of
Collectors
to incur
expenditure
on plague.
21. Collectors are authorized to incur expenditure up to Rs. 5,000
in anticipation of the sanction of Government when prompt action is
necessary under regulation 7 or regulation 8 or when, in consequence of
an outbreak of plague, it becomes necessary urgently to provide hutting
materials for persons evacuating their houses, or to pay compensation
for damage to property. Any expenditure so incurred should be
reported immediately and, except as provided in this order, no expendi-
ture should be incurred from Provincial funds without previous sanction.
Where a local board or municipal council finds it necessary to
incur at short notice expenditure on the care and accommodation of the
sick or on rat destruction, which has not been foreseen or provided for
in its budget, it should take immediate steps to rearrange its budget so
that funds may be available.
Sanction
for the
employment
of plague
establish-
ments.
22. All appointments in connexion with plague require the sanction
of Government. In the case of additional police required for plague
duty the application for sanction should be forwarded, through the
Inspector-General of Police, to the Secretary to Government, Judicial
Department. In other cases applications should be forwarded to the
Secretary to Government, Local Self-Government (Public Health)
Department through the Director of Public Health. Sanctions for
establishments employed under this rule will remain in force to the end
of the following March or September, whichever is earlier, unless for
special reasons a different date is specified in the order in any particular
case. On the 1st of March and on the 1st of September each Collector
will submit in a single communication proposals for the retention of such
of the establishments as, in his opinion, should be retained in the ensuing
half-year, clearly explaining the necessity in each case. Such proposals
should be accompanied by three copies of a statement showing all
existing plague establishments in the form in Appendix C, two copies of
the statement being forwarded at the same time to the Accountant-
General. Special sanction should be obtained for all additional
establishments which it may be found necessary to employ in the course
of the half-year, but in the absence of special instructions to the
contrary all such sanctions will expire at the end of the half-year.
Collectors will also effect from time to time such reductions in establish-
ments as may be feasible and report the fact to the Director of
Public Health for information.
Allowances
to officers
on plague
duty.
23, The Secretary of State has sanctioned the grant of extraordinai'y
pension to the families of police men who die of plague contracted in the
execution of their duties in plague-stricken localities, provided such
duties entail imminent risk from plague.