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[Appendix I—Rat-Plague.
with plague should be carefully examined, and any rats found
should be destroyed and their bodies burnt. Infection once
brought into a granary spreads rapidly among the healthy
rats, and thence in time to human beings living in the
neighbourhood. Collectors, presidents of district boards,
chairmen of municipal councils, should therefore take special
precautions to prevent infection from this source. Arrange-
ments should be made for the constant inspection of granaries
and grain bazaars and care should be taken to keep them
clean and disinfected and to have the rats destroyed. In
inspecting these granaries particular inquiries should be made
whether any dead or sick rats have been observed. Rats sick
with the plague seem careless in the presence of men and run
about in a dazed way with a peculiar limping gait in the hind
legs owing- to painful glands in the groin. The port and sea
customs authorities should be instructed to see that no rats
are lauded with goods imported by sea into this presidency,
and that rats found in ships are as far as possible destroyed.
Bandicoots, mice and other rodents are also liable to become
infected with plague and should therefore be destroyed,
34, It has been ruled that ordinarily the destruction of
rats should be confined to—
(a) infected places and the surrounding area within
a radius of ten miles round it ;
(b) landing places and railway goods-sheds, where rats
from infected places are likely to be imported with goods
brought by sea or railway.
In the case of (a) rewards may be necessary but the
maximum rate should not exceed three pies. In other cases,
the port or railway authorities are expected to do all that is
required without the reward system.
35. The charges incurred in the destruction of rats should
be debited to local or municipal funds according to the area
within which such charges are incurred,
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APPENDIX II-B.
GENERAL PASS.
[Seo Rule 83 on page 30.]
(To be issued for daily or frequent journeys by road or boat from an
infected area.)
No.
District.
Station of issue.
Name of person.
Father's name.
Caste.
Age.
Ordinary residence.
Journey covered by this pass.
This pass protects the person named above and the members oí
his family mentioned on the reverse, but it does not authorize journey
by rail, for which a separate pass shall be obtained by each individual
requiring it, nor does it cover residence outside the village of
It will be in force until revoked.
Signature
Designation.
Date
(Reverse of Form.')
Name.
llow related to pass-holder,
Signature.
Designation.
Dato.
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APPENDIX. II-a
GENERAL PASS.
[Seo Rule 83 on. page 30.]
(To be issued for daily or frequent journeys by rail from an
infected area.)
No.
District.
Station of issue.
Name of person.
Father's name.
Caste.
Age.
Ordinary residence.
Journey covered by this pass.
Signature.
Designation.
Date.
APPENDIX II-D,
GENERAL PASS.
[See "Rule 83 on page 30.]
(To bo issued to persons who leave an infected or notified place to
attend markets in the adjoining non-infected area.)
1. Inspection station through which the holder will pass.
2. Railway station where the holder will alight.
3. Name of person.
4. Father's name.
5. Caste.
6. Age.
7. Sex.
r District.
8. From what infected or notified place } Taluq.
Village.
{ District.
9. To what market
,
{
Taluq,
[Village.
1
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[Appendix II-E,
This pass allows the holder to remain in the village of
for 24 hours at a time without a passport. On the expiry of the period
he must either have left the village or have provided himself with a
passport. He must show this pass to the officer in charge of the
inspection station through which he will have to pass when proceeding
to the village where the market is held and to the passport-issuing
officer at the railway station whore he alights as also to the local
authority of the village at or near which the market is held and obtain
their initials on the reverse. He will likewise show this pass on his
return to the officers mentioned above and obtain their initials. There
is, however, no necessity to present it at the railway inspection station
if there be no medical inspection on his return journey from the village.
Holder's signature
Date
Signature of issuing officer.
APPENDIX 1T-E.
SPECIAL PASS,
[See Rule 85 on page 31.]
(To be issued to persons leaving an inhabited infected area to reside in
its neighbourhood.)
No.
District.
Station of issue.
Number of office of issue.*
Name of person.
Father's name,
Caste.
Occupation.
Age.
Ordinary residence.
The above-named person (and his family consisting of
males
and
females as per reverse) is permitted to reside temporarily at
are
(name of site or number of field) on his producing this pass, with the
accompanying certificate † duly filled in by the officer responsible for
disinfection.
Date.
Signature and designation.
* To bo entered when there is more than one office of issue in a town.
† If the family leaves a healthy area of the town or a house that has nob boon
infected, this part of the certificate may be dispensed with at the discretion of the
issuing officer.
Appendix
II-F.]
67
(Reverse of Form.)
Name.
How related to pass-holder.
Signature.
Designation.
Date,
Disinfection Certificate.
I. hereby certify that having satisfied myself that arrangements for
residence at the site named by the above-described person (and his
family) were complete, I immediately before -
- departure carefully
disinfected all clothing and property removed by him/them..
Date.
Signature of officer in charge of
disinfection.
APPENDIX II-F.
[See Rule 121 on page 10.]
[(COUNTERFOIL ]
No.
Name
Father's name
Street
Village
Town
Taluq.
District
Date
Initials of operator,
Plague Inoculation,
Certificate.
No.
CERTIFIED that
, son of
Street
,
resident
of
Tillage
Town
, District
' Taluq
, has been inoculated by mo, and
that his thumb-mark was at the time impressed
before me.
Space for left thumb-mark. Sigmtlir& md
designation.
Dated
\
NOTE,—Unlesss suffcnng from, or suspected to be suffering from.
plague, the holder of the certificate is exempted from segregation
from detention when travelling, and from ten days' observation
under the passport rules. It does not, however, exempt him from
house, execpt jr. the case where all
e been moeulated, or to have his
lling.
The certificate is valid for
u period of six months,
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APPENDIX II-GK
lictyisiw of permanent passes issued to persons attending markets.
[Sue Kule 84 ou page 30.]
Date of
ÜSTnme oi' person.
Pass number.
Arrival.
•
1
Return.
Remarks.
APPENDIX II-H.
Relaxation of Passport Rules.
[See Rule 89 on page 31.]
The inconveniences and difficulties attending the working of the
passport rules in the case of railway officers have been brought to notice
both by the railway authorities and Collectors. A general relaxation
of the rules cannot be made in favour of any particular class. The
trouble that is now experienced by those constantly on the move may
be avoided by them if they are willing to be inoculated, and no relax-
ation of the rules is called for in the case of those who are unwilling to
be inoculated and to whom the inconvenience is merely personal.
2. There are persons, however, constantly employed on the railways
such as engine drivers, firemen, guards and mail sorters, with regard to
whom, as long as they are on actual duty from day to day, tho strict
enforcement of the passport rales may result in public inconvenience
and in their cases some relaxation may be granted. The duties of
these men are of a fairly constant nature, and they halt for any length
of time only at the larger stations, where their absence from regular
duty must come at once to the notice of a superior officer. On the
Appendix II-H,]
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application of the railway or postal authorities, collectors/the President of the Municipal
Commission,
Madras
the ordinary passport rales
individual servants of the classes named, and such other employes of a
railway also as } in their/his opinion, are required to travel so frequently on
duty that compliance with the requirements of the passport rules would
cause impediment to the execution of their duty, on the understanding
that the officer to whom they are immediately subordinate must report
at once to the nearest local authority every case of sickness among the
servants to whom the exemption is given. Any permanent change in
the nature of the duties performed should be reported to the officer
granting an exemption certificate. Persons so exempted shall be pro-
vided with tickets in the following form :—
Passport Exemption Certificate,
District of
Register No.
(Name)
, son of
, employed as
and ordinarily residing at
, has been
exempted from the passport rules as long as lie travels on duty as such
between the stations of
and
Mark of left thumb
Date of issue
Signature, designation and seal of officer issuing the ticket,
NOTE.— 1. This certitieate is valid up to the 31st March next. It must be exhibited
by the bearer on demand to tiny person authorized under the plague régulations to
inspect or issue passports, or to examine the health condition of travellers.
2. The holder of this certificate is bound to report to the nearest local
authority any case of sickness, whether in himself or another person, occurring in the
house in which he resides within ten days of his last visit to an infected area. FiviLuvo
to comply with this direction will render the holder liable to prosecution.
It should be understood that exemption from the passport rules does
not carry exemption from any of the other regulations framed under
the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897.
3. Other classes of railway servants are probably less frequently on
the move a.ud the enforcement of the rules among them is likely to
result less frequently in public inconvenience. In cases of real diffi-
culty, it may be possible to arrange under niufassal Rule 2 (1)
for the inspection of the passport-holder at the railway station, or,
under mufassal Rule 103, railway officers of known and approved
character and responsible position may be appointed honorary
assistant plague officers, and empowered under mufassal Bule 2 (2) (d)
as " local authorities " at certain stations for the working of the pass-
port rules among railway servants.
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[Appendix II-H.
4 Under- Mufassal Rule 89, Collectors/City regnlation '25 the President of the Madras M
Commission may exempt from the necessity of taking oat passports any
person who is neither a railway nor a postal servant. Such exemption
must be made personally, not generally, and should be granted
sparingly. They must be in following- form :—
NOTE.—J. This certifícale is valid up to the 31st March next. If. must be exhibited
by the bearer ou demand to any officer authorized under the plagne regulations to
inspect or issue passports or examine the health condition of travellers,
2. The holder of this certificate is bound to report to the nearest local
authority any case of sickness whether in himself or another person, occurring in tho
house in"which he resides, within ten days of his lase visit to an infected area. Failure
Lo comply with this direction .will render the holder liable to prosecution.
5. The certificates of exemption prescribed in paragraphs 2 and 4-
above will be issued by the Collector of the district or the President of
the Municipal Commission. Madras, according as the head-quarters of
the individual exempted or his usual residence is within a mufassal town
or the city of Madras. Exemption certificates issued by a Collector
should bo coantersigned by the President of the Municipal Commission,
Madras, or the Health officer of the city, if exemption from surveillance
is claimed thereunder in the Madras city. Elsewhere they should Le
recognised without countersignature of any local authority. Certificates
issued in the Madras city should similarly bo recognized in the districts.
6. Any concession may be withdrawn at any time without assigning
a reason.
Mufassal Rule 89
Under -
gutotfafas
Signature.
Left thumb-mark.
Date of issue.
Collector's
. ,
Number m Pre8idont8 register,
1 (naine) whose signature and thumb-
mark are exhibited
in the margin, and who is employed as a
, is hereby
exempted from the plague passport
rules.
(Signature.)
Collector of
President, Municipal Commission, Madras.
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APPENDIX II-I.
Intimation Form.
[See Rule 11 ou page 9.]
Date of K
traveller..
arrivai. .
1
2
Father's name.
3
|
i
Caste.
Age.
i
,5
Whence
coming.
-
Destination and residence during the next ten days.
District. Talnq.
.
Village. Street.
Number or name
of che owner of the
house.
7
8
9
10
11
Remarks.
*
12
|
N.B.—A single form may he used for more than one traveller proceeding on the same day to the same district.
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APPENDIX II-J.
Time allowed at inspection stations for plague examination,
[See Rule 19 on page 11.]
Kail way administration.
Madras Rail way
Do.
Do.
Southern
Mahratta
Railway.
Inspection or passport
station.
Guntakal
Jalarpet
Coimbatore
Hindupur
i
Time required for inspection or
issue of passports.
Thirty-six minutes for all trains
from Bombay or Raichur.
Fifty minutes for mail trains and
thirty minutes for passenger
trains from Bangalore.
Twenty minutes for mail trains
and thirty minutes for other
trains from Pódauúr.
Thirty- two minutes for all trains
from Bangalore,
APPENDIX II-K.
Detention Certificate.
[See Rule 26 on page 13.]
• •
. Ou-nip
1. Name of passenger
2. Number and description of ticket
3. Detained from
tc
4. Name and designation of issuing officer
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APPENDIX II-M.
Statement to accompany proposals for placing restrictions on-
fair s and festivals.
[See Rule 42 on page 16.]
[
Name
of
1 festival
or
fair.
i
1
|
Place
where
held.
2
Distance
to
nearest
railway
station.
3
Date of
commence-
ment and
termination
of festival
or fair.
4
Average
attendance
during the
past three
years.
5
i
|
From what districts in
the Madras presidency
and from what places
outside the presidency,
pilgrimage should be
prohibited, and the
number of people
expected from each of
such districts or places.
6
1
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APPENDIX II-N.
Notifications for placing restrictions on fairs and festivals.
[See Eule 42 on page 1C.]
NOTIFICATION No, I.
[To be used Avhon the village where the festival or fair is held is infected,]
WHEREAS there is plague in
, in the
taluq of the
district, and whereas it is desirable to prevent its spread :
His Excellency the Grovernor in Council, in exercise of the powers
delegated to him under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, prohibits
pilgrimage to the ensuing
festival of
from the
to the
,
inclusive, [and also the holding of the usual cattle fair in connection
with the said festival,] [and further directs that between the said dates
no tickets to travel by railway shall be sold within the
district[s] for the station[e] of
on the
Railway
and for
the station[s] of
on the
Railway to any person intending or believed to be intending to be
present.]
All persons proceeding to the said festival [or fair] in contravention
of this notification will be turned back.
Secrelary to Government.
NOTIFICATION No. II.
[To be usée -when the village whevo the festival or fair is held lies in the vicinity
of an infected area and it is necessary to prohibit all pilgrimage-]
WHEEEAS His Excellency the Governor in Council is satisfied that
there is danger of an outbreak of plague at
in the
taluq of the
district, if pilgrims
are permitted to visit that place on the occasion of the ensuing-
festival of
[and the usual cattle fair is per-
mitted to be held at that place] :
In exercise of the powers delegated to him under the Epidemic
Diseases Act, 1897, His Excellency in Council prohibits [the holding
of the said fair and also the] pilgrimage to the said festival from the
to the
, inclusive, [and further
directs that between the said dates no tickets to travel by railway shall
be sold within the
districts] for the station[s] of
.on the
R
ail way and for the station[s]
of
on the
Railway to any person
intending or believed to be intending to bo present.]
All persons proceeding to the said festival [or fair] in contravention
of this notification will be turned back.
Secretari/ to Government,
Appendix O.]
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NOTIFICATION No. III.
[To be used in cases where pilgrimage from infected areas is prohibited."]
WHEREAS His Excellency the Governor in Council is satisfied that
there is danger of an outbreak of plague at
in
the
taluq of the
district, if persons from the
and other parts declared to he infected with plague are
permitted to visit that place on the occasion of the ensuing
festival [and cattle fair] :
In exercise of the powers delegated to him under the Epidemic
Diseases Act, 1897, His Excellency in Council prohibits [the holding
of the cattle fair and also] the attendance at the said festival [or fair]
from the
to the
,
inclusive, of persons from the said parts, [and further directs that be-
tween the said dates no tickets to travel by railway shall be sold within
the
district [sj for the
station [s] of
on the
Railway and for the station [s] of
on the
."Railway to any person intending
or believed to be intending to be present.]
All persons proceeding to the said festival [or fair] in contravention
of this notification will be turned back.
Secretar;/ to Government.
APPENDIX II-O.
Plague lieport.
[See Ilulo3123 on page 41.]
P ¿ague Report
Date
1. Name of town or village—.
2. Population of town or village—.
o -m
L Number of seizures—.
. Plague cases up to I
Number of deaths—.
date 01 last report Date of last report—,
4. (a) Date of commencement of illness—.
District.
No.
Imported. Indigenous.
(6) Name and designation of person who first reported the case, and
date on which ho 'did so—.
5. When reported by telegram—.
6. Imported or indigenous— ?
7. Brief history of Gas—,
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[Appendix II-P.
8. (a) If imported, had patient a passport on arrival—?
(b) If ne had no passport, did the local authority supply him with
one—?
(c) In any case was proper surveillance maintained over the patient
from the first—?
9. Steps taken to isolate and treat the patient—.
10. Steps taken towards the segregation of contacts—.
11. Steps taken towards the evacuation and disinfection of the infected
house and property—.
12. Was there any opposition on the part of the inmates of the infected
house or of the people of the village to the plague measures— ?
13. .Remarks.
APPENDIX II-P.
Destruction of Plague Records.
[See Rule 133 on page 44.]
Description of records.
1. Daily reports relating to passports."
2. Daily intimations furnished to the
district medical and sanitary
officer by the medical officer in
charge of a railway inspection
station under mufassal Eule 9. |
3. Daily intimations furnished to the \
district medical and sanitary
officer by passport-issuing officers
under mufassal Rule 11.
4. Intimations of change of residence
of persons while under observa-
tion.
J
5. Daily reports of plague cases and"
deaths in the Mysore State.
6. Daily reports of plague cases and
deaths in Bangalore.
7. Weekly reports of plague cases and
deaths in the Bombay presidency
and the Hyderabad State.
8. Weekly returns of deaths in muni-"
cipalities.
9, Daily telegrams of plague cases
received by the Collector and the
district medical and sanitary
officer under mufassal Eule 71.
When to be destroyed.
At the same time as the
passports to which they
relate.
At the close of the month
succeeding that to which
they relate.
After one year.
Appendix II-Q,.]
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10. Weekly diaries of plague super-""
visors and sanitary inspectors in
charge of observation circles.
11. Daily reports of passengers in-
spected and of those detained at
railway inspection stations.
12. Weekly returns of inoculations
received from the
district
medical and sanitary officer.
13. Weekly returns received from
divisional officers of breaches of
passport rules dealt with by
them.
After one year.
APPENDIX II-Q.
Distribution of spare copies of printed orders of Government.
[See Eule 134 on pago 44.]
A. Collector's office (three copies).
B. Divisional officers (each one copy).
C. Treasury deputy collector (one copy).
D. Tahsildars (each one copy).
E. Deputy tahsildars in independent charge (each one copy).
F. District medical and sanitary officer and civil surgeons (one copy).
G-. Additional medical officer on plague duty (one copy).
H. Medical officer in charge of plague inspection station (one copy).
J. Special plague officers (each one copy).
K. Municipalities (each two copies).
L. President, district board (one copy).
M. Taluk boards (each one copy).
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APPENDIX II-E.
PART I.— Allowances of Officers deputed to Plague Duty.
[See Rule 141 on page 46.]
Class of officers.
A. Military officers
and troops.
t
B. Medical
officers wholly
employed
on
plague duty.
Particulars.
(a) When employed on
guard duty.*
(b) When employed 011
sanitary duty, such as
searching, disiufect-
ing, superintending.,
scavengering, &c. —
(i) Combatant British
commissioned
officers of over 5
years' service,
(ii) Combatant British
commissioned
officers under 5
years' service,
(iii) British non-com-
missioned
officers,
(iv) British privates.
(v) Native officers.
i
(vi) Native non-com-
missioned
officers,
(vii) Sepoys ..,
(i) Commissioned officers
transferred from regi-
mental or purely mili-
tary duty,
(ii) Commissioned
officers in civil em-
ploy,
(iii) Senior military assist-
ant surgeons with
the honorary rank
of Captain or Lieu-
tenant.
Allowances.
Nil.
Rs. 300 a month.
Rs.,200 a month.
Re. 1 + annas 6 extra ration
money per diem.
Annas 12 + annas 6 extra
ration money per diem.
Es. 1-8-0 a day.
Annas 12 a day.
Annas 8 a day.
Samo as in the case of British
commissioned military officers.
Rs. 5 a day.
Rs. 5 a day.
* When the troops employed on plague duty have been performing guard and
sanitary duties in the samo place together, that is to say, when some of the party
have been employed on sanitary duties while others have been doing guard duty,
the duties being interchangeable, all the troops should bo paid allowances. On
the other hand, where the duties assigned to any one body of troops have been
exclusively of the nature of guard duties no allowances should be granted. The
allowances shall be paid only for the days on which the troops are actually
employed on plague duty. All doubtful cases should bo referred for the special
orders of Government.
t Medical officers whoso sole diity is the inspection of ships for plague purposes
are not entitled to any special fee for conducting inspection in rough, weather.
Fort health officers called on to inspect vessels from plague-infected ports on
Sundays and closed holidays will be granted a special fee of Us. 16 for each inspection,
but not more than double fee in respect to the same vessel inspected more than
once on the same day. No port health officer shall, in any one month, receive foes
aggregating more than on-fifth of his salary.