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These camps were constructed with bamboo posts, roofs eifcher of
double bamboo matting or cadjans, and walls of bamboo matting. The
roofs of some of the sheds in the Elphinstone Bridge, the Goculdass.
Tejpal, and the rTorthbrook Gardens camps were of corrugated iron
—a more substantial protection against wet weather. The floors were
of earth or moorum. Latrine accommodation was provided and stand-
pipes with paved platforms for bathing and washing were erected :
drainage and cesspool arrangements were made where necessary. The
camps were lighted throughout with kerosine oil, on old wooden lamp-
posts. Alterations, additions and repairs were constantly going on in
the various camps as necessity arose. At the beginning of the mon-
soon those on low-lying ground were completely demolished, to be
erected again in the cold season, while of the remainder a sufficient
proportion was strengthened and made weather-proof to meet the
requirements ot'the monsoon.
The camps were practically the same and in the same situations
as the previous year. The Arthur Road Dhobi Camp was amalgamated
with the Arthur Road Hospital, the Crawford Market Camp was made
over to the Executive Engineer for the accommodation of persons
evicted from condemned houses, and it was not found necessary to re-
erect the Ghoruprleo Camps. The Plague Administration continue to be
indebted to Sir Dinshaw Maueckji Petit for the loan of the site of the
temporary wards and sheds at the Maratha Hospital, to Rao Bahadur
Ellapa Balaram for his maintenance of the Balaram Camp, to the Colaba
Land and Mills Company for the loan of the site of a small camp at
Victoria Bundai-, now amalgamated with the Vittal Sayana Camp, and to
various gentlemen for the free use of their property in F and G wards
and elsewhere during the year. Government land was occupied rent
free, the Port Trust continued to charge ^ th of the ordinary rates for
land let out to the Municipality for plague purposes, and the Improve-
ment Trust charged out of pocket expenses, or such rent as they would
otherwise have secured.
The camps were managed on precisely the same lines as described
in last year's report, and it will suffice to transcribe the following account
of the Narielwadi Segregation Camp, given by Mr. Row, the Camp
Master :—
Segregation Camp.—Established 1897 ; accommodation for 1,000 persons, ?!.<?., 500
for contacts and 500 for evicts. Tho camp was for Mahrattas and low caste Hindus ;
contacts and evicts came höre generally from E Ward West, F and G Wards, and Nos.
8 and 9 Districts ; on the arrival of contacts and evicts in the camp, their names were
at once registered and they were then taken to the sterilizer with all their clothino· and
furniture and after being washed and their belongings disinfected they wer« allotted
huts; contacts on one side of the camp and evicts on the other to prevent the possibi-
lity of the latter being infected by the former. Every inmate of the camp is daily
inspected by the Medical Officer of the section ; blankets are also served out to thoso
in poor circumstances, and to any others who may require them. In cases where the
contacts and evicts were badly off they were allowed to retain the blankets and take
them away with them when leaving cainp. The blankets that were returned were