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XXXV
Register of " Fever " Deaths in the Punjab in the district of Muzaffargarh daring the year 1918.
Serial No.
1
2
S
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Registration unit.
Muzaffargarh
Khangarh
Alipur
Leiah
Karor
...
...
...
...
...
Total of towns
Muzaffargarh
Rangpur
Kuraishi
Kinghar
Khangarh
Rohillanwali
Shahr Sultan
Jatoi
Alipur
Sitpur
Sanawan
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Dera Din Panah
Khanwoli
Mahmudkot
Leiah
Kot Sultan
Karor
Chobara
...
...
...
...
...
...
Total of rural circles
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Total of towns and rural circles
January.
21
26
13
18
13
91
168
56
89
219
266
194
156
251
242
191
179
296
90
235
125
121
74
24
2,826
2,917
February.
6
12
10
18
14
60
143
58
105
116
154
185
97
227
100
200
166
122
54
138
128
114
95
24
2,228
2,286
March.
17
9
10
17
17
70
84
32
56
75
72
92
85
106
93
94
82
101
66
101
111
96
73
23
1,442
1,512
April.
11
8
8
16
12
55
68
37
33
74
76
76
44
93
76
66
77
55
49
71
104
81
83
13
1,176
1,231
May.
9
3
6
7
5
30
54
26
47
81
53
68
29
71
64
81
80
70
50
69
84
83
91
18
1,119
1,149
June.
5
7
5
2
2
21
37
24
22
61
60
58
29
48
52
35
73
67
24
46
64
47
40
15
802
823
_
July.
8
5
3
12
5
33
32
17
28
27
40
71
24
44
31
39
53
59
17
30
55
37
47
17
668
701
August.
5
7
2
8
5
27
34
19
16
46
41
35
20
52
45
20
50
49
14
43
47
39
36
14
620
647
September.
27
23
55
16
28
149
55
24
33
48
46
54
43
129
54
43
56
70
14
43
61
50
57
19
899
1,048
October.
88
55
11
109
47
310
575
245
327
365
596
465
230
349
279
372
506
400
163
590
513
344
348
132
6,799
7,109
November.
13
18
8
47
16
102
659
371
1,011
935
1,067
1,065
401
646
535
351
1,484
1,303
164
1,077
882
1,000
653
129
13,734
13,83 6
December.
8
6
7
17
8
46
177
92
312
480
231
335
131
270
301
194
442
400
141
146
205
163
158
77
4,255
4,301
Total.
218
179
138
287
172
994
2,086
1,001
2,079
2,527
2,642
2,699
1,289
2,286
1,872
1,686
3,248
2,902
846
2,589
2,379
2,175
1,755
505
36,566
37,560
xxxvi
Register of "Fever" Deaths in the Punjab in the District of Dera Ghazi Khan, during the year 1918.
Serial No.
H
1
2
8
4
5
6
7
§
9
10
11
32
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Kegiatration unit.
Dera Ghazi Khan
...
Jampur
...
...
Dajal
...
Rajanpur
...
...
Mithankot
...
Total of towns
.,,
Dera Ghazi Khan
Kot Chutta ...
Choti
Kala
Taunsa
...
...
Retra
Vehoa
...
...
Jampur
...
„.
Tibbi Luna ... ...
Dajal
...
...
Harrund
...
...
Fazilpur ... ...
Eajanpur
...
...
Rojhan
...
...
Shahvali
...
...
Mithankot
...
...
Draman
...
...
Batil ... ...
Total of rural circle3
...
Total of towns and rural
circles
...
...
January
73
81
61
27
16
208
59
231
108
49
213
68
133
175
15
156
104
100
133
202
14
145
95
100
2,105
2,318
Feburary
26
14
A4,
18
44
146
43
194
112
85
261
38
88
211
17
91
88
69
52
177
13
76
11
65
1,647
1,793
March
24
6
15
13
6
64
28
116
94
25
90
44
101
111
16
69
69
48
65
96
8
57
79
50
1,166
1,230
April
20
6
17
12
5
60
24
100
69
19
68
71
122
34
73
112
3
50
79
90
53
21
6
34
1,028
1,088
May
19
8
23
11
12
73
35
127
111
33
97
28
91
166
6
44
113
93
80
30
7
51
55
97
1,234
1,307
June
16
5
14
5
5
45
38
53
64
20
119
37
69
83
3
26
60
59
48
16
1
24
35
45
8C0
845
July
15
4
5
4
6
34
27
65
36
19
63
24
48
46
7
25
11
18
23
17
2
25
52
22
530
564
August
9
3
2
5
4
23
24
70
54
20
60
21
31
28
4
16
22
19
24
24
2
19
21
13
472
495
September
56
31
24
7
6
124
22
85
94
69
71
20
55
55
4
22
13
30
19
24
5
23
66
22
699
823
Octomber
202
114
128
78
41
563
252
2,155
1,259
241
1,002
172
607
855
233
766
452
585
279
100
14
324
812
494
10,55
11,11
November
18
26
19
14
20
97
544
1,456
1,432
527
1,035
538
700
1,454
63
258
274
465
472
195
135
627
504
674
2 11,35
5 11,45
December
21
12
12
5
3
5.3
89
184
486
187
335
136
92
332
16
38
62
181
155
341
52
167
55
10Ë
2,958
3,011
Total
499
260
364
199
168
1,490
1,185
4,836
3,919
1,244
3,354
1,197
2,142
3,550
457
1,618
1,271
1,617
1,399
1,312
306
1,559
1,857
1,721
34,544
36,034
TABLE IV.
To SHOW SPLEEN-RATE ACCORDING TO DISTBICTS, JUNE 1918.
Ko.
1
2
3
4
5
6
•7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26.
27
28
Name.
Hissar
...
Rohtak
...
Gurgaon
...
Karnal
...
...
Ambala
...
Simla
...
Kangra
...
...
Hcshiarpur
...
...
Jallundar
...
...
Ludhiana
... ...
Ferozepore ... ...
Lahore
...
...
Amritsar
...
...
Gurdaspur
...
...
Sialkot
Gujranwaja
...
Gujrat ... ...
Shahpur
...
...
Jhelum
...
...
Rawalpindi
...
...
Attock
...
....
Mianwali
...
...
Montgomery
...
...
Lyallpur
...
...
Jhang
...
...
Multan
Muzaffargarh
... ...
Dera Ghazi Khan
...
...
Provincial Total ...
No. of
schools.
32
17
23
34
22
5
11
44
20
14
31
55
46
25
34
28
24
20
11
11
10
6
7
19
24
25
17
20
615
No. of boya
attending.
988
1,114
956
1,434
1,859
106
723
2,435
1,964
S33
1,930
5,623
3,S81
2,129
3,137
3,105
2,032
2,118
881
1,871
1,115
496
826
1,417
1,959
1,609
1,152
1,236
49,137
No. of boys
examined.
790
965
832
1,201
1,365
68
661
2,210
1,889
843
1,720
5,110
3,263
1,960
2,S52
2.709
1,806
1,668
748
1,582
938
403
721
1,300
1,642
1,371
966
1,075
42,65S
No. + Spleen
78
68
117
103
164
10
94
238
113
46
185
254
413
377
285
828
177
512
192
106
125
307
247
404
398
622
576
7,138
DEGREE OF ENLARGEMENT OF SPLEEN.
I.
712
897
715
1,098
1,201
58
567
1,972
1,776
797
1,535
4,856
2,S50
1,583
2,567
1,881
1,629
1,156
556
1,476
839
278
414
1,053
1,238
973
344
499
35,520
II.
45
55
58
60
93
9
45
167
95
32
77
92
148
193
140
256
107
259
73
63
45
59
106
108
170
200
146
191
3,092
III.
26
10
27
24
39
1
35
60
16
10
67
92
162
112
89
303
46
124
61
31
27
30
103
90
109
110
196
197
2,197
IV..
6
2
24
16
22
...
10
8
1
4
33
51
70
40
39
176
19
84
26
8
19
23
65
35
93
56
161
147
1,240
V.
1
...
6
2
7
...
1
3
1
...
6
16
24
28
15
53
4
36
25
3
3
9
25
8
26
20
71
23
416
VI.
...
2
...
3
...
2
...
...
...
3
2
8
3
2
87
1
8
4
1
4
3
7
5
5
11
31
15
157
VII.
1
...
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
1
1
1
...
3
...
1
3
...
1
1
1
1
1
1
14
3
36
Spleen-fate.
9.8
7.0-
14.0
8.5
120
14.7
142
10.7
5.9
5.4
10.7
4.9
12.6
19.2
9.9
30.5
9.8
30.6
25.6
67
10.5
31.0
42.5
19.0
24-6
29.0
64.3
53.5
16.7
REMARKS..
Size of spleen—
I = Not palpable.
II - extends 1 finger
breadth below costal
margin.
III\- extends 2 fingers'
breadth below costal
margin.
IV = extends 3 fingers'
breadth below costal
margin.
V = extends 4 fingers'
breadth below costal
margin.
VI s= extends to umiblis
CUS.
VII = extends beyond
umbilical.
TABLE V.
To SHOW SPIEEN-RATE ACCORDING TO DISTRICTS, NOVEMBER 1918.
No
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
31
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
S3
24
25
26
27
28
DlSTRICT.
Hissar
..
Rohtak
...
...
Gurgaon ... ...
Karnal ... ...
Ambala
...
...
Simla ...
...
Kangra
...
...
Hoshiarpur
...
...
Jullundur
...
...
Ludhiana
...
Ferozepore ... ...
Lahore
...
Amristar
...
...
Gurdaspur
...
...
Sialkot
...
Gujranwala
...
...
Gujrat
...
...
Shahpur
...
...
Jhelum
...
...
Rawalpindi
...
Attock
...
...
Mianwali ... ...
Montgomery
...
...
Lyallpur ... ...
Jhang ... ...
Maltan ... ...
Muzaffargarb
...
...
Dera Ghazi
Khan
...
...
Provincial Total
...
No. of
schools.
12
18
31
34
22
8
10
39
17
15
32
51
38
22
28
30
24
18
11
12
9
8
7
18
16
27
16
20
Ë93
No. of boys
attending.
1,003
1,274
1,370
1,579
1,613
367
606
2,285
1,917
1.119
2,024
4,029
3,504
1,943
2,196
3 043
1,791
1,621
805
2,065
934
732
887
1,419
2,076
3,917
1,219
1,357
46,995
No. of boys
examined.
803
1,034
885
1,264
1,235
293
497
1,967
1,832
949
1,769
4,354
2,867
1,693
2,251
2,602
1,588
1,386
704
1,585
775
420
690
1,256
1,443
1,742
1,005
1,170
40,059
No. + spleen
76
71
70
48
95
1
133
226
140
54
193
331
235
261
184
486
114
289
110
94
132
91
189
146
193
317
401
476
4,956
DEGREE OF ENLARGEMENT OF SPLEEN
I.
727
963
815
1,216
1,140
292
364
1,741
1,692
895
1,576
4,223
2,632
1,432
2,067
2,116
1,474
1,097
594
1,491
643
329
501
1,110
1,250
1,425
604
694
35,103
II.
55
64
40
32
59
88
175
117
44
118
58
101
140
12S
201
62
185
64
55
85
63
121
67
101
352
148
197
2,720
III.
15
5
18
15
23
,„
30
38
20
9
41
39
101
73
84
165
37
73
25
32
33
23
43
59
68
106
140
151
1,416
IV.
4
2
30
1
9
,,,
11
11
3
1
30
25
29
33
16
82
9
21
17
4
11
4
18
18
20
44
66
92
591
V.
2
• ••
2
...
4
1
3
2
...
...
2
7
2
7
4
81
4
7
3
3
2
1
5
2
3
11
29
24
161
VI.
...
...
...
...
,..
1
...
...
...
2
2
1
S
2
S
2
2
1
...
1
...
2
1
4
17
10
61
VII.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
..
...
1
...
...
2
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
2
7
Spleen-rate.
94
6.8
79
3.8
7.7
0.5
26.7
11.4
7.6
5.6
10.9
3.0
8.2
15.4
8.1
186
71
20.8
15.6
5.9
17.0
21.6
27.4
11.6
13.3
18.2
399
41.5
12.3
REMARKS.
Size of spleen—
See remarks column in
Table IV.
19 IGCH -358-2 8-19---SGPP Laholo.
Appendix C.
MAP I.
July, 1919.-No. 5265=359
Appendix C
MAP II.
Photo. Zinco, July, 1919.—No.5263-1-359
THE
MADRAS PLAGUE REGULATIONS
AND RULES.
SECOND EDITION.
(Revised up to 17th October 1899.)
MADRAS:
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1899.
[9 pence.]
THE
MADRAS PLAGUE REGULATIONS
AND RULES.
SECOND EDITION.
(Revised up to 17th October 1899.)
MADRAS:
PRINTED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRESS,
1899,
CONTENTS.
PART I.
CHAPTER I —
(1) Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897
(2) Government of India, Home Department Notification, No. 302,
dated 4th February 1897, conferring powers on Local Govern-
ments
(3) Government of India, Home Department Notifications,* No.
1550, dated 28th April 1899, and No. 2653, dated 15th Sep-
tember 1899, prescribing rules for the transmission of
plague microbes or cultures
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
CHAPTER II —
(1) Regulations for the City of Madras (Notification,* No 898,
Fort St. George Gazette, dated 18th December 1897) - .
(2) Notification No, 830, dated 18th October 1898, declaring the
whole of the City of Madras to be subject to section 309 of
the City of Madras Municipal Act, 1884
CHAPTER III --
(1) Original Mufassal Regulations for District Municipalities and
Towns and Villages (Notification,* No. 897, Fort St. George
Gazette, dated 18th December 1897)
(2) Notification, No. 531, dated 5th July 1898, directing that passen-
gers proceeding from infected parts to the Nilgiris shall
obtain passports at Pódanúr ...
. .
. .
. .
(3) Notification, No. 638, dated 9th August 1898, framing rules
in connection with the issue of passports at Pódanúr
(4) Additional Mufassal Regulations for District Municipalities
and Towns and Villages (Notification,* No. 169, Fort St.
George Gazette, dated 1st March 1898)
CHAPTER IV —
(1) Regulations for the" Inspection of Inward-bound Vessels (Noti-
fication,* No. 163, Fort St. George Gazette, dated 31st August
1897)
(2) Regulations for the Inspection of Outward-bound Vessels
(Notification,* No. 181, Fort St. George Gazette, dated 2nd
November 1897)
(3) Notification, No. 37, dated 26th April 1898, directing that the
Regulations for the Inspection of Outward-bound Vessels
be brought into force in certain ports
CHAPTER V —
Rules under the District Municipalities Act, 1884, for combating
plague in Municipalities (Notification,* No. 185, Fort St. George
Gazette, dated 16th March 1897) . .
PAGE
5
6
7
10
23
24
40
41
41
68
66
72
73
* As amended by subsequent Notifications
iv
PART II.
CHAPTER VI —
-
(1) Resolution of the Government of India, Home Department,
Sanitary, Nos. 227—240, dated 3rd February 1898, explain-
ing the plague policy . .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
(2) G.O , No. 396-P., dated 27th April 1898, communicating the
above resolution with subsidiary instructions
CHAPTER VII —
(1) Instructions regarding construction, equipment and manage-
ment of Plague Hospitals and Plague Camps
(2) Plague Commissioner's hints regarding the construction of
private Plague Hospitals in Madras
(3) Equipment of a ten-bed hospital . .
(4) Equipment of camps attached to Railway Inspection Stations. .
(5) Equipment of camps attached to Road Frontier Inspection
CHAPTER VIII —
Treatment of plague
CHAPTER IX —
Important orders relating to plague measures —
(1) Agency to be employed . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) Evacuation of houses and segregation. . . . . . . .
(3) Search parties . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) Inspection and burial of corpses . . . . . . . .
(5) Disinfection
.
.
. .
. .
. . . .
. .
(6) Railway inspection . . . . . . . . . . . .
(7) Observation system and passport rules
. .
. .
(9) Fairs, festivals and pilgrimages. . . . . . . .
(10)
Rats.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
CHAPTER X —
Orders affecting the regulations issued in the Marine Department—
(1) Instructions regarding the admission of healthy vessels from
infected ports and the working of cargo . .
. .
(2) Precautions to be adopted in identifying passengers by Bom-
bay Steam Navigation Company's steamers from infected
ports in the Bombay Presidency
(3) Precautions for embanking passengers at Madras Ports on
vessels arriving from infected ports . .
(4) Circular to Belgian Consular Agents
(5) Letter from the Government of India, Home Department,
No. 1624, dated 1st June 1897, explaining the terms of
the Venice Sanitary Convention . . . . . . ..
CHAPTER XI —
Miscellaneous orders —
(4) Sanitary Commissioner's tours . . . . . . . .
(5) Duties of the Railway Staff
(6) Rules for sending articles to the Plague Research Laboratory,
Bombay
(7) Plague officers and allowances
(8) Plague expenditure and accounts
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PAET I.
CHAPTER I.
(1)—EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT (III OF 1897).
An Act to provide for the better prevention of the spread of
Dangerous Epidemic Disease.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the better prevention
of the spread of dangerous epidemic disease; It is hereby
enacted as follows :—
Short title, extent and
commencement.
1. (1) This Act may be called the
Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 ;
(2) It extends to the whole of British India (inclusive
of Upper Burma, British Baluchistan, the Santal Parganas
and the Pargana of Spiti); and
(3) It shall come into force at once.
Power to take special
measures and prescribe
regulations us to dangerous
epidemic disease
2. (1) When at any time the Governor-General in Council
is satisfied that India or any part there-
of is visited by, or threatened with, an
outbreak of any dangerous epidemic
disease, the Governor-General in Council,
if he thinks that the ordinary provisions of the law for the
time being in force are insufficient for the purpose, may take
or require or empower any person to take such measures and,
by public notice, prescribe such temporary Regulations to
be observed by the public or by any person or class of per-
sons as he shall deem necessary to prevent the outbreak of
such disease or the spread thereof, and may determine in
what manner and by whom any expenses incurred (including
compensation if any) shall be defrayed.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing provisions, the Governor-General in Council
may take measures and prescribe Regulations for—
(a) the inspection of any ship or vessel leaving, or
arriving at, any port in British India and such
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detention thereof, or of any person intending
to sail therein, or arriving thereby, as may be
necessary; and
(b) the inspection of persons travelling by railway or
otherwise and the segregation, in hospital, tem-
porary accommodation or otherwise, of persons
suspected by the inspecting officer of being
infected with any such disease.
(3) The Governor-General in Council may, by general
or special order, direct that all or any of the powers conferred
by this Act may also be exercised by any Local Government
with respect to the territories administered by it.
Penalty.
3. Any person disobeying any regulation or order made
under this Act shall be deemed to have
committed an offence punishable under
XLV of section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.
1860.
Protection to persons
acting under Act.
4. No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against any
person for anything done or in good
faith intended to be done under this
Act.
(2)—GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, HOME DEPARTMENT NOTIFICA-
TION CONFERRING POWERS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
(No. 302, DATED 4TH FEBRUARY 1897).
WHEREAS certain parts of India are visited by, and others
threatened with, an outbreak of dangerous epidemic disease
known as bubonic plague, the Governor-General in Council,
in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2, sub-section
(3), of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, is pleased to direct
that the powers conferred by the said Act may be exercised
by Local Governments with regard to their respective terri-
tories as follows :—
(a) All the said powers * by the Governors of Fort St.
George and Bombay in Council, the Lieutenant-Governor of
Bengal and Chief Commissioner of Burma.
*
*
*
*
* Note.—Local Governments, however, should not issue Regulations affecting
sea-borne trade. Such Regulations will be issued by the Government of India alone.
(G.O., No. 142, Marine, dated 20th February 1897.)
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(3)-RULES REGARDING THE TRANSMISSION OF PLAGUE
MICROBES OR CULTURES.
A.—Notification of the Government of India, Home Department
(Sanitary—Plague), dated Simla, 28th April 1899, No.
1550, as amended by Notification No. 2648 dated 15th,
September 1899.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the
Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, the Governor-General in Coun-
cil is pleased to make the following Regulation to be observed
by all persons embarking on board vessels at any port in
British India, namely,—
1. No person, without the written or printed permission
in this behalf of the Local Government in whose territories
the port is situated, under the signature of a Secretary to
Government, first obtained, shall take either on his own
person, or in any baggage or parcel, or as cargo or otherwise
howsoever, or shall send or permit to be taken or sent on his
account either on the person of another, or in any baggage
or parcel, or as cargo or otherwise howsoever, any plague
microbes or cultures on board any vessel in any port in
British India.
2. No person, whether he has or has not obtained per-
mission as hereinbefore required, shall take, send or permit
to be taken or sent as aforesaid any such microbes or cultures,
on any such vessel at any such port unless and until he has—
(1) given 14 clear days' notice in writing of his
intention so to do to the Health officer of such port; and
(2) by a certificate in the form hereinafter contained
and signed by such person, and in such other manner as may
be required by such officer, satisfied such officer that all such
microbes or cultures—
(a) are addressed to, and intended for scientific
purposes at, some recognised constituted
laboratory or laboratories specified by such
person in his own handwriting ; and
(6) are secured in a hermetically closed tin or
tins of adequate strength, placed in a strong-
outer box of wood or tin with a layer of at
least three-quarters of an inch of raw
cotton-wool between the inner and the
outer case, the outer case being enclosed in
stout cloth, securely fastened and sealed,
and labelled with such distinguishing in-
scription as will suffice to make immediately
manifest the nature of the contents,
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Form of certificate referred to in rule 2 (2).
Certified that the plague microbes (or cultures) which I wish to send
to
by the vessel
which is timed to sail
from the port of
on the
are addressed
to the Scientific Laboratory at
and are intended for
scientific purposes at that Laboratory or other recognised Scientific
Laboratories. Certified also that the microbes (or cultures) are secured
in
tin(s) of adequate strength, hermetically sealed, and
labelled.
(Signed)
DATED
The
1899.
(G.O., No 421, Marine, dated 13th May 1899 , No. 926, Marine, dated 5th October 1899.)
B.—Notification of the Government of India, Home Department,
(Sanitary—Plague), dated Simla, 15th September 1899,
No. 2653.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the
Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (III of 1897), the Governor-
General in Council is pleased to make the following regula-
tions to be observed by persons sending or taking from place
to place in India cultures or other articles known or believed
to contain the living germs of plague :—
1. No person who is not a Commissioned Medical Officer,
a Military Assistant Surgeon, or a medical practitioner in
possession of a qualification not lower than that of L.M.S. of
the University of Calcutta, Madras or Bombay, shall, without
the special permission of the Grovernor-General in Council or
a Local Government, take in his private possession from one
place to another any culture or other article which he knows
or believes to contain the living germ of plague.
2. No such culture or other article as aforesaid shall be
sent from one place to another,—
(a) unless it is securely packed in a hermetically
closed tin of adequate strength, placed in a
strong outer box of wood or tin with a layer
of at least three-quarters of an inch of raw
cotton-wool between the inner and the outer
case, the outer case being enclosed in stout cloth,
securely fastened and sealed, and labelled with
such distinguishing inscription as will suffice to
make immediately manifest the nature of the
contents ;
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(b) unless it is consigned to a Government Laboratory
or to a person specially permitted by the Governor-
General in Council or the Local Government to
receive such cultures or other articles; and
(c) unless the sender declares its nature to the carrying
agency and signs a certificate to the effect that
he has advised the consignee of its despatch.
3. No package containing any such culture or other article
as aforesaid shall be opened in any place which is free from
plague without the special permission of the Governor-General
in Council.
(G.O., No. 1446-P., dated 2nd October 1899.)
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CHAPTER II.
(1)—REGULATIONS UNDER THE EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT,
1897, FOR THE CITY OF MADRAS.
(G.O., No. 2830-M., dated 17th December 1897 ; Notification
No. 898, "Fort St. George Gazette" dated 18th December
1897, Part I, pages 1589-1593.)
WHEREAS certain parts of India are visited by, and the
Presidency of Madras is threatened with, an outbreak of a
dangerous epidemic disease known as bubonic plague, and
whereas the ordinary provisions of the law in force in the
Presidency are insufficient for the purpose of preventing the
outbreak or spread of the disease, His Excellency the Governor
of Fort St. George in Council, in exercise of the powers dele-
gated to him under section 2, sub-section (3), of the Epidemic
Diseases Act, 1897, by the Governor-General in Council, is
pleased to prescribe under the said Epidemic Diseases Act the
following revised Regulations to be observed in the City of
Madras :—
1. Every house-holder who becomes cognizant of any case
of the bubonic plague or of fever with glandular swellings in
his house or in any other private dwelling within the municipal
limits of the City of Madras, or of the arrival thereat of any
person from any area which has been notified * by the Govern-
ment or the President of the Municipal Commission to be
infected, shall be bound forthwith to give information of the
same to the Health officer or a Sanitary Inspector of the
municipality. Every house-holder and every keeper or person
in charge of an hotel, chuttrarn or other place of public resort
shall also in the same manner forthwith report the arrival at
the house, hotel, chuttram or other place, of any person from
any area which has been notified * by the Governor in Council
or the Collector to be infected.
2. The President of the Municipal Commission or any officer
generally or specially authorized by him in writing in this
behalf may, when he considers necessary, enter upon any pre-
mises at any time during daylight and summarily execute any
* Note.—Only the places actually infected with plague should, as a rule, be notified
as such (G.O., No. 878-P., dated 12th June 1899),