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present himself. On the expiry of ten days the passport-
holder shall deliver up his passport to the inspecting officer
for transmission to the President, Municipal Commission,
Madras. In case he has to leave Madras City within the
aforesaid period of ten days, he shall forthwith give intima-
tion to the inspecting officer, who shall report the fact
to the local authority * of the new place of residence, and
enter in the passport the name of the officer before whom
the passenger must present himself at the new place of resi-
dence, and the passenger shall be bound to present himself
accordingly.
Provided that, when it appears desirable, the President,
Municipal Commission, Madras, or the Health Officer may,
by endorsement on the passport, exempt any person from
personal attendance and permit him to be inspected at his
residence.
In the case of minors and incapacitated persons, the
obligation to take out passports for them, to present them for
daily inspection, to report truly their names and addresses, to
intimate any changes in their residence, and to comply other-
wise with the requirements of this Regulation shall vest in
their legal guardians or persons in whose charge they travel
or who receive them at the railway station of destination.
The passport shall, in the case of those arriving by the
Madras Railway, be issued at Perambúr, and in the case of
those arriving by sea at the harbour. It shall be in the
following form :—
PASSPORT.
(To be issued to a person arriving from a plague-infected locality, or
any notified area, under Regulation 22 under the Epidemic Diseases
Act, published in the Fort St. George Gazette, Part I-A, dated
April 11, 1899, page 137, as amended by Notification No. 563,
Fort St. George Gazette, dated July 4, 1899, Part I-A, page 254.)
1. Passport No.
2. Station of issue.
3. Date of arrival.
4. Name of person.
5. Father's name.
6. Caste.
7. Age.
8. Whence coming.
9. Destination and residence during the next ten days (give Circle,
Street and Number or Name of the owner of the house).
* Vide Mufassal Regulation 17 (i), published in the Fort St. George Gazette, dated
11th April 1899, Part I-A, page 139.
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10. When the triplicate of the passport sent and to whom.
I declare the above information to be correct, and I do hereby bind
myself
to
appear
for inspection, daily, for the
to present the abovementioned person
next ten days, before the passport examiner of _________________ Circle.
Date
Signature or mark of traveller.
Declared and signed before me.
Date
Signature and designation of the officer
issuing the passport.
Note.—This should be prepared in triplicate, one copy being retained by the officer
issuing it, the second delivered to the person to whom it is issued, and the third sent to
the officer who is to conduct the ten days' inspection.
Endorsement of the Inspecting officer.
Date.
1st day
2nd ,,
3rd „
4th „
5th „
6th „
7th „
8th „
9th „
10th „
Signature.
Designation.
Forwarded to the President, Municipal Commission, Madras, the
passenger having been duly inspected.
Date.
Signature and Designation of the Examining officer.
(See reverse.)
Reverse.
Regulation 22 under the Epidemic Diseases Act, published in the
Fort St. George Gazette, Part I-A, dated April 11, 1899, page 137,
as amended by Notification No. 563, Fort St. George Gazette,
dated July 4, 1899, Part I-A, page 254.
City Regulation 22.—Every person arriving, or suspected of having
arrived, from any place declared to be infected with plague, or from any
place notified by His Excellency the Governor of Fort St. Greorge in
Council for the purposes of this Regulation, shall, unless exempted under
Regulation 21, be bound to appear at a place provided for the purpose
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and obtain a passport binding him to present himself daily for inspec-
tion for the next ten days before the officer named in the passport, and
he shall be bound so to present himself. On the expiry of ten days, the
passport-holder shall deliver up his passport to the inspecting officer for
transmission to the President, Municipal Commission, Madras. In case
he has to leave M adras City within the aforesaid period of ten days, he
shall forth with give intimation to the inspecting officer, who shall
report the fact to the local authority * of the new place of residence,
and enter in the passport the name of the officer before whom the
passenger must present himself at the new place of residence, and the
passenger shall be bound to present himself accordingly.
Provided that, when it appears desirable, the President, Municipal
Commission, Madras, or the Health officer may, by endorsement on the
passport, exempt any person from personal attendance and permit him
to be inspected at his residence.
In the case of minors and incapacitated persons, the obligation to
take out passports for them, to present them for daily inspection,
to report truly their names and addresses, to intimate any changes in
their residence, and to comply otherwise with the requirements of this
Regulation shall vest in their legal guardians or persons in whose
charge they travel or who receive them at the railway station of
destination.
N.B.—Any person disobeying or evading the above or any other Plague
Regulation or any order made in pursuance thereof renders himself liable
to prosecution for an offence punishable under section 188 of the Indian
Penal Code, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may
extend to six months or fine which may extend to Rs. 1,000 or both.
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE OFFICER APPOINTED TO CONDUCT THE TEN DAYS'
INSPECTION.
1. The officer shall daily inspect the passenger and initial the
original passport in token of the inspection.
2. He shall daily ascertain from the passenger whether there is any
sickness or death in the house in which he is or has been residing. If
the passenger is found to exhibit any symptoms of plague, or if any
sickness or death is reported in his house, or if the passenger does not
appear for examination on any day, the fact should be immediately
reported to the President or the Health officer of the municipality.
3. If the passenger intimates or it is otherwise known that he
desires to leave Madras within the period of ten days, the particulars of
his future residence should be obtained and the fact communicated with-
out delay to the local authority of the place of the new residence. The
officer before whom the passenger must present himself for inspection at
the new place of residence should be entered in the passport. Intima-
tion of departure to any railway station in the Province of Mysore should
be telegraphed to the—
* Vide Mufaseal Regulation 17 (i), published in the Fort St. George Gazette, dated
April 11, 1899, Part I-A, page 139.
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(a) Assistant Surgeon on plague duty, Yesvantpur, when the
destination is a station on the Mysore State Railway;
(b) Residency Surgeon, Bangalore, when the destination is a
station within Mysore Province on the Madras Railway.
4. The inspecting officer should maintain a register in the following
form :—
(1) Date of receipt of intimation.
(2) Name of traveller.
(3) From what infected or notified area arriving.
(4) Date of arrival of traveller.
(5) Number, date and place of issue of passport.
(6) How long kept under observation.
(7) State of health of the traveller and other persons living
in the house in which he is or has been residing.
(8) Date of departure if occurring within ten days.
(9) Destination,
(10) Date of intimation of departure to the local authority of
the place of destination.
(11) Date of despatch of the passport to the President, Muni-
cipal Commission, Madras.
(2)—NOTIFICATION No. 830, FORT ST. GEORGE GAZETTE, DATED
18TH OCTOBER 1898, PART I-A, PAGE 292.
WHEREAS certain parts of India are visited by, and the City
of Madras is threatened with, an outbreak of plague, and
whereas the ordinary provisions of the law in force in the City
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 delegated to
him under section 2, sub-section (3), of the Epidemic Diseases
Act, 1897, by the Governor-General in Council, hereby de-
clares the whole of the City of Madras to be subject to the
provisions on section 309 of the City of Madras Municipal
Act, 1884.
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CHAPTER III.
(1)—ORIGINAL MUFASSAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE EPI-
DEMIC DISEASES ACT, 1897, FOR DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES
AND TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
(G.O., No. 2830-M., dated 17th December 1897; Notification
No. 897, "Fort St. George Gazette" dated 18th December
1897, Part I, pages 1583-1589.)
WHEREAS certain parts of India are visited by, and the Presi-
dency 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 delegated 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 district municipalities con-
stituted under the District Municipalities Act, 1884, and in
other towns and villages in the Presidency :—
* 1. In every district municipality and every town or village,
every house-holder and every medical practitioner practising
therein 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 limits of the munici-
pality, town or village, shall be bound to give information of
the same, with the least practicable delay, in the municipality
to the Chairman of the Council and the Medical officer in
charge of the municipal dispensary or hospital, and in a town
or village not being a municipality, to the village head or to
the nearest officer of the Revenue or Medical Department,
who shall report the fact at once to his immediate official
superior. Every house-holder and every keeper or person in
charge of an hotel, chuttram or other place of public resort,
* As amended by G.O., No. 1023-P., dated 7th September 1898 ; Notification No.
743, Fort St. George Gazette, dated 13th September 1898, Part I-A, page 266; G.O., No.
1317-P., dated 12th October 1898 ; Notification No. 829, Fort St. George Gazette,
dated 18th October 1898, Part I-A, page 292.
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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. The Chairman or the Rev-
enue or Medical officer, as the case may be, shall forthwith
send information to the Collector of the district of the
occurrence of any such case.
2. On the requisition of the Collector, and to the extent to
which he may determine, a Municipal Council or a District
Board, if it has not already made the provision, shall provide
and maintain in such localities, which, in the case of a munici-
pality, may be within or without the municipal limits, as in the
opinion of the District Medical and Sanitary officer, or a
Medical officer deputed by him, may be proper for the purpose,
suitable and sufficient accommodation † to the satisfaction of such
Medical officer, for the isolation and treatment of persons suffer-
ing or suspected to be suffering from the plague, or to have so
lately suffered from the plague as to be in an infectious state,
or likely from recent contact with plague cases to have been
infected or to be in an infectious state, and also accommodation
for their detention until they shall be certified by the Medical
officer in charge to be free from infection. In the places so
provided, the Municipal Council or the District Board, as the case
may be, shall furnish such hospital establishments, equipment
and supplies as the District Collector may determine, and shall
also make arrangements for feeding persons detained under the
powers conferred by any of the Regulations made under the
Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, on payment by them of the cost;
but in the case of indigent persons, the Municipal Council or the
District Board, as the case may be, shall supply them with food
free of charge: provided that any person so detained may cater
for himself subject to such rules and conditions as the medical
officer in charge may prescribe. The Municipal Council or Dis-
trict Board, as the case may be, shall, on like requisition and in
like manner and subject to like approval, provide accommoda-
tion for persons who may be required to vacate any building or
ground under the Regulations set out below numbered 4, 5 and
* Note.—Only the places actually infected with plague should, as a rule, be notified
as snch (G.O., No. 878-P., dated 12th June 1899).
† Note.—Rule 24 of the rules issued in G.O., No. 252-M., dated 13th March 1897,
requires that isolation huts shall be erected and maintained in each municipal town.
Camps are also attached to all railway and road inspection stations. As regards other
places, sheds should be erected when actually required, any case of plague that may occur
being meanwhile isolated in a hut or shed remote from inhabited houses as directed in
Additional Mufnssal Regulation 17 (page 46) (G.O., No. 1090-P., dated 17th September
1898). The cost of sheds constructed in Cantonments should be borne by the
Cantonment funds. (P.O. No. 802, dated 25th November 1898),
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6, and who may be unable to procure necessary accommodation
for themselves.
Explanation.—Any certificate given under this Regulation
should contain an accurate description of the person named in
it to prevent, so far as possible, its being used by another
person.
3. When, in any building or place within a municipality,
town or village, there is a person suffering or suspected to be
suffering from the bubonic plague, or to have so lately suffered
from the plague as to be in an infectious state, or likely from
recent contact with plague cases to have been infected or to be
in an infectious state, or believed to have recently arrived from
an infected area, the Collector or any officer appointed by him,
generally or specially in this behalf, may enter and inspect such
person and building or place, and either—
(a) remove such person to one of the places of accom-
modation provided under the preceding Regulation
2, and in such place or in some other place so
provided to which at the discretion of the Medical
officer in charge he may from time to time be
removed, there detain and treat him until he shall
be certified by the said medical officer to be free
from infection, or
(b) take measures for segregating and detaining such
person in his own house or in some other suitable
place, if, in the opinion of the Medical officer in
charge, the person can be there treated with no
greater risk of spreading the infection, than if
he were removed to a place provided under the
preceding Regulation 2.
Provided that no person segregated or detained under this
Regulation shall leave the place of segregation or deten-
tion except with the written permission of the officer in
charge, who may take such steps as may be necessary to
enforce this prohibition.
4. * Any building or place which is required for and is, in
the opinion of the District Medical and Sanitary officer or the
medical officer deputed by him in this behalf, suitable for the
purpose of the accommodation to be provided under Regulation
2, may be entered † upon and occupied by the Municipal Council
* As amended by G.O., No. 1374-P., dated 25th October 1898; Notification No. 901,
Fort St. George Gazette, dated 1st November 1898, Part-I-A, page 12.
† Note.—This provision obviates the necessity for taking action under the Land
Acquisition Act (G.O., No. 940-P., dated 29th August 1898; P.C., No. 1002, dated
14th April 1899).
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or the President of the District Board, as the case may be, or a
person deputed by him in this behalf (if unoccupied without
any notice whatsoever, and if occupied after twenty-four hours'
notice in writing conspicuously posted on such house or build-
ing) and may be used for the purposes of the accommodation
under Regulation 2 ; and the owner or the lessee of such building
or place shall not be entitled to anything beyond a reasonable
rent for the period during which the ground or building may
remain in the occupation of the Municipal Council or the Col-
lector and President of the District Board, as the case may be :
provided that the Municipal Council or the Collector and Presi-
dent of the District Board, as the case may be, shall be bound
at the cost of the municipality or the district board, as the
case may be, thoroughly to cleanse and disinfect the ground
or building and, if a building, to whitewash it internally and
externally before vacating it.
5. When any building or place is, in the opinion of the
Collector or an officer generally or specially authorized by him
in writing in this behalf, so overcrowded as to make the inmates
or occupiers specially liable to an attack of the bubonic plague,
the Collector or officer authorized as aforesaid may, by a notice
posted on some conspicuous part of the building or place, require
the owner or occupier, if actually residing in the building or
place, or the tenants or the actual occupants thereof, to abate, as
prescribed in the notice, the overcrowding within twenty-four
hours by reducing the number of lodgers, tenants or other
occupants of the said building or place, and, in default of
compliance with the requisition in the said notice, may sum-
marily eject all the inmates or occupants, or reduce the number
of the same in such manner and to such extent as may appear
necessary; and the owner or occupier or the tenants or the
inmates of such building or place shall not be entitled to claim
any compensation on account of such ejection.
6. When a building or place has, in the opinion of an officer
appointed in this behalf, been so infected with the plague as to
render its further occupation a source of danger to the inmates
thereof, the Collector or an officer generally or specially author-
ized by him in writing in this behalf may summarily cause
such building or place to be vacated and thoroughly cleansed
and disinfected ; and the said officer may cause the inmates of
such building or place to be detained and segregated in such
place as he may appoint for a period not exceeding ten days
from the date of the occurrence of the last case of plague among
such persons; and the building or place shall not be re-occupied
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until, in the opinion of such Medical officer, it is safe to be
re-occupied.
In like manner, if it appears to the said officer that, in view
of the prevalence of the plague within his jurisdiction, any
building within such jurisdiction, intended or used as a dwell-
ing, is in so insanitary a condition as to be unfit for human
habitation, he may summarily cause the same to be vacated, and
prohibit, by a written order, the further use of such building as
a dwelling. After such prohibition no owner or occupier of
such building shall use or suffer the same to be used for human
habitation until the said officer gives written permission in this
behalf.
The owner or the occupier or the tenants or actual inmates
or occupants of any building or place dealt with under this
Regulation shall not be entitled to claim any compensation on
account of anything done thereunder.
7. The Municipal Council or the Collector, and President of
the District Board, as the case may be, shall provide suitable
conveyances for the free carriage, to a place provided under
Regulation 2, of persons suffering, or suspected to be suffering,
from the plague, and for the transport of any clothing, bedding
or other articles which have been exposed to infection.
8. If it shall appear to the Collector or an officer deputed
by him in this behalf that the water in any well, tank or other
place is likely, if used for drinking, to engender or to cause
the spread of the plague, he may by public notice prohibit the
removal or use of the said water.
9. If the Collector of the district or an officer generally or
specially authorized by him in writing in this behalf is of
opinion that the destruction of any hut or shed is necessary to
prevent the spread of the plague, the Collector or such officer
as aforesaid may summarily take measures for the destruction
of such hut or shed and the materials of which it is con-
structed ; and the Chairman of the Municipal Council or the
President of the District Board, as the case may be, may in his
discretion grant compensation, but no person shall be entitled
to claim it of right, for any loss or damage caused by reason
of such destruction, out of the Municipal fund constituted under
Madras Act IV of 1884 or the Local fund constituted under
Madras Act V of 1884, as the case may be.
10. No owner, driver or person in charge of a public con-
veyance shall carry any person suffering from the plague ; nor
shall any person suffering from the disease enter a public
conveyance.
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11. No person shall let, or show for the purpose of letting,
a building or part of a building in which he knows, or has
reason to know, that a person has been suffering from the
plague, without having such building or part thereof, and every
article therein likely to retain infection, disinfected to the satis-
faction of the Medical officer appointed by the Collector in this
behalf.
12. The Collector or an officer generally or specially author-
ized by him in writing in this behalf may, when he considers
necessary, enter upon any premises, whether situated in a
municipality or not, at any time during daylight and summarily
execute any work required under, or summarily abate any of
the nuisances described or indicated in sections 186, 220, 221
and 228 of the District Municipalities Act, 1884, or sections
99 and 101 of the Local Boards Act, 1884.
18. The Collector of the district may, in his discretion,
order the disinfection or destruction of any collection of rags
in rag-pickers' houses and rag-stores or of second-hand gunny-
bags imported from any part of India infected by the plague;
and no person shall be entitled to claim compensation for any
loss or damage sustained by him by reason of the disinfection
or destruction of such articles under the powers conferred by
this Regulation.
The Collector of the district may also, by an order in
writing, authorize generally or specially any Magistrate or any
Chairman of a Municipal Council to exercise the power of
disinfection vested in the Collector of the district by this
Regulation.
14. At or near any railway station appointed by notifica-
tion in the Fort St. George Gazette as an inspection station, any
Medical officer appointed in this behalf may detain any train
and may require any person travelling therein to alight and
submit himself to medical examination as the Medical officer
may direct, and may for this purpose, with the assistance, if
necessary, of the police, using such reasonable force as may be
required, detain such passenger either on the railway premises
or in some other suitable place which the Collector shall, if
necessary, provide at the expense of the Municipal or Local
fund, as the case may be ; and, if the said person is suffering
from or suspected to be suffering from the bubonic plague, or
to have so lately suffered from the plague as to be in an
infectious state, or likely from recent contact with plague cases
to have been infected or to be in an infectious state, the Medical
officer may deal with him under the preceding Regulation 3,