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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
he 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 pre-
ceding 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
or the President of the District Board, as the case may be, or a
person deputed by him in this behalf (if untenanted without
any notice whatsoever, and if tenanted 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
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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
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
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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.
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.
13. 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
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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.
Any such medical officer or person acting under his imme-
diate orders may also demand of any person so travelling, his
name, his usual abode and particulars of the places in which he
has resided or which he has visited during the preceding fifteen
clays, and also the address to which he is about to proceed, and
any other particulars which the medical officer may think fit, in
view of satisfying himself as to the likelihood of the said
person's spreading the infection of the plague. A person so
interrogated shall be bound to answer truly to the best of his
knowledge and belief all such questions and enquiries. If any
such person is found to have, within the preceding ten days,
been within a part of India believed by such medical officer to
be infected by the plague, and is unable to satisfy such officer
that he is proceeding to any fixed place of residence, such
officer may remove him, or cause him to be removed, to a place
provided under Regulation 2, and may there cause him to be
detained for ten days, when, if he is certified free from the in-
fection of the plague, he shall be permitted to depart therefrom.
14-A. If the place at which an inspection is held under
Regulation 3 be a railway station, and if no suitable accommo-
dation for plague cases has been provided in the neighbourhood
of such station, the officer making the inspection may require
that a passenger who is found to be suffering from, or suspected
to be suffering from, the plague, or to have so lately suffered
therefrom as to be in an infectious state, or likely from recent
contact with plague cases to have been infected or to be in an,
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infectious state, be carried on by the railway administration in
a railway compartment vacated for the purpose to the nearest
inspection station or other place where such accommodation is
available.
15. Any person disobeying or contravening or refusing to
submit himself to any Regulation made under the Epidemic
Diseases Act, 1897, or obstructing any measure which has
been taken by Government, or which any authority, or officer
appointed under competent authority to carry out such Regula-
tion, has been required or empowered to take under any such
Regulation, shall be deemed to have committed an offence
punishable under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code, and
shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment of either descrip-
tion for a term which may extend to six months or fine which
may extend to one thousand rupees or both.
16. The inspecting medical officer at an inspection station
notified under Regulation 14 may require any passenger who
may have been medically inspected to deliver up his ticket in
order that some mark indicative of his having been inspected
may be impressed thereon; and such passenger shall be bound
to deliver it up accordingly.
* 17-i. Every person arriving from any place declared to be
infected with plague shall, before leaving the railway station
at which he has alighted, or before disembarking from the •
steamer, ship or boat in which he has travelled, or in the case
of arrival by road either immediately on reaching a Road
Frontier Inspection Station or within twelve hours from the
time of arrival at any other place, obtain from the officer men-
tioned in Regulation 17-ii a passport binding him to present
himself for daily inspection for the next ten days before the
local authority of the town or village where he may be; and
he shall be bound so to present himself.
Provided that, where it appears desirable, the Municipal
Chairman or any Revenue officer not below the grade of
Deputy Tahsildar may, by endorsement on the passport,
exempt any person from personal attendance and permit him
to be inspected at his residence.
Explanation.—By a "local authority" is meant any of the
following officers:—
(a) The local medical officer;
(b) The station-house officer;
(c) The headman of the village.
* As revised by G.O., No. 466-P., dated 13th May 1898; and Notification No. 444,
Fort St. George Gazette, dated 27th May 1898, Part I-A, page 137.
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In places where there is more than one local authority,
the duties prescribed in these rules shall be performed by, or
with the permission of the Collector under the orders of, the
officer who stands first in the order given in this explanation.
17-ii. The following officers are authorized to issue pass-
ports :—
(a) To travellers alighting at rail-
way inspection stations.
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(b) To travellers alighting at rail-
way stations included within
municipal limits.
(c) To travellers alighting at other
railway stations.
(d) To travellers arriving by
steamer, ship or boat.
(e) To travellers arriving by road.
The medical officer in charge or
other officer acting under his
orders.
Such Medical, Sanitary or other
officer as may be appointed by
the Chairman with the Col-
lector's approval.
The Stationmaster or other officer
appointed by the Collector for
the purpose.
The Medical, Sanitary or other
officer appointed to examine
such travellers.
The Medical, Sanitary or other
officer appointed to examine
such travellers, or, if no such
officer has been appointed, the
local authority of the place of
arrival.
17-iii. Every person so arriving from a plague-infected place
shall declare truly his name, address, and such other parti-
culars as may be required by the officer issuing the passport
and shall report forthwith to the local authority any change
in his place of residence occurring within ten days from the
date of arrival. On the expiry of ten days, he shall deliver
up his passport to the local authority of the place where he
may then be.
17-iv. The issue of a passport, or any change in the residence
of the person to whom it has been granted, shall immediately
be communicated by the officer issuing it (in the former case)
or by the local authority (in the latter case) to the Municipal
Chairman or the Local Authority of the place of destination.*
If the local authority of the place of destination is not known,
the intimation shall be sent to the Tahsildar concerned for
transmission to the local officer by whom the traveller has to
be observed. The communication may be made by a post
card, or by a special messenger, or in any other manner which
the Collectors concerned may determine. The telegraph need
be used only in urgent cases.
* This rule applies whether the place of destination is in British or Mysore territory.
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Intimation of departure to any railway station in the
Province of Mysore shall, however, be telegraphed to the—
(a) Assistant Surgeon on plague duty, Yesvantpur,
when the destination is a station on the Mysore State
Railway;
(b) Residency Surgeon, Bangalore, when the destina-
tion is a station within Mysore Province on the Madras
Railway.
17-v. The local authority of the place of destination shall see
that, on the arrival of the traveller, he is observed daily for
ten days. Any case of illness or death in the house in which
such traveller is or has been residing shall be forthwith
reported to the immediate superior of the local authority with
full details. After ten days the passport shall be recovered •
from the traveller and sent to the Tahsildar.
Any officer of the Revenue Department, not below the
rank of Deputy Tahsildar, may require that the person or the
clothing and other effects of the traveller shall be disinfected
in such manner as may be ordered by the Collector.
17-vi. The headman of every village shall keep himself
promptly informed of the arrival of every person from an
infected area without a passport and shall deal with him as
in the preceding clauses of this Regulation to which such
person shall be bound to submit himself.
17-vii. A register shall be maintained by each local
authority in the following form :—
(1) Date of receipt of intimation.
(2) Name of traveller.
(3) From what infected 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 Tahsildar.
17-viii. In the case of persons passing through a Railway
Frontier Inspection Station, the medical officer in charge shall
arrange to record the following information in respect to
every traveller from an infected area, who is not detained by
him under the provisions of Regulation 14 and to send it
without delay—if possible by the railway guard of the same
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or next train—to the District Medical and Sanitary Officer of
the district * to which such traveller is proceeding:—
(1) Date of arrival.
(2) Name of traveller.
(3) Father's name.
(4) Caste.
(5) Age.
(6) Whence coming.
District.
Taluk.
(7) Destination and residence during Village,
the next ten days.
Street.
Number or name of the
owner of the house.
17-ix. In the case of other persons coming from an
infected area, the duty of recording the above information
and communicating it to the District Medical and Sanitary
Officer shall devolve on the officer issuing the passport.
17-x. The District Medical and Sanitary Officer shall
forward the report referred to in Regulation 17-viii and ix to
the Tahsildar concerned, whose duty it shall be to see that the
persons therein mentioned are duly observed, and that any
case of sickness or death in the houses occupied by them is
promptly reported, and to bring to the Collector's notice all
instances of omission to issue passports or attempts to evade
this Regulation.
17-xi. Whenever the deaths reported from any village are
found to be more frequent than usual, or when any case of
fever with glandular swellings is reported, the Tahsildar with
the nearest Medical officer shall at once proceed to the village
and make inquiries with a view to ascertain whether plague
exists in the village.
17-xii. In municipalities, the Tahsildar's duties under this
Regulation shall be performed by the Municipal, Chairman.
The term " Tahsildar " includes Deputy Tahsildar.
18. If a passenger from any railway station referred to in
the last preceding Regulation appears to be attempting to evade
inspection at an inspection station by alighting at a station
short of that for which his ticket has been taken, the station-
master or railway official in charge shall insist on his continuing
his journey as far as the inspection station, either by the same
or the next following train, and may, with the assistance of the
police, take all such steps as may be necessary to compel him to
do so.
* Whether in British or Mysore territory.
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19. Any such passenger alighting at a railway station short
of an inspection station, who from his being unable to show any
business at the place of alighting appears to have so alighted
for the purpose of evading examination at such inspection
station, may be detained by the stationmaster at the railway
station at which he has alighted and be forwarded by the same
or the next train to the inspection station. The railway fare
of the person so detained and forwarded to the inspection station
shall Be paid by the passenger and, if not paid, shall be
recovered from him by the railway authorities as excess fare.
* 20. When any carriage from the Bombay Presidency or
from any infected area is detached from a train at any railway
station in the Madras Presidency, it shall be disinfected or
ventilated in the following manner as soon as possible and before
it is again brought into use : —
Third and intermediate class carriages—
The interior wood-work of the carriages, especially the
floors and Beats, shall be thoroughly washed with a solution of
perchloride of mercury (1 in 1,000) or with a carbolic acid
solution (a wine-glassful to a gallon) applied with a mop ; the
doors and windows shall be opened, and the vehicle exposed to
the air.
First and second class carriages—
The floors and wood-work shall be treated as above, the
cushions being also brushed and thoroughly cleaned.
* 20-A. Any railway carriage from which a passenger who is
suffering or suspected to be suffering from the plague has been
removed shall be detached at the nearest convenient station, and
shall be disinfected as follows :—
(i) The carriages, after being detached from the train,
should be thoroughly washed with soft soap and lime-water.
After an interval of two to three hours, this should be washed
off with plain water, and then the following disinfecting
solution should be thoroughly sprayed ail over the interior
as well as the exterior of the carriages by means of a
syringe :—
Corrosive sublimate
Hydrochloric acid
Water
½ oz.
... 1 "
... 3 gallons.
This solution should be allowed to dry on the car-
riages. Special care must be taken to direct the solution
into all the cracks and crevices and jilmills.
* As amended by G.O., No. 73-P., dated 22nd February 1898 ; and Notification No. 170,
Fort St. George Gazette, dated 1st March 1898, Part I-A, pages 63 and 64.