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2. First and second class passengers will usually be exempt from detention.
But the Inspecting Medical Officers are empowered, at their discretion, to detain
such persons from infected areas travelling by first or second class, especially such
as they may reasonably believe would usually travel third class.
ΝοτΕ.—This would include, for instance, those persons who, in order to evade detention, change from
third to first or second claaa at an intermediate station.
3. Surveillance passes may be granted to applicants of assured respectability
and position, and provided that the headman or one of the leaders of the community
or communities to which such persons belong (on direct personal knowledge or after
special satisfactory inquiry) stands surety for them and undertakes that they will
return to the camp for medical inspection when, and as often as, they may be required
to do so ; and provided also that such persons show no suspicious symptoms. If
inmates let out of camp on surveillance fail to appear and produce the members of
their party at any of the times appointed by the Chief Medical Officer of the camp,
the sureties of such inmates will be posted as defaulters, and the continuance of
the concession of surveillance will be endangered.
It follows that all leaders should take such zealous and intelligent interest in
each candidate as to prevent the risk that the candidate will incur on failing to
carry out his undertaking, and the surety, equally with the defaulter, be involved in
disgrace attendant thereon.
4. In accordance with Government Resolution No. 5391/3495 P., dated 5th October
1897, Government officers on duty and their servants shall be passed without deten-
tion, provided they shew no signs of illness.
5. Holders of certificates from Plague Authorities or Authorised Medical
Officers in infected areas, stating bearer to be free from exposure to infection for a
period of ten days immediately preceding his departure, will be exempt from
detention.
6. Servants of any European or leading Native will be exempt from detention
under the following conditions :—
(a) The holding of a certificate in accordance with Rule 5.
(b) The holding of a certificate from the Secretary of the Bombay Plague
Committee to the effect that the traveller has agreed—
(1) To have all servants placed under medical supervision at his house
for ten days after their arrival in Bombay.
(2) To have their clothes washed and disinfected within 24 hours after
arrival in Bombay.
NOTE Such certificate should be shewn to the Medical Inspecting Officer at the Railway Station and
retained by the holder.
DISINFECTION.
7. The clothes and baggage of those detained in camp must be subjected to
thorough disinfection before the owners are discharged from the camp.
At the discretion of the Chief Medical Officer of the camp, unclean persons
shall be bathed ia a disinfecting fluid.
tí. Rations to the value not exceeding 4 annas per dienv will be supplied by
Government to such persons as depend on each day's wage for a livelihood and whose
havings do not represent more than a few days' sustenance. But those who are
cup-able of paying for their own subsistence will be required to do so. With these
objects a shop supplied with the necessary articles will be maintained within the
camp.