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B(8).
Rules for Segregation of Contacts.
Definition of terms :—
(1). A " contact " means a person who lias lived or is living in the same
room or part of a dwelling with another person attacked by plague, or who has
visited or waited upon such person.
NOTE.—Public officials visiting infected dwellings on duty are exempted from this definition.
(2). A "Public Segregation Camp " means a camp or place established for
the segregation of "contacts" or of travellers suspected of having been exposed
to infection.
(3). A " Private Segregation Camp " means a camp, house, or other place
approved by the Plague Committee or the District Medical Officer for the purpose
of the segregation of " contacts. "
(4). A " District Medical Officer " is a qualified medical man serving under
the Bombay Plague Committee, who is for the time being in charge of a district
of the City of Bombay.
In any room where a person has been attacked with illness so suspiciously
like Plague that the case has been sent to hospital, the family who live in the same
room must be kept under medical observation till the Hospital Authorities declare
whether the case is, or is not, one of Plague.
If the Hospital Authorities declare the case to be Plague, the members of the
family living in the same room, who have not accompanied the patient to the
Hospital, must, under the special conditions stated below, be considered to be
contacts, and taken to a Segregation Camp :—
(a) On occurrence of a case of Plague in a small house or dwelling, all the
contacts are to be removed to a Segregation Camp, public or private, as may be
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directed by the -p lague Authority--
(Z>) In the case of a seizure in a large chawl, unless several attacks occur in
different parts of the building, it will not usually be necessary to segregate the inmates
of more than from one to three rooms. But in other cases it will be essential to
empty a storey, or even the entire building, and to segregate the contacts in
Public Segregation Camp or, under the special permission of the Committee, in a
Private Segregation Camp.
(c) In large private houses or hotels the occurrence of a case or two of Plague
may, in the first instance, be treated (after the isolation, in an Hospital, of those
attacked) by segregating the Contacts in other parts of the same building, or in
buildings, tents, or huts immediately adjoining the infected house, or within the same
enclosure. But with a further spread of the disease complete evacuation of the suite
of rooms, or the storey, or the whole building (as may be thought necessary), to-
gether with segregation of the inmates and other Contacts, is to be carried out.
(d) With the written consent of the Bombay Plague Committee or of
ltS a Kngte^uitfi^^0 01 *> ^^ P rov ided that they remain segregated and otherwise
comply with the orders from time to time issued by the said Committee or by
the ~SSufSrtf^ the ini »ates of large or isolated private houses or hotels of
the better class among those above-mentioned [Clause (c)], and situated in fairly
healthy localities, will be permitted to pass the period of segregation in a Private
Segregation Camp. In the absence of an approved Private Segregation Camp, the
inmates, and other Contacts, of all such dwellings will be removed to a Public
Segregation Camp.