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9. When a case of plague occurs in camp, the people in immediate contact should be
moved to the segregation hut. The hut in which the case occurred should be thoroughly
fumigated and disinfected. The cooking and drinking utensils should be washed out with
some disinfectant.
10. Before leaving the camp the clothes should again be sterilized, if time permits.
11. The supply of water should be carefully supervised; the drinking water to be
boiled. A guard should be placed over the well or water-supply to prevent pollution.
(7) —BURIAL.
A plague corpse is a focus for infection, more especially if it is a case that has died out of
hospital. All religious rites and ceremonies should therefore be curtailed as much as possible.
The body should be wrapped in a cloth which has been soaked in carbolic lotion (1 in 40)
or perchloride of mercury lotion (1 in 1,000). All handling or touching of the corpse should
be discouraged, except by these accustomed to carrying out the last offices of the dead, and these
should be given facilities for cleansing their hands afterwards in some antiseptic lotion.
The grave should be 7 feet deep.
If a number of bodies are buried together, it is advisable that quicklime should be freely
used.
The ground used for burial purposes should be light and porous, to ensure that air and
moisture may freely pass through. The burial ground should be well away from any water
supply.
The orifices of the body, mouth, nose, &c., should be stuffed with cotton-wool or tow that
has previously been soaked in perchloride of mercury solution.
Every attempt should be made by local authorities to get satisfactory death certificates
accompanying each corpse : no plague operations can ever be complete without this. These
should be collected at the burial or burning grounds for statistical purposes.
(8).—DHOBIS.
Very strict supervision should be kept over Dhobis, as their profession frequently brings
them into contact with clothing which may be infected. In any case Europeans should see that
all their clothes are washed in their own compounds when plague exists in the neighbourhood.
Government Resolution No. 1160 of 4th March deals with this question in Sind only.
(9).—NATIVE SERVANTS.
The native servants' quarters of European houses should be inspected and their sanitary
condition attended to, and afterwards frequent visits made to them to see that no plague-stricken
refugees are hidden in them. The owners of these houses should be requested to carry this
out for their own benefit and safety. It is very little trouble to take temperatures of all servants,
daily. Results will repay trouble.
(10).—SUGGESTED PRECAUTIONS FOR TROOPS EMPLOYED ON PLAGUE WORK.
Segregated in suitable camp.
Sober men to be chosen.
Clothes to be changed on return from plague duty ; the suit that has been worn to be
hung up in the sun.
Daily inspection of working parties by a Medical officer ; these with signs of fever or debi-
lity to be struck off work.
Hands and face to be inspected for abrasions.
A good breakfast to be supplied before starting work.
Arrangements should be made to provide a midday meal in cases where the men cannot
return to camp for this meal.
Putties should be worn to prevent the dust from infected houses coming in contact with
the legs.
It should be impressed on the men that a fruitful mode of infection is through abrasions
on the skin, and all such should be reported at once to the Medical officer.
A supply of carbolic lotion, 1 in 40, should be sent with each search, whitewashing, and
demolition party, and after work the men's hands should be swilled over with this preparation.
Disinfectants should be freely used in the camp.
The whitewashing and disinfecting parties should be warned not to enter an infected
house, if possible, before at least some preliminary disinfection has been carried out,