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PART I.—Allowances of Officers deputed to Plague Duty—cont.
Class of officers.
B. Medical officers
wholly employed
on plague duty —
cont.
Particulars.
(ii) Commissioned officers in
civil employ.
(iii) Senior military assist-
ant surgeons with the
honorary rank of
Captain or Lieutenant.
(iv) Military
assistant
surgeons in civil or
military employ on
pay exceeding Rs.
150.
(v) Military
assistant
surgeons in civil or
military employ on
pay not exceeding Es.
150.
(vi) Civil assistant surgeons.
(vii) Civil apothecaries
(viii) Hospital
assistants
employed as plague
inspectors.
(ix) Hospital
assistants
engaged on other
plague duty.
Allowances.
i
Rs. 5 a day.
Rs. 5 per diem, together with
house-rent allowance (in lieu
of free quarters) of Rs. 50 a
month.
Rs. 3 a fin addition to any
day.
acting, charge or
house
allowance
they may
have
been drawing at the
time of their depu-
Rs. 2 a
tation to plague duty
day.
and which they
would have conti- 1
nued to draw but
for such deputation,
Rs. 2 a day.
Rs. 25 a mouth or in the case of
men, who at the time of their
deputation were in independ-
ent charge, the full charge
allowance of their grades.
Vide appendix II-S.
* Rs. 10 a month. This allow-
anee will be in addition to
house -rent or free quarters
according to rule, if employed
on the plains. If employed on.
the hills, a consolidated hill
allowance of one-third of the
pay will be paid, but no house-
rent or warm clothing allow-
ance will be admissible. A.
pony allowance of Rs. 15 per
mensem will be paid i£ the
hospital assistant has other
than purely stationary duties,
provided a serviceable pony
is maintained and used.
* This allowance will be admissible irrespective of the fact whether the hospital
assistant was in receipt of a charge allowance or not at the time of his deputation to
plague duty. No separate allowance will, however, be paid in lien of charge allowance
nor can deputation allowance be drawn in addition.
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PART I.—Allowances of Officers deputed to Plague Duty—cont.
Class of officers.
C. Medical
officers,
doing
plague
work in addi-
tion to their
ordinaiy duties.
D, Plague
super-
visors belong-
ing to the salt,
abkári and other
departments.
E. Compounders on
ambulance staff.
Particulars.
1) * † Commissioned
officers.
(2) * † Medical subordi-
nates»
(3) Nurses or midwivcs.
(i) Appointed in non-
municipal areas.
(ii) Appointed in munici-
pal towns,
Allowances.
† Such local allowance, not
exceeding one-fifth of the
salary, as may be fixed in
each case by Government.
The allowance should be
given only to officers whose
additional plague work, such
as that of medical inspection
of passengers by road or
railway, is entirely separate
from, and outside the sphere
of, their ordinary duties and
nob to officers whose ordinary
and legitimate work, such as
that of attending on the sick
in hospital, has been in-
creased owing to the occur-
rence of plague.
Allowance of 25 per cent, of the
pay + Rs. 30 fixed travelling
allowance + Rs. 15 horse allow-
ance, provided the permanent
pay + 25 per cent, thereof
does not fall below Rs. 80.
Same as in the case of D (i), but
minus the fixed travelling
allowance.
Allowance of 20 per cent, of the
salary to be granted only when
the ambulance staff is on active
plague duty.
* An allowance of one-thirtieth of a month's pay may bo drawn by a port health
officer for every day certified by the port officer to be a day of bad weather on which he
is unavoidably required to inspect a vessel in connection with plague. In the ease of the
port of Madras this allowance may be drawn only in case of inspection of vessels lying
outside the Madras harbour. A double allowance, two-thirtieths, may be drawn by a
port health officer when he is required to make this inspection involving special risk
on a Sunday or close holiday, but in no case shall any port health officer draw any
additional allowance whatever may be the number of inspections made by him on that
day.
† Sec note ‡ on page 89.
‡ When the out-door plaguo work of a medical subordinate is so heavy as to
necessitate the use of a conveyance, carts or jutkas may be provided for him by the
local body concerned. The actual charges incurred in the payment of hire should be
debited to " Contingencies."
NOTE.—(i) The instructions issued in G.O., No. 384, Financial, dated 16th June 1904,
as to the creation of temporary appointments and the grant of deputation allowances
to servants employed on plague duty should be carefully followed.
(ii) The language allowance of Rs. 2 per mensem granted under article 244 of
the Civil Medical Code is in admissible in the case of hospital assistants on plague duty.
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PART II.—Salaries of Officers temporarily entertained for Plague Duty.
Designation
A. Retired commis-
sioned medical
officers.
B. Temporary
English.
doctors.
C, Retired military
.assistant
surgeons.
D. Uncovenanted
medical
officers.
E. Temporary civil
assistant
surgeons.
F. Private hospital
assistants.
G. Retired hospital
assistants.
Salary.
Rs. 500 a month (in addition
to their pensions which will
continue to be a military
charge).
Rs. 500 a month or such
salary as may he fixed in
their agreements with the
Secretary of State.
Pay of their grade at the
time of retirement +
Rs. 100 allowance subject
to a maximum of Es. 350 a
month. In special cases
the local Government may
raise the limit to Rs. 500.
A retired honorary com-
missioned officer of the
Indian Subordinate Medi-
cal Department is entitled
to double first-class travel-
ling allowance by rail, and
eight annas a mile by road.
Such pay not exceeding
Rs. 350 a month as the
Surgeon- General may find
necessary, with travelling
allowances to and from the
places to which they are
posted at the rates of
double second-class fares
for journeys by rail and
annas 4 a mile for journeys
by road.
Pay Es. 100 a month +
allowance of Rs. 2 a day,
with travelling allowance
to and from the place to
which they are appointed.
Pay assigned to the corre-
sponding grades of hospital
assistants in Government
service [ + 50 per cent.
thereof
with compen-
sation for quarters.
Pay of their grade at the
time of retirement (in
addition to their pension).
Remarks.
The officer must have retired
before 1st April 1898, and his
re-employment must be either
on plague duty or in a post
which cannot be filled, in the
ordinary way by reason of the
officers, who would, in ordinary
course, be available for it,
being required for plague duty.
The appointment requires the
previous sanction of the
Government of India.
The officers should be required to
produce certificates of physical
fitness, and their appointments
should, in the first instance, be
made for periods not exceeding
six months.
The term of employment may,
subject to their good conduct
and efficiency, be for a period
of three months, the engage-
ment being terminable after
the expiry of the first two
months by a written notice
given by either the Govern-
ment or the officer.
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PART II.—Salaries of Officers temporarily entertained, for Plague Duty—cont.
Designation.
H. Lady
nurses
obtained from
England.
J. Qualified
Euro-
pean, Eurasian
or
Native
nurses locally
recruited.
K. Private gentle-
men appointed
as •
plague
supervisors in
municipal
towns.
L. Private
gentle-
men appointed
as
plague
supervisors in
rural areas.
M. Plague inspec-
tors —
N. Other temporary
subordinates
including
menial servants
Salary.
(a) Rs. 175 a month in
addition to free quar-
ters, fuel, lights and
punkahpullers, com-
mencing from date of
• embarkation to India ;
(b) double first-class fare by
rail when travelling on
duty ;
(c) first-class passage when
proceeding' by steamer
from one part of India
to another on duty.
Such pay not ordinarily
exceeding Rs. 75 a month
with free quarters or KB.
10 for house-rent.
Rs. 2 a day + Rs. 15, horse
allowance.
Rs. 80 pay + Rs. 30, fixed
travelling allowance, +
Rs. 15, horse allowance.
[As in Appendix II-S.]
Such rates as would be
sufficient to induce persons
to take up the appoint-
ments.
Remarks.
If free quarters are not provided,
an allowance of Rs. 3 a day
should be paid.
When the nurses attend on
plague patients, a boarding
allowance of Rs. 1-8-0 a day
in the case of Europeans and
Eurasians, or one rupae in the
case of natives should be paid.
When employed on duties en-
tailing a considerable amount
of moving- about within a
limited area and necessitating
the frequent hiring of vehicles,
they may be paid actual con-
veyance allowances
irres-
pective of the five miles' limit
prescribed in article 1055 of
the Civil Service Regulations.
For terms on which caste
native nurses may be trained,
see G.O., No. 1835-P., dated
23rd December 1899.
Such supervisors should usually
be Europeans or Eurasians.
They need not be appointed
unless the outbreak of plague
requires a special organization
to deal with it.
......
Menial servants are not eligible
for any allowances, and should
be conveyed from place to place
at the cost of Government.
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APPENDIX II-S.
[See Rule 141 011 page 52.1
"PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF PLAgUE INSPECTORS
Plague inspectors will be—
I. Certificated sanitary inspectors ;
II. Hospital assistants ; or
III. Men specially trained for plague duty.
I.—Certificated Sanitary Inspectors.
Certificated sanitary inspectors are those who have the qualifi-
cations prescribed in the rules published under G.O., No. 1131 L., dated
llth September 1903.
Plague inspectors for range work should primarily be recruited
from this class. A list of men available for duty will be kept by the
Sanitary Commissioner by whom they will be posted for plague work
on the requisition of and in constatation with Collectors. When once
an inspector has been posted, further control on the part of the Sanitary
Commissioner will cease, and he should not
27th September 1905. be withdrawn or transferred by the Sanitary
Commissioner without the consent of the
authority employing him and in the case of a local fund official whose
appointment is pensionable without the sanction of Government.
Pay and Allowances.
The pay and allowances of a certificated sanitary inspector on
plague duty will be regulated as follows :—
(i)
(iii)
(iii)
(iv)
When employed as a
range inspector in a
rural area.
When employed as a
disinfection inspector «
in a rural area.
When employed as a
divisional inspector in.
a municipality.
When employed as a
disinfection inspector
in a municipality.
Rs. 45 pay + Rs. 15 pony
allowance.
Rs. 45 pay.
When travelling on duty
a daily allowance of As. 8
under article 1063 of the
Civil Sevvico Regulations.
Rs. 40 pay + Rs. 15 pony
allowance.
Rs. 40 pay.
When, employed in
the municipalities
of
Ootacamund,
Coonoor or Kodai-
kánal, or in rural
areas in the Nilgiris,
he will be entitled
to draw a hill allow-
ance of one -third of
the pay.
NOTE.—A Government servant transferred ,to local fund or municipal service for
employment as a plague inspector will draw his permanent pay plus 25 per cent.
thereof, provided that the aggregate is not less than Rs. 35 and not greater than Rs. 45,
as well as the allowances admissible under this part of the appendix for the class of
duties performed.
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//,—Hospital Assistants.
II. The allowances of a hospital assistant employed as a plague
inspector will be as follows : ordinarily the services of only third-class
hospital assistants should be used for range work :—
(a) Third-class hospital assistants—
(i)
(ii)
When employed as a
range inspector in a
rural area or as a divi-
sional inspector in a
municipality.
When employed as a
disinfection inspector
in a rural or municipal
area.
(b) Hospital assistants of
other than third
class.
Rs. 40 pay † a pony
allowance of Rs. 15 or a
cycle allowance of Rs. 5 †
Rs. 10 special plague *
allowance.
Rs. 40 † Us. 10 special |
plague* allowance.
Grade pay † Rs. 10 special
plague * allowance. A
pony allowance of Rs. 15
per mensem may be paid
if the hospital assistant
has other than purely
stationary duties, provided
a pony is maintained aud
used.
If employed on the
hills the hospital
assistant will be
entitled to draw a
consolidated
hiu
allowance of one-
third of the pay, but
no house-rent or
warm
clothing
allowance will be
admissible.
III.—Men specialty trained for plague duty.
These are men who are selected locally by the Collector for training
and after being trained specially for plague duty by the Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner receive certificates from the latter as to their
fitness for employment as plague inspectors. Their pay and allowances
will be regulated as follows :—
(i) (a) A member of the permanent establishment in superior
service, whether belonging to the Revenue or other branches of the
Government service, employed as a range inspector in a rural area will
draw a minimum pay of Rs. 35 plus a pony allowance of Rs. 15. But
when employed as a disinfection inspector in a rural area he will draw
only a minimum pay of Rs. 35 : no pony allowance will be granted,
but when travelling on duty a daily allowance of As. 8 under article
1063 of the Civil Service Regulations may be drawn.
(b) A member of the permanent establishment in local fund
or municipal service employed as a plague inspector in a rural area
will draw in addition to his salary in such service only a deputation
allowance in accordance with the rules issued in G.O., No. 384,
Financial, dated 16th June 19004, plus a pony allowance of Rs. 15 per
mensem, if employed as a range inspector, or a daily allowance of As. 8
when travelling, under article 1063 of the Civil Service Regulations, if
employed as a disinfection inspector.
(c) A private person employed as a plague inspector in a rural
area will draw such pay not exceeding RS. 30 as the Collector in his
* The special plague allowance will be admissible irrespective of the fact whether
the hospital assistant was in receipt of a charge allowance or not at the time of his
deputation to plague duty. No separate allowance will, however, be paid in lieu of
charge allowance nor can deputation allowance be drawn in addition.
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discretion may fix plus a pony allowance of RS. 15, or a daily allowance
of As. 8 when travelling, according as he is employed as a range
inspector or as a disinfection inspector.
NOTE.—(1) A pay in excess of Rs. 35 can be granted to Government servants only
if admissible under article 753 (iv) (a) of the Civil Service Regulations.
(2) All plague inspectors employed in the Nilgiris will be entitled to
draw a consolidated hill allowance calculated at one-third of their pay.
(ii) In the case of a person specially trained who is employed on
plague duty in a municipality or a union the pay shall not ordinarily
exceed the following scale : —
(a) Range Inspector.—Rupees 25 for a charge of about 5,000
inhabitants (or 1,200 houses).
Rupees 30 for a charge of about 6,500 inhabitants (or 1,500
houses).
When employed in the Coonoor, Ootacamund or Kodaikánal
Municipality he will be entitled to draw a hill allowance of one-third
of the pay plus a pony allowance of lis. 15 per mensem.
(6) Divisional Inspector.—Rupees 40 plus Rs. 15 pony allow-
ance.
When employed in the Coonoor, Ootacamund or Kodaikánal
Municipality he will be entitled to draw a hill allowance of one-third
of the pay.
(c) Disinfection Inspector.—A range or divisional inspector
appointed as a disinfection inspector will draw the pay he received as
range or divisional inspector and no special allowances will be granted
for doing disinfection work.
(iii) A member of the permanent establishment in the superior
service of Government who is specially trained for plague duty, will be
paid the following emoluments when employed as a plague inspector in
a municipality or union, subject to the maximum rates prescribed in
clause (ii) :—
(1) When employed as a range inspector, a minimum pay of
RS. 25 per mensem.
(2) When employed as a divisional inspector, a minimum pay of
Rs. 30 plus a pony allowance of Rs. 15 per mensem.
(3) A pay in excess of the limits mentioned in clauses (1) and
(2) can be granted only if admissible under article 753 (iv) (a) of the
Civil Service Regulations.
(iv) A member of the permanent establishment in local fund or
municipal service who is specially trained for plague duty and employed
as a plague inspector in a municipality or union, will draw in addition
to his salary in such service only a deputation allowance, in accordance
with the rules issued in G.O., No. 384, Financial, dated 16th June 1904.
A pony allowance of RS. 15 per mensem will be granted to him if he is
employed as a divisonal inspector.
NOTE.—The instructions issued in G.O., No. 384, Financial, dated 16th June 1904,
as to the creation of temporary appointments and the grant of deputation allowances
to servants employed on plague duty, should be carefully followed.
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APPENDIX II-T.
List of Plague Charges.
[See Rule 153 on page 59.]
PROVINCIAL—INDIRECT.
3. LAND REVENUE—Charges of District Administration,
General Establishments —
Salaries.
Establishment.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
Sub-divisional Establishments —
Establishment.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
(1) Cost of additions to office
establishments of revenue officers
necessitated by plague.
(2) Pay and allowances of tem-
porary additions to the revenue
staff necessitated by plague.
15. POST OFFICE — District Post Charges.
Establishments.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
(3) Additional post establish-
ments for serving plague camps.
18. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION — Civil Secretariats.
Chief Secretariat —
Establishment.
Local and Municipal Depart-
ment —
|
Establishment.
(4) Extra establishment required
for dealing with plague correspond-
ence.
19-A. LAW AND JUSTICE — COURTS OF LAW — Criminal Courts.
Charges of Stationary
Sub-
Magistrates.
Special Sub-Magistrate.
Temporary Establishment.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
(5) Court required in conse-
quence of plague
20.POLICE.
Presidency Police.
District Executive Force.
Railway Police.
(6) Additional police employed
in consequence of plague.
24-A. MEDICAL — Medical Establishment.
District Medical and Sanitary
Officers —
Allowances.
Reserve Medical Subordinates —
Allowances.
(7) Extra allowances on account
of plague of medical officers and
subordinates performing plague
duties
in addition to ordinary
duties.
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24-C. MEDICAL—Sanitation and Vaccination.
Sanitary Department —
Establishment,
(8) Extra establishment employed
in the office of the Sanitary Com-
missioner in connection with plague
work.
30-0. STATIONERY AND PRINTING.
Government Press
...
...
(9) Cost of printing passports and
passes at the Government Press.
PROVINCIAL—DIRECT.
24-D. MEDICAL—Grants for Medical Purposes.
Salaries —
Salaries of Plague Commis-
sioner, gazetted medical
officers and military officers.
Plague allowances oí gazetted
medical officers and military
officers.
Salaries of subordinate medical
officers.
Plague allowances of subordi-
nate medical officers.
Exchange compensation allow-
ance.
House-rent allowances.
Local allowances.
Establishments —
Allowances—
Tentage of officers.
Travelling
allowances of
gazetted officers.
Travelling allowances of non-
gazetted officers and estab-
lishments.
Supplies and Services —
Petty construction and repair
of buildings.
Contribution to private hos-
pitals.
Dieting charges.
Cost of instruments, medicines
and disinfectants.
Hospital clothing and bedding.
Other hospital equipment and
necessaries.
( 10) Pay and allowances of medi-
cal officers and subordinates includ-
ing clerks and passport-issuing
officers exclusively employed on
plague duty in connection with the
inspection and observation of travel-
lers by sea and by railway and the
segregation and medical treatment
of such as are affected or suspected
to be affected with plague, at sea-
ports, or at railway stations notified
as railway inspection stations in the
Fort St. George Gazette.
(11) Temporary establishments
entertained for the purposes men-
tioned in No (10).
(12) Grants for the construction,
etc., of private plague hospitals.
(13) Cost of construction of sheds
and cost of medical stores, disinfect-
ants, carbon paper, etc., required
strictly for the purposes specified in
No. (10).
(14) Pay and allowances of mili-
tary officers whose services are form-
ally placed at the disposal of the
Civil Department for employment
on plague duty and of clerks and
servants attached to them wher-
ever they may be employed.
(15) Pay and allowances of
Government officers other than those
mentioned in items Nos. (10) and
(14) whether belonging to the
Indian Civil Service, Forest, Survey,
Customs, Salt or other departments
specially deputed by Government
for employment in connection with
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Contingencies —
Tour charges.
Service postage.
Do. telegrams.
Purchase of furniture.
Repairs of
do.
Office expenses.
Miscellaneous.
plague measures, and clerks and
servants attached to them; also the
emoluments of medical men and
nurses procured from Europe and
clerks and servants attached to them.
(16) Extra allowances on account
of plague of military officers and
men who remain on the strength of
their regiments though detailed for
plague duty, and all extra expendi-
ture due to their deputation if (in
the case of men only) their services
are utilized for purposes mentioned
in No. (10).
The extra allowances on account
of plague of military officers
are
debitable to provincial, whether they
are engaged for purposes mentioned
in No. (10) or not.
24-A. MEDICAL — Medical Establishment.
District Medical and Sanitary
Officers' establishment —
Establishments.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
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(18) Additions to the office estab-
lishment
of district medical and
sanitary officer.
24-B. MEDICAL — Hospitals and Dispensaries.
Salaries.
Establishments.
Allowances.
Supplies and Services.
Contingencies.
(19) Extra expenditure in exist-
ing hospitals and dispensaries due
to plague.
24-C. MEDICAL — Sanitation and Vaccination,
Sanitation and Conservancy —
Establishment.
Allowances.
Supplies and Services.
Contingencies.
(20) Additions to the existing
sanitary staff for plague work.
LOCAL— INDIRECT.
18-J. GENERAL ADMINISTRATIONS — General Establishment of Local Funds.
Establishments.
Allowances.
Contingencies.
(17) Extra establishment em-
ployed in local fund offices.