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(6) " Police Cordon B. "
This is the cordon for the " Waiting Camp " and the work of the Police
on this duty is to take over from Cordon A all who hold the " Β " passes for the
waiting camp and to see that they are lodged there, also to see that no one leaves
the waiting camp without pass " C " signed by the Medical Officer of the camp.
Temporary shelter is necessary also for these sepoys on Cordon B, as above
described.
(7) "Bazars"
No one should be allowed by pass or otherwise to go from an infected town
to any neighbouring village Bazar, nor should any outsiders be allowed to come
to the infected town for its Bazar. If supplies run short it is easy enough to
have them brought and deposited at Police Cordon A, the Mámnlatdár or his
deputy being sent for to see the supplies taken over by the local Bunniah and
to prevent dispute, and, what is more, contact between the local people and the
outsiders.
This arrangement works quite satisfactorily, and even the transfer of grain
from one set of carts to another on the boundary is carried on without difficulty
on the high road, where we have an observation camp between Kolhápur and
Karád.
(8) " Plague Hospital."
A special hospital for plague cases is generally placed to leeward of the
town and about half a mile from it, with the usual staff and arrangements which
I need not enter into here.
(9) " Standing camp for segregation and accommodation of persons while
thier houses arc being disinfected."
In addition to the special hospital for plague cases it is necessary to have a
standing camp of matting huts on open ground not far from the town or village,
so that if the epidemic is very severe some portion of the inhabitants, say a
streetful at a time, can be taken out there while their houses are being disinfected
and aired. This camp also answers the purpose of a segregation camp for families
who have had the plague amongst them. If any one is attacked with plague in
this encampment he is taken to the hospital, and the matting hut in which he
was is promptly burnt, and another erected for the remainder of the family on
another piece of ground.
The Police Cordon A can always be thrown back a little in order to enclose
this encampment.
(10) "Notice in Gazette legalizing the above measures in lieu of procla-
mation."
Speaking from experience, I consider that to attempt to lay clown the above
rules in a town by proclamation is a mistake. A proclamation of the kind only
creates a panic, and gives the agitators the opportunity they want of making
false representations to the ignorant classes as to the intentions of Government.
People soon find out the rules for themselves if they are allowed to do so
quietly, and they quietly submit to them, and it is only necessary to impress
upon the officials in authority that warning and not punishment is all that is
required for a first attempt at infringement of the rules.
There can be no successful infringement, or very little, if the measures are
properly and tactfully carried out by the authorities, and though perhaps these
measures would not be feasible in all their entirety in a large city, yet a good
deal can be done on the same principle, however large the infected area may be.
6. As an instance of the practicability and success of these measures
in a small town of 5,000 inhabitants, I may mention the case of Manerájuri.
Plague broke out there on 12th February last. Measures were at once taken and
the same night a Police Cordon (A) was placed round the village. Had the Chief
of Ichalkaranji, to whom the village belongs, dealt fairly with us there might
have been no more plague, because in other places it has been stamped out at
once, but he allowed 40 odd fresh cases to occur without making any report, and
thus the disease gained a footing and it has been difficult to eradicate it,
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