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the districts—Incidence of expenditure—Allocation of expenditure
between local funds and general revenues—Temporary grants—
Rules of the Government of Bombay—Expenditure incurred by
Plague Committees—Allocation of expenditure between the
Government and Railway Administrations—Amount of expendi-
ture—Expenditure in the Bombay Presidency in 1896-97—
Estimate for 1897-98—Estimate for April and May 1897—
Revision of the estimate for 1897-98 with reference to the re-
crudescence of plague—Loans under the Local Authorities
(Emergency) Loans Act—Sums advanced by the Government
of Bombay to Plague Committees and other authorities—Oper-
ations carried out at particular plague centres—Poona—Measures
taken before the appointment of a Plague Committee—General
organisation of the operations of the Committee—Appointment
and constitution of the Committee—Position of affairs at the
time of the appointment of the Committee—Division of the city,
employment of troops and outline of principal measures—Assist-
ance of the military largely utilised—Volunteers from the troops
—Plague duty camp—Total number of troops employed—Un-
founded accusations made against the troops—Good conduct
of the troops—Opposition encountered—The populace excited to
thwart the authorities—Malicious rumours set afoot—Murder
of Mr. Rand and Lieutenant Ayerst—Arrest of a person on
suspicion—Prosecution
for sedition and conviction of
the proprietor of the Kesari newspaper—Detection of plague
cases—Search parties—Division of the city—Method of
search—Search
parties accompanied
by
ladies—Help
given by native gentlemen—Difficulties in the way of the search
—Attitude of the people except the Brahmins on the whole
friendly—Results—Search by municipal officers—Improvement
of death registration—Officers posted at burial and burning
grounds—Treatment of the sick in hospital—The Sassoon General
Hospital and the General Plague Hospital—The
private
Muhammadan Hospital—Construction and accommodation—
Management—Number of cases—Value of the hospital—Hindu
and Parsi private hospitals—Systematic segregation of inmates
of infected houses—Arrangements for the removal of persons to
be segregated—Objects of segregation—The General, Muham-
madan, Cantonment, and Parsi segregation camps—Number of
persons segregated and number of plague cases amongst them—
Cleansing and disinfection of infected houses—Disinfecting and
limewashing parties—Preliminary arrangements—List of houses
to be disinfected—Method of disinfection—Cleansing and lime-
washing parties—Method of procedure—Work done by the
Municipality—Payment of compensation—Careful arrange-
ments to prevent poor people from suffering loss—General
sanitary precautions—Improvement of sewage and conservancy
arrangements—Appointment of inspectors—Work done—Poona
Cantonment and Suburban Municipality—Kolaba District—
Report by Dr. Collins—General arrangements—Visit of the
Bombay Plague Committee—Limewashing and disinfecting of
all towns in the district—Difficulties in dealing with the people—
Good effects of segregating healthy inmates of infected surround-
ings—Cutch-Mandvi—Report by Dr. Wilkins—Beginning of the
epidemic—Desperate situation—Help sent from Bombay—
Detection of cases—Search parties—Difficulties in dealing with
the people—Ambulances—Death registration—Treatment of the
sick in hospital- Five plague hospitals—Hospital staff—De-
scription of the hospitals—Evacuation of infected houses and
quarters—Voluntary and compulsory evacuation—Failure to
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