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No family received more than 8 annas without special sanction. All healthy men in receipt
of rations were put on camp fatigue duty under the supervision of the European soldiers.
Blankets, cots, and utensils were issued to those who were without these articles. The water-
supply was obtained from two stand-pipes, supplemented for washing and disinfecting purposes
by bhistis. The drainage of the camp was excellent, the ground having a marked slope. The
conservancy arrangements were adequate,—the men using the two public latrines provided; the
women and children, the private privies in the courtyards. Disinfectants were freely used.
Both on admission and on discharge, each person was disinfected, together with his personal
effects. Huts in which plague cases had occurred were dismantled. The matting was destroyed,
and the frame wood-work and floor soused with phenyle or perchloride of mercury. Four days
were allowed to elapse before re-building. Subsequently, when matting became scarce, it was
no longer destroyed, but soaked in a disinfecting solution and exposed for four days to the action
of the sun, after which it was again utilized without any evil effects. The inmates of an infect-
ed hut were again disinfected and commenced a fresh period of detention. The duration of the
latter was invariably ten days. Registers of admissions and discharges, in which all necessary
details were posted up, were kept, and certificates of discharge and disinfection were given to persons
leaving the camp. Occasionally, inmates of the camp were allowed to leave it under a pass for
the purpose of procuring money or of cleaning up their houses.
Hyderabad Detention Camp.
34. The detention camp at Hyderabad was situated near the railway station and was
opened on 10th March. The last occupants were discharged on
the 15th June. Until May 20th. when the health camp was
closed, this camp was used solely for the detention of the inmates of infected houses. Subsequent
to that date, a portion of it, provided with a distinct water-supply and capable of entire isolation,
was turned into a health camp. Altogether 130 huts were built, a few of which, however,
replaced others which had been burnt down. The huts were built on the same pattern as those
in the health camp, bat were smaller, the average cost being only Rs. 45. In April the roofs
were strengthened, and in May some of the huts were mud-roofed. The full establishment was
as follows :—
2 European soldiers.
1 Police Havildár.
6 Police Constables.
1 Hospital Assistant.
3 Munshis.
1 Modi.
3 Peons.
2 Bhistis.
2 Dhobis.
8 Sweepers.
The water-supply was derived from taps and a neighbouring well. The drainage was
excellent, the camp being divided into three portions by intervening nálas. The number of
admissions was 1,124. Two deaths from plague occurred, and 17 cases were sent to hospital.
In other respects the arrangements were precisely similar to those that existed in the health
camp, with the exception that only under very special circumstances were passes granted, the
inmates remaining under police escort all the time they were away from the camp.
Gidu Health Gamp.
35. The Gidu Health Camp was opened on the 20th March and closed on the 10th June,
It was situated on cultivated and not very well drained ground
between Gidu village and the new railway line. The camp was
purely a Health Camp, the inmates of infected houses being sent to the detention camp at
Hyderabad. The number of admissions was 3l.l. Three deaths from plague occurred and
one case was sent to hospital. The establishment was as follows :—
1 Police Dafadár.
4 Police Constables.
2 Munshis.
2 Peons.
1 Dhobi.
1 Bhisti.
3 Sweepers.
Surgeon-Captain Jones had charge of the camp until the middle of April, then it was placed
under Surgeon-Lieutenant Evans, assisted by the Hospital Assistant of the Gidu Dispensary.
Mukhi Sukhramdas' Camp.
30. Mukhi Sukhramdas' Camp was latterly used purely as a residential camp, and
differed but slightly from the numerous camps established by
various comrminities on the banks of the Fuleli, its distinguishing·
features being that it was partially constructed by Municipal agency and that it was under
Dr. Jones' direct supervision. The camp was opened on March 23rd, and at first consisted of
45 huts, unprovided with courtyards or cook-houses. It was at that time occupied by 166
persons, chiefly of the Mochi caste, but after the construction of the kacha brick lines, it was
used as residential quarters and remained in occupation for a period of nearly two months.
The total population amounted to 256.
Accommodation for office estab-
lishments.
37. Although scarcely falling under the head of segregation camps, it may be well to
mention in this connection the arrangements made for the accom-
modation of the Government office establishments during the time
when their residence in the city was scarcely practicable. A camp
was formed close to the old Jail consisting of 30 huts, erected at a total cost of Rs. 2,800.
This camp provided accommodation for the Collector and the District Judge's office establish-
ments. Separate arrangements were made for the members of the Assistant Collector of
Nausháhro's office, for whose accommodation four huts, costing Rs. 200, were built on a site
temporarily granted by the Cantonment authorities.