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In the case of Karáchi, it was arranged that the passengers who entered the
train at the city station should be examined as they entered the train, the car-
riages then being locked up. Persons who booked from the cantonment station
were examined at the entrance gate. In March a lady doctor was engaged to
attend the evening and morning mail train for the examination of females. A
certificate was to be given to the effect that every passenger in the train had been
inspected, and found free from suspicion of plague. By the middle of the month
the arrangements for a platform inspection at Karáchi and Dádu were complete
and a Commissioned Officer was deputed for the duty at each place. The Civil
Surgeon, Hyderabad, was also asked to make a platform inspection at that place
before the departure of the train for Rohri. The rules legalising these arrange-
ments were sanctioned by Government. Under these arrangements no passenger
could escape being examined twice during the journey from Karachi to Sukkur.
SECTION 3,
Further measures taken under Act XII of 1897 for the purpose of
controlling Sea Traffic.
1. The measures for the protection of Karachi and Aden have already been
described. The inspection of all vessels before they were allowed to leave the
port of Bombay was under the management of the Port Health Officer of
Bombay. In Chapter II the action of Government in the matter and the
provision of the necessary staff have been dealt with.
2. In the meantime the state of the city of Karáchi had become such as to
make it necessary to provide for the inspection on similar lines of all vessels
leaving that port. Accordingly on February 15th the following rules were
issued :
1. No vessel shall leave the port of Karáchi until she has been inspected by
the Health Officer of the Port and the Master or person in charge οf such vessel has
obtained a Bill of Health or certificate from such officer that the Master or person in
charge, officers, crew and passengers (if any) of such vessel are free from any dangerous
epidemic disease.
2. Should the Health Officer of the Port be of opinion that any person on board of
any vessel so inspected is suffering from a dangerous epidemic disease, he shall refuse
to give a Bill of Health or certificate as aforesaid unless and until such person is
removed from the vessel.
3. After the Master or person in charge of the vessel has obtained any Bill of
Health or certificate under the provisions of these rules, no person or cargo shall be
admitted or taken on board such vessel before she leaves the Port of Karachi unless
such vessel is again inspected by the Health Officer of the Port and another Bill of
Health or certificate obtained from such officer by the Master or person in charge of
such vessel.
4. No port clearance shall be delivered to any vessel unless and until the Master
or person in charge thereof shall produce the Bill of Health or certificate so to be
obtained as aforesaid ; and it shall be the duty of Customs Officers to refuse delivery
of the port clearance without the production of such Bill of Health or certificate.
5. All steamers and square-rigged vessels will be inspected by the Health Officer
before leaving the wharves or moorings, and all coasting craft shall anchor between
and to the west of No. 1 mooring and deepwater point for the purpose of being medi-
cally inspected by the Health Officer of the Port on the eve of their departure.
6 Vessels not leaving port within 24 hours after receiving pratique may not
leave without re-inspection. The date and hour of his inspection will be noted in the
Bill of Health by the Health Officer.
7. The medical inspection of vessels and passengers shall be carried out between
sunrise and sunset.
8. Disobedience to any of the above Rules Nos. 1 to 6 will subject the offender
and all persons aiding or abetting him to a prosecution under the Indian Penal Code.
3. It remained to give the district officers powers to examine and, if
necessary, detain persons arriving from Bombay by sea at the ports in their
districts,