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and accordingly the causeways leading from Bombay to the island of Sálsette were
closed at night from March 24th, and all travellers were examined by medical
men as they passed through in the day time.
9. At the end of April it was arranged that up trains should be examined
at Kalyán and Pálghar Stations, where the large outward inspections were already
being held under the orders of Government. Passengers by local trains were
examined at Kurla and Bándra, and it was arranged that the through up
trains by the G. I. P. Railway should not take up passengers between Kalyán
and Bombay except at Thána, where arrangements were made for inspecting
them before they entered the trains. The outward arrangements were also
put under the Committee at the stations of Kalyán and Pálghar about the same
time.
10. The inward sea traffic was examined from April 1st, the necessary
additional staff being placed under the orders of Surgeon-Major MacCartie,
Port Health Officer.
Quarantine.
11. As the plague decreased in Bombay it became more severe in other
places, especially in the Kolába District and at Cutch-Mándvi. In the case of
arrivals from all ports other than ports in the Kolába District and Cutch, only those
whose temperature was abnormal were detained under observation. Arrivals
from ports in Kolába were detained for 5 days, whether they had fever or not ;
those from Cutch for 8 days. For their reception large camps were built at
Náriel Wádi, Reay Road, Wári Bandar : the Malet Bandar pilgrim shed was also
borrowed for this purpose. Some communities provided their fellow-castemen
with the necessaries of life during their detention ; other persons were provided
with uncooked food and the means oí cooking it, and arrangements were made
for the different castes to have their cooking places separate. From March 1st
to June 30th (for the Port Health Officer had been keeping an eye on the
inward traffic before the Plague Committee's scheme was ready), 57 plague
cases were detected by the inward sea-traffic inspection, 258,684 persons were
examined, and about 5,000 passed through the observation camps. The largest
numbers of cases came from Karachi, Cutch, and Kolába District.
Aid to other places.
12. At the end of April, by which time the Plague Committee had a large
and well trained staff and equipment, the Collectors of Thána and Kolába were
advised by Government to consult the Bombay Plague Committee as to the mea-
sures to be taken in hand in their districts. The Collector of Thána merely asked
for a few gangs of coolies who understood disinfecting work. These were
promptly supplied. The Collector of Kolába was in need not only of a disinfect-
ing staff, but of the materials for equipping hospitals.
13. In the Kolába District it was important to get the disinfection of all
the plague-infected places completed before the rains. Five experienced In-
spectors and large gangs of coolies under the management of Chief Inspector
Atkinson were despatched to the district, and completed their operations well
within the time. Surgeon-Captain Collins, who was deputed to supervise the
plague work in this district later on, reports : "The benefits to the district of
this thorough cleansing are incalculable. All the towns that were in a very filthy
condition have now been brought to a condition of average cleanliness."
14. Besides the staff lent to the Collector of Kolába, Surgeon-Lieutenant-
Colonel Wilkins, D. S. O., who had been in charge of No. 5 District under the
Committee in Bombay, and a staff of four nurses and two medical subordinates,
were despatched for duty in Cutch-Mándvi on 27th April, at the request of His
Highness the Ráo of Cutch. Additional medical men, nurses, labourers, dis-
infectants, and ambulances were sent as soon as they could be spared from
Bombay.