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Contents.
infected portions of the town—Camps—Attitude of the people-
Disinfection—Increase in subordinate establishments—Disinfect-
ing gangs—Grain stores—Guard—Plague among monkeys-
Pilgrimage—Temporary stoppage of railway booking—Decline
of the epidemic—Khandraoni—Position of affairs at the time the
epidemic was discovered—Evacuation of the village—Classifica-
tion of inmates—Arrangements in the hospital and segregation
camps—Food supply—Roll call—Support and comfort of inmates
—Harvest—Arrangements for guarding the camps—Cleansing
and disinfection of the village—Measures to prevent the spread
of infection to surrounding villages—Daily reports from neigh-
bouring villages—Return of emigrants from Khandraoni—Arrivals
from Bombay—Absentees in Bombay—Directions to villagers of
the neighbourhood—Inspection of neighbouring villages—Ex-
tinction of the epidemic—Mortality—Breaking up of camps—
Compensation
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CHAPTER X.
MEASURES TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF INFECTION BY LAND.
Proposals made for land quarantine and the stoppage of third class rail-
way traffic—Objections to land quarantine—Previous experience
in India—Statement of objections—Dresden and Venice Conven-
tions on the subject of land quarantine—Objections to the stoppage
of third class railway traffic—Alternative precautions prescribed
by the Government of India—Proposals of the Government of
Bombay for the enforcement of local land quarantine—Objections
to local land quarantine—Modification of the general rules issued
by the Government of Bombay on the subject of land quarantine
—Rules to control egress from infected localities issued by the
Government of Bombay in October 1897—Remarks of the Gov-
ernment of India—Restricting the movement of people not the
main object—Protection of the Surat District against Daman—
Original strict quarantine—Cordon of the Salt guard—Relax-
ation of the rules—Observation post and camp on the frontier—
Passage of goods into Daman—Guarding of the cordon line—
Additional precautions—Further history of the stoppage of third
class railway traffic—Sukkur—Rohri—Baluchistan—Proposals
made during the recrudescence—Inspection of railway passengers
—Early arrangements in Bengal, the North-Western Provinces,
and the Central Provinces—Co-operation with railway authorities
—Orders issued by the East Indian and the Bombay, Baroda
and Central India Railway Administrations—Instructions issued
by the Government of India to the Government of Bombay—
Arrangements made by the Government of Bombay and by the
Central Provinces and Ajmere Administrations—Extension of the
first arrangements—Arrangements on the East Indian Railway—
Arrangements in the Bombay Presidency, at Ahmedabad, in the
Punjab, the Central Provinces, Madras, and Rajputana—Precau-
tions against Karachi—Orders issued by the Government of India
—Arrangements in Sind—The Punjab Conference, and orders
issued by the Local Government—Arrangements in the North-
Western Provinces, and in Baluchistan—Extension of the arrange-
ments after the passing of the Epidemic Diseases Act—Clause of
the Epidemic Diseases Act relating to the examination of travel-
lers—Orders issued by the Government, of India—Appointment