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A bath, with some phonyle in it, on return from work is desirable. Sea-bathing to be
encouraged.
Drinking water and milk to be boiled before use.
The wearing of thick gloves by the whitewashing and demolition parties would be a
useful precaution.
A carbolic acid gargle should be supplied to the men when on work. It is generally
difficult to make them use it, but every man should have the opportunity of preventing his
infection as far as possible.
Olothes should not be sent to the dhobi until disinfected. This applies especially to coats
and trousers. Several cases of disease have been traced to this source of infection.
(11).—RESUMÉ OF GENERAL RULES UNDER EPIDEMIC ACT.)
(No. 1728—1201-P., dated 29th March 1897.
(3) Plague Authority may detain travellers by rail or sea.
(4) May detain person leaving infected area.
(5) May appoint inspecting officers for roads.
(6) Notification of sickness or death.
(7) Detention and examination of persons in same house as sick or dead.
(8) Power to treat any death as due to plague.
(9) Removal of sick and segregation of probably infected.
(10) Shutting up plague house.
(11) Overcrowding in houses.
(12) Insanitary houses.
(13) Burn plague huts.
(14) Route of funeral and place of burial.
(15) Assessing property and compensation.
(16) Police assistance.
(19) Disinfection of persons and belongings.
(20) Stoppage of caste feasts and fairs.
(21) Notification by medical men.
(22) Persons on demand to give names and addresses.
(23) Disinfection at funeral.
(24) Examination of road travellers.
(25) Observation camps outside villages.
(26) District Magistrates may make restrictive measures.
(27) Make holes in walls and remove roofs.
(28) Evacuation of an infected locality.
(29) Prevention of intercommunication bet ween places.
(30) Care of food and drink.
(31) Prohibits unauthorized removal of plague cases.
(32) Prosecution under Section 188, Indian Penal Code.
To Medical Officers.—Rats' spleens sent for diagnostic purposes should be taken from
as freshly dead animals as possible. A small bottle of alcohol should have some cotton-
wool placed in it and the spleens then dropped in. If no alcohol is at hand, a 1 in 2,000
corrosive sublimate solution should be used. Send to Joint Plague Commissioners,
Secretariat, Bombay.
4. As regards local inspection in the Mofussil it may be observed that
this duty would under ordinary circumstances have been entrusted to the Sanitary
Commissioner and the five Deputy Sanitary Commissioners of the Presidency.
The former officer, however, though he was able to make occasional visits to
plague-infected places and indeed gave valuable advice from time to time,
was for the greater part of his time fully employed on work at famine relief
camps. Of the five Deputy Sanitary Commissioners, one was employed on
famine and other duty in the southern part of the Presidency ; another, Surgeon-
Captain Lloyd Jones, was stationed in Poona city and was engaged in searching
houses both before and after the constitution of the Poona Plague Committee ;
a third, Surgeon-Captain Arnim, was confined to Karachi city, being appointed
a member of the Plague Committee for that place; a fourth, Surgeon-Captain
Dyson, was given charge of plague operations in the highly-infected town of Bulsar