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The duty of this Police Cordon is—
(i) to allow no one to go out of the town without a pass.
(ii) to see that holders of pass " a " have no luggage or families and
are bonâ fide cultivators.
(iii) to hand over those who show pass " b " to the other Police Cordon,
Β for escort to the ""Waiting Camp."
In addition to this cordon there should be Police Stations at one or two
miles along the principal thoroughfares according to the features of the country,
the place for the Police Stations to he approximately a little beyond where
travellers would be obliged to strike the road. Each of these police posts to
consist of three men.
(3) "Passes."
Passes should be of three kinds, pass a for bond fide cultivators who must
be allowed to go to their fields, signed by the Mámlatdár or his deputy.
If the cultivators have luggage and families with them, their pass " a " is
cancelled, and they must go back and get pass "b".
Pass " b " is for persons who desire to go to the waiting camp for ultimate
departure, to be signed by the Mámlatdár or his deputy.
Pass "c" for persons who have done their 10 clays in the waiting camp,
to be signed by the Medical Officer in charge of the waiting camp.
Holders of pass c are free to go where they like, so long as they do not go
back to the town.
(4) " Rough register of inhabitants."
To facilitate matters, rough registers may be made of the inhabitants in
sections, and a kind cf roll-call taken by each section morning and evening. In
this way the authorities know who are absent, and unless the family can account
for any absentee he will be searched for and brought back.
(5) Camp of detention or "Waiting Camp."
The waiting camp should be a mile from the town m the direction of the
station, if there is one, or along the principal road.
It should be built in echelon for purposes of ventilation, and should have
proper accommodation in proportion to the size of the town, say for 200 people,
if the town is of 10,000 inhabitants. There should be a grain-dealer and a
vegetable seller on the premises to sell food, and a Hospital Assistant in charge.
The camp should be built in two blocks. Block A for persons in, whose families
plague has not occurred, and Block B for persons in whose families plague has
occurred.
Jf any case of plague occurs in Block A, all who may be in the same hut
should be transferred to Block B, and kept there 10 clays from the date of the
last attack. The actual plague patient, of course, being removed to the plague
hospital on the other side of the town, see sub-paragraph (8).
It does not seem to be desirable to supply food gratis in a waiting camp,
because detention there should be regarded as a compulsory obstacle to desertion
and flight rather than as an attractive change of residence.
For those who remain in the town it is useful, as I have found in Cutch
and elsewhere, to get up some forni of general amusement once or twice a week
during the epidemic, not only to divert the people, but also to empty the town
of them for a few hours at a time. An energetic Manilatdar can do a good
deal, if he advertises properly and encourages the people, in the way of getting
up ploughing matches, cart races, bullock or pony races, foot races for men and
boys and school children, wrestling matches, &c., &c., and if he can offer some
small prizes for each event, the attraction brings hundreds of people out of the
town for an afternoon, and in the meantime the air in the streets and houses
has a chance of circulating.