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Surveillance
or passport
rules.
Every
arrival from
an infected
or notified
area bound
to obtain
a passport
and place
himself
under
surveillance.
2, (1) Every person arriving, or suspected of having
arrived, from any place notified under the last preceding rule
shall, unless he is exempted under Rules 89 and 121 or unless
he already holds a passport or a permanent pass under Rules
82-84 or unless he has been detained for the full period of
incubation at a road or railway inspection station or in a plague
camp, before leaving the railway station at which he has
alighted, or before disembarking from the steamer, ship or boat
in which he has travelled, or in the case of arrival by road
either immediately on reaching a road frontier inspection station
or any town or village within an area placed under observation
under Rule 52 infra or within twelve hours from the time of
arrival at any other place, obtain from the officer mentioned in
Rule 3 infra a passport in the form shown in Appendix II-A
binding him to present himself for observation daily for the
next seven days before the local authority of the town or village
where he may reside or work ; and be shall be bound so to
present himself.
Definition of
" local
authority ".
(2) By a "local authority " is meant any of the follow-
ing officers :—
(a) The local medical officer.
(5) The station-house officer.
(c) The headman of the village.
(d) The karnam of the village.
(e) Any person appointed by the Collector of the
district for the purpose.
In places where there is more than one local authority, the
duties of the local authority shall, unless the Collector other-
wise directs, be performed by the officer who stands first in the
order given in this clause. In large towns, such as Madura,
Trichinopoly, Salem, etc., the duties of local authorities under
these rules should ordinarily be performed by a medical
subordinate and should not be left to any lower class of officer.
(3) Any person refusing to comply with or attempting to
evade this rule may be detained for seven days at the nearest
inspection station or other place appointed by the Collector for
the purpose in addition to being liable to the penalty prescribed
in Rule 100.
Panalty.
Note.—(1) This rule does not apply to passengers from a non-infected or non-notified
railway station who pass through an infected or notified railway station without breaking
journey at that station.
(2) Persons who make frequent or daily journeys from an infected to an
uninfeeted area may in lieu of passports be given general passes as laid down in Eule 84
infra.
(3) The Collector,¡or any plague officer or assistant plague officer not below the
rank of deputy tahsildar may, by written order, exempt any person from personal
attendance before the local authority. Exempted persons will be inspected at their
residence if the local authority considers inspection necessary or if superior authority
requires it. For the definition of plague officer and assistant plague officer see Rule 103.
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Passport-
issuing
officers.
3. The following officers are authorized to issue pass-
ports :—
(a.) To travellers alighting at rail-
way inspection stations.
(b] To travellers alighting at rail-
way stations included within <
municipal limits.
(c) To travellers alighting 'at other
railway stations.
(d) To travellers arriving by,
steamer, ship or boat.
(e) To travellers arriving by road.<
The medical officer in charge or
other officer acting under his
orders.
S
uch medical, sanitary or other
officer as may be appointed by
the Chairman with the Collector's
approval.
T
he stationmaster or other officer
appointed by the Collector for
the purpose.
r The medical, sanitary or other
officer appointed to examine such
travellers.
The medical, sanitary or other
| officer appointed to examine such
travellers, or if no such officer
¡ has been appointed, the local
authority of the place of arrival.
The Collector should arrange with, the railway authorities
at which stations the railway staff shall be required to perform
the duties connected with the issue of passports and at which
stations the Collector should make other arrangements. Station-
masters requiring forms or service postage stamps should apply
to the Collectors concerned, and should use the following
designation in franking covers containing correspondence
connected with their passport work—" Stationmaster and
Honorary Plague Passport-issuing officer."
Duties of
passport-
holders.
4, Every person required by these rules to take out a pass-
port shall declare truly his name, address, and such other
particulars as may be required by the officer issuing the
passport. He shall, unless exempted, for seven days from the
date of the issue of the passport, daily present himself with his
passport at the appointed time before the local authority of the
place where he may be for the time being, and shall daily
obtain that officer's signature on his passport in token of Ms
having so presented himself. If he becomes ill or if any
sickness occurs in the house in which he is or has been residing
during the said period of seven days, he shall give immediate
information of the same to the local authority. He shall report
similarly any change in his residence occurring within seven days
from the date of the issue of the passport, and if he changes his
residence, he shall, before departure, get the entries under head-
ings 11 and 12 of his passport altered by the local authority.
On the expiry of the said period of seven days, he shall deliver
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up his passport to the local authority of the place where he may
then be.
Intimation
of issue of
passports.
5. Every officer issuing a passport shall immediately send :
the triplicate copy of it by post, or by special messenger or in '.
any other manner which the Collector may direct, to the local
authority of the place of destination of the holder of the pass-
port. If the local authority of the place of destination is not
known, the triplicate copy of the passport shall be sent to the
tahsildar concerned for transmission to the local authority.
When the destination is beyond India, the triplicate should be
sent to the local authority at the port of departure from the
Madras Presidency. Intimation of the issue of the passport
need be telegraphed only in urgent cases.
Change of
residence
during
surveillance.
6. (1) The following procedure shall be followed in respect
of passport-holders who change their residence within the
Madras Presidency within seven days of their arrival :—
(a) The local authority of the original -place of arrival
shall send the triplicate copy of the passport to the local
authority of the new place of destination after noting therein
the number of days during which the passport-holder has been
observed.
(6) If the new place of destination is in another district,
the change of residence shall also be intimated direct to the
district medical and sanitary officer of that district and through
the tahsildar or municipal chairman concerned to the district
medical and sanitary officer of the original place of arrival.
The intimation should contain the following particulars :—
Passport number, date and station of issue.
Passport-holder's name and father's name.
How long observed and where.
New place of residence—district, taluq, village, street, and
number or name and occupier of the house.
The forms should be printed at the District Presses.
(2) When the destination is beyond India, the intimation
should be sent to the local authority of the port of departure
from the Madras Presidency.
Duties of
local
authority
or passport-
examiner.
7. The local authority of the place of destination shall keep
himself promptly informed of all arrivals from infected or
notified areas, shall report to higher authority every person
arriving without a passport, and shall see that, on the arrival
of a passport-holder, he is observed daily for seven days. Any
case of illness or death in the house in which such passport-
holder is or has been residing shall be forthwith reported with
full details to the nearest plague officer or assistant plague
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officer or to the nearest medical officer. Particular attention
should be paid to cases of fever accompanied with acute affec-
tion of the lungs, as these symptoms may indicate the existence
of pneumonic plague. The appearance of glandular swellings
even though attended by constitutional disturbance so slight as
not to prevent the patient moving - about, the occurrence of
abortion amongst women, of convulsions amongst children and
of sudden death in the aged should be regarded as suspicious
and should be reported. After seven days, the duplicate pass-
port shall be recovered from the passport-holder and sent to
the tahsildar or municipal chairman.
Register to be
maintained
by local
authority.
8. Every local authority shall maintain a register, which
may be in manuscript, in the following form :—
(1) Date of receipt of triplicate copy of passport or other
intimation.
(2) Name of passport-holder.
(3) From what infected or notified area arriving.
(4) Date of arrival of passport-holder.
(5) Number, date and place of issue of passport.
(6) How long kept under observation.
(7) State of health of the passport-holder and other persons
living in the house in which he is or has been residing.
(8) Date of departure if occurring within seven days.
(9) Destination.
(10) Date of despatch of triplicate passport to the local autho
rity of the place of destination, and of intimation to the
tahsildar or municipal chairman and district medical
and sanitary officer.
(11) Date of despatch of the duplicate passport to the tahsildar
and how despatched. If sent by messenger, Ms name
and time of his departure.
Persons
passing
through, a
railway
inspection
station.
9, In the case of persons passing through a railway
frontier inspection station, the medical officer in charge shall
record the following information in respect of every traveller
from an infected or notified area who is not detained by him
under the provisions of Rule 24 and shall send it without
delay—if possible by the railway guard of the same or next
train—to the district medical and sanitary officer of the district
to which such traveller is proceeding :—
(1) Date of arrival.
(2) Name of traveller (in full, including house-name and
caste-title).
(3) Father's name.
(4) Caste.
(5) Age and sex.
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(6) Whence coming.
(7) Railway station of destination.
(8) Number of railway ticket.
(9) Destination and resi-
dence during the{
next seven days.
District.
Taluq .
Village (or amsam and desam).
Street.
Number or name of the owner of
the house.
10, The foregoing rule does not require the maintenance
of a register. The information referred to should be recorded
in duplicate with the aid of carbon paper, a separate slip of
paper being used for each passenger, except in the case of the
members of a family proceeding to the same destination, when
their names may be entered in one slip. One set of copies
should be forwarded at once to the respective destinations and
the other kept for reference at the inspection station. No such
intimation is necessary in the case of persons exempted from
the passport rules under Eule 89 as the officers to whom they
are immediately subordinate are responsible for their observa-
tion ; but it should be forwarded in the case of inoculated
persons from infected areas who hold valid certificates, as they
are liable to be observed at their own houses. The intimation
forms will be supplied by the Superintendent, Government
Press, to Collectors on indent. If the guards of the trains and
other railway subordinates do not carry out the instructions
given to them with regard to the transmission of the names and
addresses of passengers, they may be prosecuted. The object
of sending intimation of arrivals from infected parts to the
district medical and sanitary officer is not merely to inform him
of the movements of such persons, but to enable him to see
that the passport-issuing officers, the local authorities, and the
tahsildars, respectively, carry out their duties under the pass-
port rules. He should maintain a register of all intimations
received by him and should see that all persons mentioned
therein are duly accounted for.
Intimation
in respect
of other
travellers.
11, In the case of persons coming from an infected or
notified area and not passing through a railway frontier inspec-
tion station, the duty of recording the information mentioned
in Eule 9 (excepting items 7 and 8) and of communicating it
to the district medical and sanitary officer shall devolve on the
officer issuing the passport. The form in which the informa-
tion referred to should be recorded is prescribed in Appendix
II-I.
Copies of the form are supplied by the Superintendent,
Government Press.
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Duties of
district
medical and
sanitary
officer and
tahsildar.
12, The district medical and sanitary officer shall forward
the reports referred to in Rules 6, 9 and 11 to the tahsildar
(or municipal chairman) concerned, within whose jurisdiction
the place of destination lies, and it shall be the tahsildar's (or
municipal chairman's) duty to see that the persons mentioned
in the reports are duly observed, and that any case of sickness
or death in the houses occupied by them is promptly reported,
and to bring to the Collector's notice all instances of omission
to issue passports and all attempts to evade these regulations.
The tahfiildar (or municipal chairman) should file together the
reports received from the district medical and sanitary officer.
No separate register need be maintained by him. As soon as a
passport is recovered from the passport-holder under Rule 7, it
shall be forwarded without delay to the district medical and
sanitary officer after the number of the item in the report has
been noted on it and after the fact that the passport has been
recovered has been noted against the corresponding entry in the
report.
Incapacitated
persons and
minors.
13. In the case of incapacitated persons and persons who are
under twelve years of age, the obligation to take out passports
for them, to present them for daily inspection, to report truly
their names and addresses, to intimate any change in their
residence, and, to comply otherwise with the requirements of
these regulations shall rest on their legal guardians or on any
person in whose charge they travel or who receives them at the
railway station of destination.
Tahsildar's
duties may be
performed by
municipal
chairman.
14. The term "tahsildar" in these regulations includes
deputy tahsildar. In municipalities, the tahsildar's duties
under these regulations shall be performed by the municipal
chairman.
Noie.—Rules 82—90 also relate to the subject of passports and should be referred to.
Notice in
railway
carriages
regarding
passports.
15. Every railway administration shall put up in a con-
spicuous place in every railway carriage a copy of the following
notice in English and in the principal vernacular language of
the country through which the railway line passes :—
Notice,
The Madras plague regulations require all passengers arriving
from plague-infected parts to take out passports at the station where
they alight, or
(1) in the case of passengers proceeding to Madras by mail trains
on the North-East Line and by the other lines of the Madras
and Southern Mahratta Railway, at Basin Bridge ;
(2) in the case of those proceeding to Madras by trains, other than
mail trains, on the North-East Line of the Madras and
Southern Mahratta Railway, at Ponneri.
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Persons infringing the regulations render themselves liable to
prosecution.
Copies of Rules 1— 4 shall also be hung up in English and
the vernacular in all railway stations.
Inspection
of railway
passengers.
16. (1) At or near any railway station which has been
appointed by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette to be
an inspection station, any medical officer appointed in this
behalf may detain any train and require every person travelling
therein to alight and submit himself to such medical examina-
tion as the medical officer may direct, and may for this purpose,
with, the assistance, if necessary, of the police, use such
reasonable force as may be required in order to detain such
passenger either on the railway premises or in some other
suitable place which the Collector shall provide for the
purpose.
(2) All inspecting officers, male and female, at railway
inspection stations, and clerks employed at important stations
such as Jalarpet should always carry with them a note-book of
a special conspicuous colour with the words " Government of
Madras Plague officials' note-book " printed on the back. A
copy of the appointment order should be attached to the
note-book. Copies of the book may be obtained from the
Superintendent, Government Press, through the Surgeon-
General.
17. Every passenger shall be bound to submit himself to
examination and shall furnish the information referred to in
Rule 9 supra and any other particulars which the medical
officer or any person acting under his orders may demand.
Any person refusing to comply with this rule may be detained
for such, period as may be necessary, and shall also be liable to
the penalty prescribed in Eule 100.
18. All passengers should be required to quit their
carriages and should be examined on the platform, or other
suitable place, suspicious cases being removed for more careful
investigation to a place reserved for the purpose. Care shall
be taken that the carriages are locked before the arrival of the
train at the inspection station, and that no passenger is
permitted to leave his carriage until the arrangements for such
examination are complete.
19. Railway administrations shall instruct their staff to
give every assistance to the medical officers conducting the
inspection in order to minimise the detention of the trains,
and to detain the trains until the medical inspection is over.
Railway ticket-collectors may be allowed to accompany the
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plague inspecting officers, if this course is found to economize
time. The table given in Appendix II-J shows the time
within which medical officers are required ordinarily to
complete plague inspection, and every endeavour should be
made to complete the inspection of trains within the time there
mentioned. If, on special occasions, the time is exceeded, a
report explaining the delay should be immediately sent to the
Collector for his information and for such action as he may
think necessary.
20. It is the duty of railway authorities assisted by the
platform police to see that passengers alighting at a railway
station do not leave the premises except by the proper exit,
and to afford every facility for the working of the plague-
regulations. Ticket collectors should be required to stop all
passengers holding tickets issued at infected or notified stations
until their names and addresses have been taken down and
passports issued to them either by the plague official appointed
for the purpose, or at smaller stations, by the station staff.
21. The inspecting officers shall not only thoroughly
examine passengers and passenger vehicles, but shall also
inspect guards, drivers and firemen and their vans and engines,
so that no person may escape inspection. No distinction shall
be made between railway employés and others, and before
any train, whether carrying passengers or goods, leaves the
inspection station, a thorough search shall be made to discover
if any persons have concealed themselves with the object of
evading inspection.
22. In the absence of any symptoms showing a passenger
to be suffering from fever, it is unnecessary to examine his
person for the purpose of finding out whether buboes are
present. This practice, if it is at present enforced anywhere,
should be discontinued.
23. Female passengers shall, under no circumstances, be
examined by men. "Por their inspection, one or more nurses
are attached to each inspection station.
24. After examination, all persons shall be allowed to
proceed to their destination except—
(a) those suffering from or suspected to be suffering
from plague, or those who have so recently
suffered from plague as to be possibly in an
infectious state ;
(b) those who have been in immediate contact with
a person suffering from pneumonic plague or
suspected pneumonic plague.
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Persons coming under class (a) shall be detained until they
are cured or as long as the infection or suspicion of plague
remains. Information of such cases shall be sent urgently to
the Collector and the district medical and sanitary officer of
the district. All contacts shall, after disinfection of their
clothing and effects, be furnished with passports and be per-
mitted to proceed with their journey, provided that the
inspecting medical officer shall have power to segregate in a
segregation camp for a period not exceeding seven days any
contact of a case of pneumonic plague.
Persons coming under class (b) may be detained at the
discretion of the medical officer till the full period of incubation
(i.e., seven days) has elapsed since they left the infected area,
or if that date is not known, for seven days.
25. Care should be taken that inspection stations are not
converted into detention camps. Any attempt at wholesale
detention will only produce evasion of inspection. Unless a
passenger shows symptoms of plague or has been in contact
with a case of pneumonic plague, he should not be interfered
with. This rule applies also to road frontier inspection
stations.
26. Officers in charge of a plague camp shall give a certi-
ficate in the form shown in Appendix ÍI-K to every person
discharged from the camp. In order to enable such persons to
resume their railway journey they shall take the certificates to
the stationmaster and get them endorsed by him.
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28. Any person arriving at, or passing through, an
inspection station may, at the discretion of the inspecting
medical officer, be compelled to obtain a passport in accordance
with Rule 2 supra and to undergo surveillance for seven
clays.
29. The inspecting medical officer may also require any
passenger to deliver up his ticket, in order that the prescribed
mark indicative of his having arrived from a plague-infected
locality or an area notified under Rule 1 and therefore of his
being liable to obtain a passport at the station of destination
may be impressed thereon ; and such passenger shall be bound
to deliver it up accordingly.
30. The mark thus used is a hole four-tenths of an inch • •
square punched in the long side of railway tickets. It should
be made only on the tickets of those passengers who come, or
are suspected, to come, from plague-infected areas or from