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that advances granted by Government to local bodies to meet
plague expenditure are applied to the precise purposes far
which the advances were made and are not utilized to relieve
their ordinary funds of expenditure on sanitary, medical and
other obiects,
Fines.
38. Fines recovered in prosecutions under the Plague
Regulations should be credited to fines under Law and Justice.
Class? fictaion
of plague
ohai-ges.
39. Appendix D shows the proper classification of charges
commonly incurred in connection with plague.
40- " Direct " plague expenditure means expenditure
exhibited in the Government accounts under the head 24-D.
MEDICAL — Grants for Medical Purposes—Expenses in connection
with Bulonic Plague. "Indirect" plague expenditure means
extra expenditure due to plague but brought to account under
the ordinary appropriate service heads.
(ii) The amount of indirect plague expenditure is
therefore not ascertainable from the ordinary Provincial and
incorporated local fund accounts and special statements are
prepared in the course of audit by the Accountant-General
in the case of expenditure from general revenues and by the
treasury officer in the case of expenditure from incorporated
local funds.
(iii) To facilitate the preparation of these statements all
officers who draw bills for indirect plague expenditure should
write conspicuously at the head of each such bill, beside the
account head, the word " Plague " in red ink. If only some
of the items in a bill are indirect plague charges, the word
*' Plague" should be written against each such item instead
of at the head of the bill.
41» Itshould.be noted that pay and allowances of officers
and establishments forming part of existing departments or
services whose employment on plague duty does not involve
the payment of salaries to other persons for the performance
of their legitimate duties (even though they may be exclusively
engaged on plague duties) and not receiving extra allowances
on account of plague, do not constitute indirect plague charges
(and of course are not direct plague charges) because they
do not involve .extra expense. A statement should be for-
warded to the Accountant-Gen eral by the 20th of each month
showing tho pay and allowances, drawn in the previous month,
of officers and establishments so employed.
4:&- From the above it will be seen that the distinc-
tion between direct and indirect plague expenditure affects
the accounts of incorporated local funds expenditure and
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Provincial expenditure. As regards excluded local funds
this distinction is unnecessary and all extra expenditure,
i.e., expenditure which would not have been incurred bufc for
the occurrence or imminence of plague may be shown under
the head Plague.
43- Contingent expenditure on account of plague, e.gr.,
stationery, postage, telegrams, office furniture and such like,
should be charged against the heads of account fco which the
salaries of the officers incurring such expenditure are debited.
In regard to establishments newly entertained to dedl with
plague, the principle that officers of superior grades should be
charged to PROVINCIAL, and those of inferior grades to LOCAL>
should be applied. With regard to establishments dependent
on officers newly employed to deal with plague, the principle
that the charge should follow the pay of the officer oil whom
the establishment is dependent should hold both in regard to
establishments and contingencies. The cost of tents supplied
to officers on plague duty will follow the debit of the pay of
the officers.
Half-yearly
statements
of audited
plague
chnrges.
44. The Accountant-General should submit half-yearly
statements of audited plague charges—direct and indirect—
under Provincial, Local, Municipal and Cantonment funds in
the form shown in Appendix B. The statements should
show the rateable distribution by districts o E plague
expenditure among district boards and also all expenditure
incurred in connection with plague which has not been
brought to book as direct or indirect, e.g., the emoluments of
officers and establishments forming part of existing depart-
ments or services and not replaced -by substitutes, but
exclusively engaged on plague duties. These statements,
which should cover the periods ending the 30th September
and the 31st March in each financial year, should reach
Government on the 12th of November and the 12th of
May, respectively, five copies being submitted to the Financial
Department and two to the Local and Municipal (Plague)
Department.
Estimates.
of plague
expeD elitäre.
45. All Collectors, the Surgeon-General, the Inspector-
General of Police and the Sanitary Commissioner are required
to submit annually on the 5th November estimates of plague
expenditure in the form prescribed below. The estimate
submitted by the Surgeon-General should include provision
for all medical officers and nurses (if any), who have been
sent out by the Secretary of State and are temporarily
attached to hospitals in Madras prior to their being posted to
plague duties.
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Revised estimate for 191 -1 , and budget estimate for
191 -1 , of plague expenditure in the district of
Detailed
Account.
1
Actuals
of the
previous
year.
2
Grants
already
sanctioned,
(for the
current
year).
3
Actuals up
to the 31st
October
(of the cur-
rent year).
4
Revised
estimate (for
the current
year).
6
* Budget
estimate for
the ensuing
year.
6
Explana-
tory
remarks.
7
* The figures in column 6 should be based on the conditions existing at the time
of framing the estimate.
46. Budgeting officers should submit their estimates in
print, getting them printed locally. îsTo changes should be
made in the form without the approval of the Government
in the Financial Department.
4:7- The estimates should be submitted for all major and
minor heads of account concerned and complete explanations
for all variations in the columns of figures should be entered
in a facing page opposite the figures themselves. They
should be submitted in four main portions, viz. (1) Provincial,
(2) Local, (3) Municipal and (4) Cantonment funds ; but in
order to expedite the disposal of the estimates, the Local,
Municipal and Cantonment funds portions should be submitted
to the Local and Municipal (Plague) Department direct, the
Provincial portion being submitted to the Financial Depart-
ment. The several portions should be submitted by bud-
geting officers simultaneously arid punctually. Orders on the
entire estimate for each district will issue from the Financial
Department.
4:8- The following instructions should be carefully
attended to by budgeting officers :—
(i) (flf-) When submitting plague estimates, budgeting
officers should invariably reconcile the allotments proposed on
account of Salaries and Establishments with the entries in
the latest list of plague establishments and explain differ-
ences, where such exist, in the page for explanatory remarks
in the estimate.
(6) Provision should, as a rule, be made in the
estimates for existing establishments, but where such is not
the case full explanation should be afforded.
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(c) The necessity for any provision of Es. 300 and
upwards under Supplies and Services or Contingencies should
be explained.
(ii) If in any case the estimates as framed by budgeting
officers under Local or Municipal exceed the provisions made
in. the annual budget of the district board or municipality
concerned, it should be stated how it is proposed to meet the
excess expenditure.
(iii) The figures for each municipality should be given
separately in the estimates.
(iv) In framing the estimates the totals under each
head of account should, as far as possible, be rounded to tens
or to even hundreds of rupees, annas and pies being omitted,
(v) The actual expenditure as reported by budgeting
officers in the plague estimates under Local and Municipal
should correspond with the figures communicated to the
Accountant-General by the presidents of district boards and
the chairmen of municipal councils.
4:9- Collectors, chairmen of municipal councils, and other
officers concei-ned with the control of plague expenditure will
be reminded that they are primarily responsible for making
i provision in the estimate for the necessary expenditure in
| each year; that expenditure can be incurred only against
I the allotments passed by Government ; and that applications
should be made for additional allotments immediately it is
; foreseen that the actual expenditure is likely to vary consider-
ably from the estimate accepted by Government.
Report
regarding
savings in
the budget
estimates.
50. At the same time these officers should keep Govern-
ment informed of savings to the extent of Es. 500 and above
which are likely to accrue in the estimated expenditure in
consequence of reduction of establishments or other causes.
It should be remembered that savings arising from the fact
that the plague estimates accepted during the jear do not
utilise fully the allotments existing in the sanctioned budgets
of local bodies, should not be utilised by district boards and
municipalities for purposes not connected with plague.
Transfer of
funds.
I
51- Collectors can themselves effect transfer of funds
l from one detailed head to another under the same minor head,
I and, subject to budget provision, they may also sanction all
| deviations and excesses in estimates previously sanctioned by
[ Grovernment up to a limit of 5 per cent, of the total amount
ji of each estimate. In the case of urgent works and repairs
| costing Rs. 25 or less, estimates may be dispensed with pro-
| vided the bills are passed by the Collector, and the usual
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certificates are furnished by the officers responsible for the
work being properly carried out.
PART VI.—REPORTS AND RETURNS AND
CORRESPONDENCE.
Report to be
sent by
Collectors to
the Sanitary
0,-m.iDÍB-
sioner on the
occurrence of
the first case
of plague.
5&. When a case of plague, genuine or suspected, is first
discovered in any place not declared infected, the Collector
or, in his absence, any gazetted officer at the head-quarters
station of the district should immediately telegraph, the fact
to the Sanitary Commissioner, stating whether the case was
indigenous or imported, if the latter whence it was imported,
how the case was discovered, and any other farther particu-
lars, with dates, which may appear necessary. In the case
of ports whence vessels sail for Europe, it should also be
stated in the telegram whether any plague or unusual morta-
lity among rats was observed. Names of hamlets should not
be telegraphed but only the names of -villages to which such
hamlets belong. Oases of plague among contacts who have
not been, within the preceding fortnight,, in an infected place
should be treated as indigenous and not as imported.
Detailed
report of
plaecue cases
to be sent to
the Collector
by the
plague
inspector.
53- The plague inspector, the tahsildar or other reporting
officer should draw up his report to the Collector in the forra
prescribed in Appendix F, in respect of imported cases and
the first three cases of indigenous plague in any village.
The report should be submitted within 24 hours from the
hour of the first intimation of plague in the case specified,
and should not be delayed merely because full information
on all points is not available. The form should be filled in
as far as possible.
Report of
plague cases
10 be sent by
Collectors to
Government
and the
Sanitary
Commis-
sioner.
54. All attacks and deaths should be telegraphed daily
by Collectors to the Sanitary Commissioner in the form
prescribed by G.O. No. 485 P., dated 10th March Iv04.
Nil telegrams are not required. Telegraphic reports should
also be sent to Government in the following cases :—
(a) First indigenous case occurring in a district pre-
viously free from plague.
(6) First three indigenous cases occurring in a town
of 10,000 or more inhabitants.
(c) First three indigenous cases occurring in any port.
Collectors should also send telegraphic reports to
the medica] officer of the Ceylon Government stationed at
Tuticorin of the first indigenous case occurring in a district
previously free from plague. The cost of these telegrams
will be debited to the Ceylon Government by the Accountant-
General.
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55. Collectors of infected districts should send daily
reports of plague to the Collectors and District Medical
and Sanitary officers of adjoining districts in the form pre-
scribed by G.O. No. 83 P., dated 16th January 1904-.
Communica-
tion of
information
regarding
plague oases
to adjoining
districts.
The Collectors of Nellore, North Arcot, Chittoor, South
Arcot and Chingleput should send a copy of the daily plague
report to the President of the Madras Corporation, and
should also report to him by telegram immediately on its
occurrence any case of plague or suspected plague that may
occur in any new place within their districts.
Instructions
for submit-
ting
proposal« in
regard, to
fairs and
festivals
56. Proposals in regard to the prohibition of the attendance
of pilgrims at fair s and festival s should be for warded through
the Sanitary Commissioner so as to reach Government
a month and a half previous to the holding of the fair
or festival. In order to avoid delay in their submission,
Collectors should prepare in their office every month à list of
all the fairs and festivals to take place during; the ensuing
three months, and should send by the 15th of each month
their recommendations relating to religious and other gather-
ings to be held in the next month but one. Notice of the
prohibition of the issue of railway tickets should be given to
the railway authorities at least a week previous to the date
of commencement of the prohibition.
Statements to
accompany
proposals
relating to
fairs and
festivals.
57, The Collector's reports about fairs and festivals
should be invariably accompanied by draft notifications under
the Epidemic Diseases Acb, 1897, and by a statement in the
form shown in Appendix G-. Skeleton notifications are printed
as Appendix H.
Special
report to be
sent to the
Sanitary
Commis-
sioner
regarding
rat morta-
lity.
58. Upon receipt of information of the occurrence of
unusual mortality among rats, the chairman in municipal
limits or the District Medical and Sanitary Officer, and in
regard to non-municipal areas, the Collector or District
Medical and Sanitary Officer, should forthwith forward a
special report regarding rat-mortality to the Sanitary Com-
missioner and may, if necessary, forward specimens of dead
rats, under proper precautions, to the Director of the King
Institute of Preventive Medicine for bacteriological examina-
tion.
Plague
reports';
sent by the
Sanitary
Commis-
sioner.
59. The following reports and returns are sent by the
Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of Madras;—
(1) A monthly "return in the form prescribed by G.O.
No. 568 P., dated 25th August 1909, containing verified
figures of deaths from plague to the Sanitary Commissioner
with the Government of India direct so as to reach him not
later than the 15th of the second month after that to which.
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the statistics relate. The return should be accompanied by
a narrative giving a concise view of the situation as regards
plague in the Presidency and a brief account of any events
of importance connected with plague which occurred during
the month to which the return relates.
To enable the Sanitary Commissioner to prepare the
monthly narrative referred to above, Collectors of districts
affected with indigenous plague should forward to him, by
the 15th of every month, a report for the previous month
showing whether the disease was increasing or decreasing,
what measures, were taken to suppress it and with what
degree of success, the attitude of the people towards evacua-
tion, inoculation and other measures, what steps they were
taking to help themselves and any other matters^of interest.
(2) An express telegram every Monday direct to the
Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India showing
separately the number of seizures and deaths from plague
reported during the week ending with the previous Saturda^y,
(1) in the Presidency town, (2) in each town of 50,000 or more
inhabitants in each district, (3) in each port of the Presi-
dency, (4) in the rest of the district and (5) in Native States.
(3) A bi-monthly report direct to the Sanitary Commis-
sioner with the Government of India showing what places
previously included in the weekly statements of plague cases
published in the Gazette of India have been declared to be free
from plague.
(4) A telegraphic report to the Government of India at
the beginning of every month showing the total number of
deaths from plague in the Presidency during, the previous
• month.
(5) Telegraphic intimation to His Majesty's Cónsul-
General at Alexandria and also to the Government of India
regarding the a.ppearance or recrudescence of plague or of
its cessation in the ports of this Presidency from which
vessels sail for Europe. It should be stated in the telegrams
sent to the Government of India whether any plague or
unusual mortality among rats was observed.
(6) A statement to the Secretary to Government, Local
and Municipal Department, every Monday showing the plague
cases in the Presidency in the form shown in appendix II to
G.O. No. 421 P., dated 25th July 1918.
Half-yearly
statements of
areas to be
placed under
or freed
from observ-
ation.
60- (I) Collectors of districts containing areas under
observation should submit not later than the 1st of April
and the 1st of October in every year, a statement showing
separately the taluks and municipalities which should continue
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fco be regarded aa being under observation during the
ensuing half-year and the areas which should be freed from
observation. Government will then publish a single consoli-
dated notification specifying all the areas in the Presidency
which will remain under observation during the half-year,
municipalities and taluks of districts being shown separately.
(2) If any area not included in the half-yearly notifi-
cation is imminently threatened with plague in the course of
the half-year, proposals for placing it under observation
should be submitted to Government immediately, the muni-
cipal and non-municipal areas comprised in it being specified
separately; but no proposal for rescinding a notification
declaring an area to be under observation should ordinarily
be submitted except on the dates specified in the previous
paragraph.
Half-yearly
lists of
plague
establish-
ments.
61. Collectors of districts should submit on the 31st
March and 30th September of each year a printed list of
officer« of all classes employed on plague duty, in the form
prescribed in Appendix I. The Inspector-General of Police
should prepare similar lists of all police engaged in plague
work. These lists should accompany the proposals for the
retention of establishments submitted under Eule 19.
Copies of the lists should be sent as follows :—
Three copies to the Secretary to Government, Local
and Municipal Department.
Two copies to the Accountant-General.
One copy to the Sanitary Commissioner.
Tnter-coni-
m uni cation
of plague
news.
62- Inasmuch as the Mysore Da,rbar has instructed the
amildars and deputy amildars in charge of taluks and sub-
taluks of Mysore which border on British districts to give
immediate information of the occurrence of plague within
their jurisdiction direct to the tahsildars of the neighbouring
British taluks, and as the deputy commissioners have been
similarly requested to keep the Collpctors of adjoining British
districts promptly informed of the occurrence of plague in
the neighbouring districts in ^Mysore, Collectors of British
districts bordering on Mysore will accordingly arrange to
give similar information direct to the officials of the Darbar.
Similar arrangements are in force with regard to districts
bordering on the JSfizam's Dominions.
63- A system of intercommunication among the Sanitary
Commissioners of the various provinces has been sanctioned
by the Government of India with regard to news about the
progress of plague. Under this system, the appearance of
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plague should be telegraphed at once by the Sanitary Com-
missioner iû whose area cases occur to the other Sanitary
Commissioners on receipt of a report of a first case in taluks
and important towns.
Plague
correspond-
ence.
64. All correspondence about plague should be addressed
to the Secretary to Government, Local and Municipal (Plague)
Department, and should be marked with the word " Plague "
in red ink on the outside covers and on the left-hand corner of
the papers. Telegrams should be addressed to " Madras,
Plague."
65. All references regarding account matters should be
addressed to, or forwarded through, the Accountant-Gen eral.
66. Plague correspondence should be entered in a separate
current register, and the papers shown against a new item
"Plague" in the quarterly business returns. A separate
series of number« should be given to the disposals, and the
question of destroying or retaining them should be dealt
with in accordance with Board's Proceedings, No. 101, dated
18th April 1898.
Destruction
of plague
records.
67» Notification papers received by local authorities should
be filed together and destroyed at the expiry of six months.
In Appendix J is given a list of plague records showing when
each item may be destroyed.
Distribution
of copies of
printed
orders of
Government.
68. Copies of printed Government orders relating to
plague matters need not ordinarily be supplied to medical
subordinates, sanitary inspectors or chairmen of unions, or
to each member of a municipal council. Where necessary,
district circulars embodying the purport of the Government
orders should be issued to subordinate officers. Spare copies
of Government orders are at present distributed in accordance
with the statement printed as Appendix K.
Distribution
of copies
of the!ists
of plague
infected
areas.
69. Copies of notifications of lists of plague-infected areas
and notification stations are at present distributed as shown in
Appendix L. The Superintendent, Government Press, should
supply all Collectors with the required number of copies
of the notifications for circulation with District Gazettes.
Vernacular translations of these notifications may be obtained
by the Collectors on indent from the Superintendent,
Government Press.
Intimation to
be sen:; by
the medical
officer at
Jalarpefc to
the Cejlon
medical
officer at
Tuticorin.
70. The inspecting medical officer, Jalarpet, should send
telegraphic intimation to the medical officer of the Ceylon
Government at Tuticorin when passengers pass from Banga-
lore to Tuticorin. The cost of these telegrams will be
recovered from the Ceylon Government by the Accountant-
General.