FROM
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL J. W. WRAY,
Political Agent, Kolhpur and
Southern Martha Country;
To
J. DEC. ATKINS, ESQ., I.C.S.,
Secretary to Government,
General Department, Poona.
Kolhpur 2nd September 1897.
SIR,
With reference to your demi-official letter of 31st ultimo to the Special
Plague Committee, of which His Excellency the Governor was pleased to appoint
me a member, I have the honour to submit, in accordance with your request, the
following account of the measures which have been adopted here, and in this
district, at my suggestion, and which I have found effective as well as easy of
manipulation during the last six months for the purpose of preventing the im-
portation of plague into towns or villages, and also for preventing the spread of
plague from any town or village which may have become infected.
2. To avoid lengthy details I will describe the general arrangements, which
are, of course, subject to local conditions, and which are capable of modification
or enhancement as the case may be.
I also append a rough sketch plan of an imaginary infected town of, say,
10,000 inhabitants.
3. To prevent the importation of plague the following seem to be the
principal considerations:-
(1) Selection of suitable sites for observation camps.
(2) Plan of observation camps and their erection and establishments.
(3) Methods of detaining the public and preventing leakage.
(4) Disinfection of arrivals.
(5) Food and amusements for the temporary occupants of the camps.
(6) Passes for rail and road.
(7) Notice in the newspapers declaring quarantine.
while the indispensable considerations for the prevention of the spread of
plague from any infected town or village can be summed up as follows:-
(1) Warning to the neighbouring villages to make their own quarantine
arrangements and report the arrival of all strangers.
(2) Police cordon A round the infected town or village and distribution of
Police on the roads.
(3) Preparation of pass forms a, b, c.
(4) Rough register of inhabitants taken in sections.
(5) Camp of detention or "waiting camp " for people wishing to leave the
town.
(6) Police cordon B round the " waiting camp."
(7) Prohibition of visits to other bazrs, and arrangements for local sup-
plies.
(8) Plague Hospital.
(9) Standing camp for segregation or accommodation of persons while
their houses are being disinfected.
(10) Notice in Gazette legalizing the above measures in lieu of proclama-
tion.
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