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(c) When a traveller from an infected place situated
within or outside the Madras Presidency proceeds to any
place in the Mysore Province either direct or after breaking
his journey in any infected district in the Madras Presidency,
no intimation need be given to the authorities in Bangalore or
in the Mysore State.
(d) When, however, a passenger from an infected place
arrives in a non-infected district and then proceeds to Mysore
before the expiry of the ten days' period of observation,
intimation of his departure should be at once given to the
authorities in Bangalore or Mysore. If the passenger travels
by railway, the intimation should be addressed to the Assistant
Surgeon, Yesvantpur, or the Residency Surgeon, Bangalore,
as the case may be. If the passenger goes by road, the
intimation should be sent to the local authority or the Amildar
of the place of the destination. In either case the passport
given to the passenger may be recovered by the local authority
of the place of departure or at the road frontier inspection
station through which he may pass.
The intimation should contain the following particulars:-
Passport number, date and station of issue.
Passenger's name and his father's name.
How long observed and where.
New place of residence-District, taluk, village, street, and
number or name of the house.
The forms should be printed at the District Presses.
(P.C., No. 193, dated 15th October 1898; No. 1183, dated 1st May 1899;
G.O., No. 1395-P., dated 20th September 1899.)
11. Where a person from an infected area is passported
at his destination, but returns to his starting point within
ten days, the passport may be given up on return, and further
observation need not be insisted upon.
(P.C., No. 452, dated 20th February 1899.)
12. Regulation 17 (v).-Collectors should instruct their
officers to deal with the utmost care with persons arriving from
infected parts and presenting symptoms of fever with acute
affection of the lungs, until an opportunity is afforded for
a competent medical officer to pronounce whether there is
reason to suspect the existence of pneumonic plague.
(P.C., No. 978, dated 22nd December 1898.)
13. Regulation 17 (viii).-The object of sending intima-
tion of arrivals from infected parts to the District Medical
and Sanitary officer is not merely to inform that officer of
the movements of such persons, but to make him responsible