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and in all the outlying villages,-such as Naigam, Siwri, Koli-
wada, Worli, etc.,-it was the invariable practice to persuade or
coerce the people to leave their houses for temporary sheds erected in
the fields, and this measure was generally attended with the most
satisfactory results. Rao Saheb Ellapa Balaram at this time rendered
great assistance to the cause of hut segregation by himself erecting
and working at Foras Road a temporary camp of sheds of consider-
able extent for several months. The same course was followed by
the Bombay Tramway Company, several clubs, hotels and mills, and
many business firms in Bombay, and there are not a few instances
where groups of families clubbed together and did the same. At the
height of the epidemic and afterwards the whole of Northern Bombay
where suitable sites could be obtained was studded with segregation
huts; to say nothing of the very large number of people encamped
along the Maremma at Santa Cruz, Andheri, Goregaum and north-
wards: most of the refugees remained in camp till the middle of May
when the disease had almost vanished."
Regulations for
the City of
Bombay issued
under the
Epidemic
Diseases Act.
The regulations for the City of Bombay alluded to in the telegram
of the Government of Bombay of the 10th February were published
in a notification of the same date issued under the Epidemic Diseases
Act. The regulations provide for-
(1) prohibition of the further use of insanitary dwellings;
(2) summary abatement of overcrowding;
(3) vacation of buildings for the purpose of cleansing, disinfec-
tion, etc., or otherwise for the purpose of checking the
spread of disease;
(4) entry into deserted buildings, their cleansing, disinfection
and ventilation, and the disinfection and destruction of
dangerous articles found in them;
(5) summary entry into and cleansing and disinfecting of other
buildings, and the disinfection or destruction of property
found in them;
(6) limewashing, digging up floors, removal of roofs, and burning
of substances in dwellings;
(7) cutting off of water connection;
(8) demolition of buildings unfit for human habitation.
Payment of
compensation
and incidence of
expenditure.
Provision is also made in the rules for the payment of com-
pensation and the incidence of expenditure. With regard to the
payment of compensation, a general rule was laid down in accord-
ance with the Municipal Act that the Commissioner might in his dis-
cretion allow compensation for damage done in the execution of the