CHAP. VII. ] Measures in the City of Bombay. 145
Operations carried out by the Plague Committee.
APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMITTEE.
Resolution of the
Government of
Bombay
appointing the
Committee.
By a resolution of the Government of Bombay dated the 9th
March, the following gentlemen were constituted a Committee
for the purpose of carrying out, under the orders of the Government,
the measures to be taken to suppress and prevent the spread of
plague in the City of Bombay :-
(1) Brigadier-General W. F. Gatacre Chairman.
(2) Mr. P. C. H. Snow }
(3) Surgeon-Major H. P. Dimmock } Members.
(4) Mr. C. C. James }
Powers conferred
on the
Committee.
The resolution appointing the Committee invested them with the
full powers conferred on or vested in the Municipal Commissioner by
the Municipal Act of the city, by the notification of the Municipal
Commissioner of the 6th October described in the first portion of this
chapter, and by the notification of the Government of Bombay of the
10th February, the terms of which have also been summarised above.
The Municipal Corporation, all officers and servants of the Corpora-
tion, and all public servants and persons employed by the Committee
were directed to carry into effect, without delay, any measures which
might be ordered by the Committee. In accordance with the orders
contained in the notification of the 10th February, all expenditure was
to be met, in the first instance, by the Corporation, and the Corporation
or the Commissioner were empowered to make recoveries from private
persons in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Act. The
Commissioner of Police was directed to give such assistance as might
be necessary on the requisition of the Committee. In a later notification (dated the 23rd of March) the Committee were specially empowered to cause the inmates of any building in which it was believed that a case of plague had occurred to be segregated for a period not
exceeding ten days.
Objects with
which the
Committee was
appointed.
* " In a letter addressed to the President of the Municipal Corpora-
tion (explaining the object with which the Committee had been
appointed) His Excellency the Governor of Bombay said that so
thorough had been the cleansing operations carried out by the municipal executive that the continued existence of plague in the city was conclusive proof that it could not be stamped out by any measures of
* Extract from General Gatacre's report.
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