CHAP. VII. ] Measures in the City of Bombay. 173
General Gatacre of the prescribed procedure :-
"I. Immediately a patient is removed from a room, the disinfect-
ing staff should be ready and brought into operation.
"2. All rags, bedding, clothing of the patient and kutchra* generally
should be carefully lifted up and removed and burned outside the
building. In placing the articles outside, they should be carefully
laid down so as not to raise dust.
"3. No brushing of walls or floor should take place ; this is a most
dangerous proceeding and is calculated to spread infection.
"4. The first work in all instances is to flood the floor with a
solution of perchloride of mercury not weaker than 1 in 1,000, the
junctions of floor and walls and all corners should then be mopped
with the solution as well as the wall, as far as the mop will reach,
and above this a small hand-pump should be used ; the floor, if made
of earth, should then be dug up to a depth of four inches.
"5. All furniture that can be dealt with should be likewise disin-
fected with perchloride of mercury solution, either with a pump or
with a cloth dipped in perchloride solution.
"6. After the above work has been thoroughly done and the
solution has dried, quicklime in a hot state, and in as strong a solution
as possible, should be laid on all the walls, floor and ceiling.
"7. In the crent of the whole house requiring disinfection, the
privies should be attended to at first, not forgetting the shafts, then
the staircases and corridors should be operated upon ; lastly, the
rooms in order, first by washing every part with perchloride of
mercury solution and laying on the quicklime as described in para-
graphs 4 and 6.
"8. All nahanis and nahani pipes should be carefully disinfected by
flooding them with perchloride of mercury solution, and where neces-
sary, they should be altogether removed and replaced with new ones
at the cost of the owner of the premises.
"In the case of the poor, a small money grant was made them as
compensation for articles destroyed. Property, the destruction of
which would inflict great loss on the owners, was moved out into the
road and left there, exposed to the sun and air for three days, a guard
being placed over it. The contents of shops and godowns in which
cases of plague occurred were treated in a similar manner.
"Besides the actual disinfection and limewashing of the inside of
the houses affected with plague, a steam flushing engine was obtained
and the outside of the premises was thoroughly washed down,
and the gullies and drains and nahani traps well flushed with disin-
fectants.
* Refuse. Drains.