CHAPTER IX.
MEASURES OUTSIDE THE BOMBAY PRESI-
DENCY.
Preliminary Remarks.
Arrangement of
subject.
The general orders issued in provinces lying outside the Bombay
Presidency and Sind will first be described and an account will then
be given of the operations carried out at Hardwar and the neighbour-
ing town of Kankhal in the North-Western Provinces and at
Khandraoni in the Gwalior State.
General Regulations.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
Regulations
reprinted in
Appendix IV.
The regulations issued by the Governments of Madras, the North-
Western Provinces and Oudh, Bengal and the Punjab under the
Epidemic Diseases Act are set forth at length in Appendix IV, and
those portions which relate to the prevention of the spread of infec-
tion by land will be separately discussed in Chapter X.
General
Regulations of
the Government
of the North-
Western
Provinces and
Oudh.
Revised
Regulations.
The Government of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh issued
its first set of general regulations on the 12th February, and subse-
quently modified them by a set of regulations issued on the 26th of
March. In issuing the second set of regulations the Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor remarked that representations had been made to him that it
would conduce to the smoother working of the rules if the procedure
to be followed under them were more carefully and clearly defined.
The rules of the 12th February were accordingly reconsidered by the
Local Government with the assistance of a committee formed of the
Commissioner of Lucknow, the Sanitary Commissioner of the Prov-
ince, and a number of leading Hindu and Muhammadan landowners
and residents. The regulations issued on the 26th March after this
reconsideration modified the former rules mainly in the direction of
defining and limiting the action of the police, in associating more
definitely the proprietors of land and the chief residents in the