252 Measures outside the Bombay Presidency [CHAP. IX.
rest-houses and other such places. All medical practitioners are
required to report the cases they attended. Municipal Commissioners
and servants, village-officers, subordinate revenue-officers, police-
officers, holders of revenue free land, and pensioners, are directed
to report to the police-station all cases of plague that came to their
knowledge. Similar arrangements were made for reporting the arrival
of persons from the Bombay Presidency and Sind.
Madras.
The rules for the City of Madras only provide for report by house-
holders. In other localities in the Madras Presidency the obligation
is laid on householders and medical practitioners.
Central
Provinces.
In the Central Provinces the rules are similar to those prescribed
in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh.
Corpse
Inspection.
The detection of plague cases by the inspection of corpses has
been noticed in Chapter II.
MEASURES TO BE ADOPTED ON THE OCCURRENCE OF
PLAGUE CASES AND EPIDEMICS.
Division of the
subject.
This portion of the subject will be discussed under the following
heads:-
(1) Treatment and segregation of patients.
(2) Segregation of other persons likely to be infected.
(3) Conveyance of patients.
(4) Disinfection or destruction of infected dwellings.
(5) Disinfection or destruction of contaminated articles.
(6) Payment of compensation.
(7) Disposal of corpses.
(8) Infected conveyances.
(9) Evacuation of infected localities.
Treatment and segregation of plague patients.
Native opinion
on the subject of
segregation.
In discussing the measures enforced in the Bombay Presidency
the difficulty of this subject has been described. In dealing with
it the different Local Governments and Administrations were com-
pelled, on the one hand, to consider the importance of devising means
sufficient to prevent sufferers from plague from infecting their surround-
ings, and, on the other hand, they had to take into account the state
of feeling in their respective provinces and the extent to which poli-
tical disaffection and disorder were to be apprehended from the
enforcement of a rule rendering every person suspected to be suffer-
ing from plague liable to be sent to hospital.
Original
North-Western
Provinces rule.
The original segregation rule framed by the Government of the
North-Western Provinces and Oudh, was as follows:-
" If on examination of a sick person in a house or other place
within the limits of a municipality or cantonment, the Health Officer