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until the inspection provided by these rules has been carried out, and
until the guard in charge of such train has obtained a certifi-
cate from the Chief Medical Officer in charge of the inspecting staff to
the effect that all persons proceeding further by the said train, whether
railway servants or passengers, are free from bubonic plague.
2.    Every such train shall be emptied for inspection of the passen-
gers in such manner as the Chief Medical Officer on duty may  direct,
and all such facilities shall be afforded by the servants of the Railway
Company as the Chief Medical Officer on duty may consider to be neces-
sary for the purpose of inspecting-
(a)    Persons who have come by such train, whether they intend
to proceed by it or not, and
(b)   Persons who intend to start from any of the said stations and
travel by such train.
In particular the doors of all railway carriages shall be locked at
the station at which the train last stops before arrival at the station
appointed for the inspection of passengers by these rules.
3.     The Governor in Council may appoint any person or persons by
name or by  virtue of office  to  be  the Inspecting  Medical  Officer  or
Officers for the purpose of these rules and may  cancel  any such  ap-
pointment.
4.    Inspecting  Medical Officers appointed under these rules   are
empowered to examine all persons arriving by, or intending to leave by,
the trains mentioned, and to detain persons  suffering, or  suspected  by
them to be suffering, from bubonic plague in such  places  as  may  be
appointed for the accommodation of such persons respectively.
5.    The Police shall act under the  orders  of the  Chief Medical
Officer on duty under these rules with regard to compelling persons to
submit to such regulations as may be made  or  approved  by the  said
officer for the purpose of inspection, and with regard to the detention and
segregation of persons suffering, or suspected by  them to be  suffering
from bubonic plague.
6.    Disobedience   to  any   orders issued   under the above rules
Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 will subject the offender to a prosecution under section
188 of the Indian Penal Code.
Inward Traf-
fic   Inspection.
The management of the inspection inaugurated by these  rules was
given to Surgeon-Major Street, D.S.O., I.M.S.
B. I. S. N. 6 993
B. S. N. 128,447
G. I. P. 144,185
B.B.& C.J. 98,241
377,866
It was estimated that at the end of February no less than 377,866
persons had left Bombay. But with the fall in the death-rate, which
showed signs of declining by the end of February, and probably also
owing to the exhaustion of the scanty resources of the fugitives, the tide
soon began to set the other way. The next urgent need was, therefore,
to prevent the re-importation of the epidemic from the mofussii into the
City.