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Causeway was opened an hour earlier to suit the convenience of the
market-gardeners who have to bring their produce to the Bombay market
at an early hour.
Mahim.
On the Mahim Causeway the inspection was at first held on the
Bombay side. Before the monsoon it was removed to the Bandora side.
The staff consisted of two medical officers, assisted by the Mahim Sub-
divisional officer, and nine police sepoys. As long as there was a
hospital on the spot, the nurses used to do the work of examining the
females. Since the hospital has been closed, Mrs. Saunders has been
engaged for that work.
Sion.
The examination of the Sion Causeway was held at the Sion end.
The staff consisted of two medical officers, and two medical students.
Since the abolition of the hospital there, a lady doctor, Mrs. Beale, has
been engaged for the examination of females.
The number of cases detected was as under :-
	MAHIM.	SION.
Suspicious cases ...	...      36	16
Plague cases ...  ...	....      13	11
The management of the two  causeways  was  given  to Surgeon-
Captain Jennings, as the causeways were situated in his district.
Railway       In-
spection.
The Railway Companies were first approached on the subject of
railway traffic inspection and at once expressed their readiness to help
the Committee in any way. The difficulty to be got over was how to
examine 40 trains a day on each line without causing delay and
obstruction of traffic. On the B. B. & C. I. line the greater numbers
of the trains are for the local traffic between Bandora and Colaba ;
on the G. I. P., on the other hand, there is a great deal of through
traffic, though there are many short-distance trains which do not
go beyond Kalyan. To examine all the trains at one station was
of course impossible without an enormous staff. Arrangements were
accordingly made to separate the examination of the through traffic from
the local. The former-that is to say, all trains coming from
Jubbulpore, Nagpur, Poona, and Raichur were examined at Kalyan, and
henceforth ceased to call at any of the intermediate stations between
Kalyan and Bombay, except, at Tirana. The people who entrained at
Thana were examined as they went on to the platform ; thus the double
examination of passengers was avoided ; the local traffic was examined
at Coorla.
B. B. & C. L
A similar arrangement was made on the Bombay, Baroda & Central 
India Line ; passengers by the Mail train were examined at Palghar ;
passengers by all other trains were examined at Santa Cruz ; and local
passengers entering trains at Santa Cruz and Bandora were inspected as
they went on to the platform. The establishment of the system in the
short time in which it was established would have been impossible
without the hearty co-operation of the Railway Companies, who from
first to last met the Committee half-way in every proposal.