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shall also in the same manner forthwith report the arrival at
the house, hotel, chuttram or other place, of any person from
any area which has been notified * by the Governor in Council
or the Collector to be infected. The Chairman or the Rev-
enue or Medical officer, as the case may be, shall forthwith
send information to the Collector of the district of the
occurrence of any such case.
2. On the requisition of the Collector, and to the extent to
which he may determine, a Municipal Council or a District
Board, if it has not already made the provision, shall provide
and maintain in such localities, which, in the case of a munici-
pality, may be within or without the municipal limits, as in the
opinion of the District Medical and Sanitary officer, or a
Medical officer deputed by him, may be proper for the purpose,
suitable and sufficient accommodation † to the satisfaction of such
Medical officer, for the isolation and treatment of persons suffer-
ing or suspected to be suffering from the plague, or to have so
lately suffered from the plague as to be in an infectious state,
or likely from recent contact with plague cases to have been
infected or to be in an infectious state, and also accommodation
for their detention until they shall be certified by the Medical
officer in charge to be free from infection. In the places so
provided, the Municipal Council or the District Board, as the case
may be, shall furnish such hospital establishments, equipment
and supplies as the District Collector may determine, and shall
also make arrangements for feeding persons detained under the
powers conferred by any of the Regulations made under the
Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, on payment by them of the cost;
but in the case of indigent persons, the Municipal Council or the
District Board, as the case may be, shall supply them with food
free of charge: provided that any person so detained may cater
for himself subject to such rules and conditions as the medical
officer in charge may prescribe. The Municipal Council or Dis-
trict Board, as the case may be, shall, on like requisition and in
like manner and subject to like approval, provide accommoda-
tion for persons who may be required to vacate any building or
ground under the Regulations set out below numbered 4, 5 and
* Note.-Only the places actually infected with plague should, as a rule, be notified
as such (G.O., No. 878-P., dated 12th June 1899).
† Note.-Rule 24 of the rules issued in G.O., No. 252-M., dated 13th March 1897,
requires that isolation huts shall be erected and maintained in each municipal town.
Camps are also attached to all railway and road inspection stations. As regards other
places, sheds should be erected when actually required, any case of plague that may occur
being meanwhile isolated in a hut or shed remote from inhabited houses as directed in
Additional Mufussal Regulation 17 (page 46) (G.O., No. 1090-P., dated 17th September
1898). The cost of sheds constructed in Cantonments should be borne by the
Cantonment funds. (P.O. No. 802, dated 25th November 1898),
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