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(ii) After disinfection, the carriages should be kept out
in the open for 48 hours. They can then be brought into
use again.
(iii) In the case of first and second class carriages,
which afford greater facilities than third-class compartments
for the harbouring of plague germs, it will be necessary, if
the carriages are contaminated, to burn the cushions and to
disinfect the wood-work in the manner indicated above, and
repaint the interior.
(iv) Any compartment in which a suspicious case has
travelled should be sprayed with the above disinfecting solu-
tion before being allowed to proceed.
21. The clothing, bedding and personal effects of all persons
detained or segregated under Regulation 3, or removed under
Regulation 14 to a place provided under Regulation 2, shall be
thoroughly disinfected and may, at the discretion of the Medical
officer in charge of the place of detention or segregation, be
destroyed.
The Collector of the district may, in his discretion, at the
cost of Local or Municipal funds, award compensation for
articles destroyed; but no person shall be entitled as of right
to recover any compensation by way of damages or otherwise
for the destruction or disinfection of any article dealt with as
above.
Where the clothes or bedding of a traveller shall have been
destroyed as hereinbefore provided, the Medical officer may, if
the person is poor, arrange for providing other necessary articles
in their place, the cost of the same being intimated to the
Collector of the district who shall debit it to Local or Municipal
funds at his discretion.
21-A. The District Collector or any officer appointed by him
either generally or specially in this behalf, or the Medical officer
in charge of a railway inspection station, may take any measures
that he may deem necessary for the disinfection of the clothing
of any person found within the limits of his jurisdiction, who,
in the opinion of the said officer, is likely to have been infected,
or of any articles likely in the opinion of the said officer to carry
infection, which are in the possession of such person; and such
person shall be bound to submit to such measures, and he may,
if necessary, be detained until such measures are taken.
22. The Collector of a district may, in case of emergency or
to save delay, provide for the execution of any work or the
doing of any act which a district board or municipality is
empowered or required to execute or to do in accordance with
these Regulations, and the immediate execution or the doing of