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infected parts on their way to the Nilgiris shall, with refer-
ence to the revised Mufassal Regulation 17 published on
page 137, Part I-A, of the Fort St. George Gazetle, dated 27th
May 1898, obtain passports from the Medical officer in charge
of the plague inspection station at Pódanúr before proceeding
further.
(3)-NOTIFICATION No. 638, FORT ST. GEORGE GAZETTE, DATED
9TH AUGUST 1898, PART I-A, PAGE 240.
Under the provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897,
His Excellency the Governor of Fort St. George in Council
is pleased to issue the following rules in continuation of
Notification No. 531, published in the Fort St. George Gazette,
dated 5th July 1898, Part I-A, page 194:-
(1) All railway carriages containing passengers from
plague-infected parts holding tickets to Méttupálaiyam shall
be locked before arrival at the Pódanúr railway station.
(2) After the train has entered the Pódanúr railway
platform, the locked carriages shall be opened and each
passenger coming, or believed to have come, from an infected
part shall be examined by the Medical officer, who will give
him a pass-port if there are not sufficient grounds for
detaining him under the Plague Regulations.
(3) The Madras Railway Company shall not carry
any such passenger beyond Pódanúr unless he produces a
pass-port signed by the inspecting medical officer.
(4)-ADDITIONAL MUFASSAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE
EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT, 1897, FOR DISTRICT MUNICI-
PALITIES AND TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
(G.O., No. 93-P., dated 26th February 1898; Notification
No. 169, "Fort St. George Gazette," dated 1st March
1898, Part I-A, pages 55-64.)
WHEREAS certain parts of India are visited by, and the
Presidency of Madras is threatened with, an outbreak of a
dangerous epidemic disease known as bubonic plague, and
whereas the ordinary provisions of the law in force in the
Presidency are insufficient for the purpose of preventing the
outbreak or spread of the disease, His Excellency the Gov-
ernor of Fort St. George in Council, in exercise of the powers
delegated to him under section 2, sub-section (3), of the
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