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CHAPTER V.
RULES UNDER THE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1884,
FOR COMBATING PLAGUE IN MUNICIPALITIES.
(G.O., No. 522-M., dated 13th March 1897; Notification
No. 185, "Fort St. George Gazette," dated 16th March
1897, Part I-A., pages 67-71.)
UNDER Section 250 (1) (m) of Act IV of 1884, His Excellency
the Governor in Council is pleased to make the follow-
ing rules for combating bubonic plague in municipalities.
These rules shall come into force three months after their
first publication in the District Gazettes in English and in
the Vernacular language of the district:-
Rules for combating Bubonic Plague ("Mahammari")
in Municipalities.
NOTE.
The following is a description of the disease known as
bubonic plague:-
(a) After date of acquiring infection a period of a few
hours to three or, in exceptional cases, even ten days may
elapse. There occurs a gradually increasing feeling of lassi-
tude, the colour of the skin may change till a yellowish tint
is acquired; at times there is much restlessness and drowsi-
ness; frontal head-ache of a severe character, attended with
darting pains in the back, loins and abdomen, are frequent.
High fever is ushered in with shivering and after two or
three days of usually continuous fever, glandular swellings
may appear in the groins, arm-pits, or neck, or in all three
positions. On appearance of the swellings the fever may
diminish slightly. The disease may then abate, accompanied
by disappearance of the swellings or their breaking down by
suppuration. But if the disease continues, the patient may
vomit blood, and blood may be discharged from the nose, the
mouth, the bowels, and mixed with urine; the swellings may
become gangrenous and hæmorrhage may occur from their
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