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much impressed by the readiness and docility with which the
people in many of the infected areas have discarded their
prejudices and submitted to removal from their houses, and
His Excellency in Council feels confident that, if the neces-
sity for the measure is carefully explained to them, the
co-operation of leading men obtained as far as possible, and
every consideration shown to the feelings and habits of those
to whom the Regulations have to be applied, this measure will
be accepted without objection by the people of a locality in
which plague has made its appearance. But it appears to
His Excellency in Council that the prospect of such action
being required of them in the event of plague appearing in
their midst may not unreasonably seem distasteful to them so
long as there is no immediate danger of an outbreak, and it
is therefore desirable to, as far as possible, remove any cause
for discontent by encouraging the people themselves to make
arrangements for the establishment of private hospitals and
segregation camps for particular castes, classes, joint families
and associations of families in anticipation of the necessity for
their removal from their own houses arising. The equipment
and administration of such hospitals must be approved by duly
appointed authority. They should be conveniently placed
and it is not necessary that they should be located in remote
situations. They should not, however, be situated in houses
which are actually inhabited or blocks of houses or streets,
for in the event of an outbreak of plague, cases of the disease
might occur in the house or block which it would then be
necessary to completely evacuate. While His Excellency in
Council is strongly of opinion that in carrying out any
measures of segregation regard should be had, as in the case
of Europeans, to the position in society of those classes of
the native community who can be relied on to take efficient
measures with the object of preventing the spread of infection,
and to other considerations of a like nature, it is not, he fears,
possible save in the most exceptional cases (as for instance
that of a house located in a large garden, in which a hospital
or private camp can be located at a distance from the house
actually infected) to permit the residents of an infected house
not to evacuate the area in which it stands. His Excellency
in Council therefore anticipates that in a crowded city there
will be few (if any) houses, which it will be safe to license as
hospitals or for segregation purposes. In public as well as
in private plague hospitals, all possible consideration should
be shown to the feelings of the inmates, and in especial caste
distinctions and the privacy of females who do not appear
in public should be carefully respected. His Excellency in