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the whole Presidency. He should also forward direct to the
Financial Department by the 5th of the first month of each
quarter an estimate of all charges relating to inoculation.
(P.C.'s Ref. on C, No. 97, dated 4th January 1899; G.O., No. 864, Finl., dated
31st July 1899).
9-Fairs, Festivals and Pilgrimages.
The views of the Government of India with regard to the
imposition of special checks on large gatherings during times
of plague are contained in para. 12 of their Resolution printed
on pages 83-92.
2.  Any proposals which Collectors may desire to make in
the matter should be forwarded through the Sanitary Com-
missioner  (and the Plague  Commissioner)   so as   to  reach
Government a month and-a-half previous to the holding of the
fairs and festivals.    Proposals submitted at later dates do not
allow proper measures being taken to enforce them.    In view
to avoid delay in their submission, Collectors should prepare
in their office every month a list of all the fairs and festivals
to take place in the ensuing three months, and should send
by the 15th of each month their recommendations relating to
religious and other gatherings to be held in the next month
but one.
(G.O., No. 279-P., dated 25th March 1898; No. 645-P., dated 1st May 1899; P.C.,
No. 462, dated 22nd February 1899.)
3.  The Collector's reports should be invariably  accom-
panied by draft notifications under the  Epidemic Diseases
Act and by a statement in the following form :-
Name
of
festival
or
fair.
Place 
where 
held.
Distance 
to 
nearest railway station.
Date of commence- ment and termination of festival 
or fair.
Average attendance during the past three years.
From what districts in the Madras Presidency and from what places 
outside the Presidency, pilgrimage should be prohibited, and the number of people expected from each of such districts or places.
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(G.O., No. 279-P., dated 25th March 1898; P.C., No. 843, dated 3rd December 1898;
No. 462, dated 22nd February 1899).