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neglect of the regulations or obstruction to any official on
plague duty will be treated as a breach of the good conduct
required by Government as a condition of the continuation of
their pensions, and that any pensioner being guilty thereof
will be liable to have his pension stopped forthwith, and the
same reduced or permanently withdrawn.
(P.C., No. 684, dated 16th November 1898; No. 956, dated 19th December 1898.)
6.  If the Police are informed that a person is evading the
Plague Regulations by giving a false name or a wrong address,
they  can act under section  57  of the Criminal Procedure
Code, and detain the person until satisfied that they have got
his true name and address.    Failing information as  to true
name and address or the execution of a bond, the Police can
forward the person to a Magistrate.
(G.O., No. 1206-P., dated 30th September 1898.)
7.  The Plague Commissioner has published, for the infor-
mation of the village officials and of the general public, three
circulars explaining briefly the plague rules and the policy of
Government with regard  to  Plague administration.    They
have been translated in Tamil, Telugu, Canarese, Malayalam
and Hindustani.    Officers requiring copies should  apply to
the   Superintendent,  Government Press,   who   has been re-
quested to keep   the circulars in type in all the  languages,
and to supply copies according to requirements.
(P.C., No. 652, dated 11th November 1898.)
(3)-Plague Reports and Returns.
1. When a case of plague, genuine or suspected, is first
discovered in any place, the Collector or any gazetted officer,
who may be at the head-quarter station of the district, should
immediately telegraph the fact to the Plague Commissioner
(or to the Secretary to Government, Local and Municipal
Department, when there is no Plague Commissioner), to the
Sanitary Commissioner and to the Surgeon-General, stating
how the case was discovered, whether it was indigenous or
imported, and in the latter case, whence it was imported,
what steps have been taken for the treatment of the patient
and for the segregation of the contacts, and such further
particulars with dates as may be thought necessary. Further
details should be furnished by post as early as practicable, if
possible within 48 hours. This report should be in the form
prescribed in Plague Commissioner's Proceedings, No. 845,
dated 5th December 1898, and need be sent only to the Plague
and Sanitary Commissioners. A separate report should be