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furnished for each imported case unless the persons attacked
belong to the same party, but where plague is indigenous, it
is sufficient if the officer in charge of operations sends to the
Plague Commissioner a brief weekly report stating the number
of attacks and deaths, the measures taken and the success
they meet with, the attitude of the people, the method of
infection (e.g., by air, imperfectly dried dust, infected soil and
habitations, articles of apparel, merchandise and domestic
use, by medium of rats, mice, squirrels, cats and infected
water and food) and any other matters of interest. This
report should contain the latest information available on
Thursday, and should be despatched direct to reach the Plague
Commissioner not later than Saturday morning.
(G.O., No. 829-P., dated 17th August 1898; No. 945-P., dated 29th August 1898;
P.C., No. 845, dated 5th December 1898; No. 979, dated 22nd December 1898; No.
457, dated 21st February 1899; and No. 559, dated 1st March 1899.)
2. All attacks and deaths should be telegraphed daily by
Collectors to the Plague Commissioner (or Government), the
Sanitary Commissioner and the Surgeon-General in the form
communicated with Plague Commissioner's Proceedings, No.
357, dated 8th February 1899. Nil telegrams are not
required. The Plague Commissioner should send a daily
telegram of plague cases to the Ceylon Government. The
Collectors of Chingleput, South Arcot, Tanjore, Trichinopoly,
Madura and Tinnevelly should also give telegraphic intimation
of plague in their districts to the Medical officer of the Ceylon
Government at Tuticorin. The cost of these telegrams will
be debited to the Ceylon Government by the Accountant-
General.
(G.O., No. 829-P., dated 17th August 1898; No. 440-P., dated 25th March 1899;
P.C., No. 951, dated 12th April 1899; No. 866, dated 6th December 1898; and No. 25,
dated 5th January 1899.)
3. Each Collector should keep in his office a plague record,
to which officers on plague duty in his district should be
requested to contribute brief notes on any matter they may
consider of importance in perfecting measures against the
disease, or desirable of being placed on record with a view to
adding force to theories already assented to, or controverting
them from (1) an administrative, (2) medical, and (3) sanitary
point of view. Weekly extracts from this record of the por-
tion bearing on sanitation should be sent to the Sanitary
Commissioner.
(P.C., No. 951, dated 12th April 1899.)
4. In Mysore, the amildars and deputy amildars in charge
of taluks and sub-taluks bordering on the British districts are