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(5)-Duties of the Railway Staff.
The following are the duties of the Railway officials under
the Plague Regulations:
(1) To prevent passengers from infected areas from
alighting at any station other than an inspection station, and
to insist on their proceeding to the inspection station if it is
suspected that the passengers are evading the inspection by
so alighting.
(Regulations 18 and 19, page 34.)
(2) To see with the aid of the platform police that
passengers alighting at a railway station do not leave the
premises except by the proper exit.
(Paragraph 3, page 178.)
(3) To see that the railway tickets issued in an infected
area and the fresh tickets issued to persons from infected
areas who rebook are clipped as prescribed.
(P.C. No. 302, dated 21st October 1898; No. 461, dated 21st February 1899.)
(4) To stop all passengers presenting plague-punched
tickets from infected or notified stations until their names
and addresses are taken down, and they are given passports
either by the plague official appointed for the purpose or by
the station staff themselves at smaller stations.
(G. of I. Order printed in G.O., No. 273-M., dated 23rd February 1897,
and G.O., No. 816-A. M., dated 6th April 1897.)
(5) To carry in a railway compartment vacated for
the purpose persons suffering from plague and their contacts
to the nearest station where segregation accommodation is
available.
(Regulation 14-A, page 30.)
(6) To disinfect railway carriages from infected areas
and carriages in which persons suffering from plague have
travelled.
(Regulations 20 and 20-A, pages 35 and 36.)
(7) To take steps for tracing and destroying rats that
may arrive from infected areas concealed in the goods
imported.
(G.O., No. 738-P., dated 2nd August 1898; P.C., No. 191, dated 14th October 1898.)
(8) To put up a notice in all railway carriages inti-
mating that passengers from infected parts should take out
passports at stations of destination.
(Paragraph 2, page 178.)