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disinfecting bath put on clean clothes and threw those he
was wearing over the fence, whence they were carried
away and disinfected. He remained ten days under obser-
vation and then, if found healthy, was allowed to depart.
The Commissioner on paying a surprise visit to the camp
found the inmates cheerful and healthy. He states that
there was ample accommodation for all who desired to
pass through the camp. The amount of accommodation
was gradually increased until it was sufficient for one
hundred persons. The number of occupants varied con-
siderably; during the height of the epidemic it appears to
have been generally between fifty and a hundred.
Passage of goods
into Daman.
(3) On the passage of goods there was no embargo. Passes were
granted to twelve agents selected by Mr. Judge and the
Governor of Daman, who were allowed to take delivery of
parcels at the railway stations and to bring them into
Daman. The only limitation on the transport of goods into
Daman was that carts and cartmen had to be changed at one
of the two frontier stations of Chola and Patharpunja. The
Commissioner states that the arrangements were simple
and effective, and the fact that traffic was confined to two
routes occasioned no inconvenience, since under the Land
Customs Act only these two routes are open to goods traffic
in ordinary times.
Guarding of the
cordon line.
The arrangements made by Mr. Judge for guarding the cordon
line were careful and elaborate. Along the whole 38 miles to be
guarded a path was demarcated and made practicable for patrolling
by night and day. There was a guard-house about every mile along
the line, and special precaution was taken at the places where roads
intersected the cordon. The whole of the line was patrolled by sen-
tries, who were constantly visited by their officers.
"You will thus see," said Mr. Judge, "that the line being strongly
guarded by sentries about 1 to 1/4 of a mile, constantly patrolled by
Amaldars,* and regularly visited by the supervising staff, it was abso-
lutely impossible for persons to get across during the day unperceived
and next to impossible for them to do so at night.
"Now as all the roads were guarded, and as ordinary passengers
would not be able to find their way over the fields at night and when in
addition to finding their way, they would have had to evade a strongly
guarded cordon, it will be seen that the task of crossing the cordon
was, for ordinary persons, rendered impossible at night also, even for
healthy persons.
* Officers.