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"About 40 persons who attempted to evade the cordon at various
times were detained and prosecuted and convicted.
"No persons have been arrested as having evaded the cordon by
villagers, but the patels, etc., were put on the watch for them and
would have done so had the necessity arisen, as they and their
villagers, after they realised the danger from contagion or infection,
became extremely keen on keeping their villages free from strangers.
"The best proof of the efficiency of the cordon and the co-ope-
ration of the villagers is the immunity of the Pardi taluka, and
especially the frontier British villages when compared with the 3,000
cases of plague that have occurred within the Daman territory."
Additional
precautions.
In addition to these precautions on the frontier passengers were
inspected at the neighbouring railway stations of Pardi, Daman Road,
Udvada, and Bhilad. At Pardi suspicious persons were detained
under observation for ten days, and segregation hospitals were also
established at Daman Road and Udvada. The surrounding inhabi-
tants were informed that they might prevent suspicious persons from
entering their villages, and the Commissioner reports that they
availed themselves largely of this means of protection. It is stated by
the Commissioner that the measures adopted succeeded in protecting
the Pardi taluka from the great danger to which it was exposed, and
that during the period of the epidemic only one endemic case was
discovered in the taluka.
Further history of
the stoppage of
third class
railway traffic.
Punjab.
Rajputana.
The following is the further history of the proposal to stop third
class railway traffic from infected districts.
To protect the Punjab the inspecting officer at Khanpur station
was directed to exercise a wide discretion in stopping suspicious per-
sons travelling from the direction of Sind. To protect Rajputana the
Government of Bombay were requested to prevent all suspicious per-
sons from leaving Palanpur by rail or road until they had been sub-
jected to a period of observation, and the Agent to the Governor
General was directed to detain and keep under observation all suspi-
cious persons arriving from Palanpur.
Sukkur.
On the 3rd April, plague having become virulent in Sukkur, the 
Government of Bombay informed the Government of India that the
Commissioner in Sind had stopped second, intermediate and third
class railway traffic to stations in the Punjab and Baluchistan from
Sukkur and the neighbouring stations of Bagarji, Rohri, and Sangi,
except under written permission of the Sukkur-Rohri Plague Com-
mittee. The Government of India replied that they considered it
would be sufficient to examine all passengers booking at Sukkur, the
inspecting officer being given wide discretion to retain under