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Female
inspectors.
With a view to the examination of female passengers, female doctors
or nurses were appointed at the stations named in the following
list:-
Bhusawal
2 nurses.
Dadu
1 nurse.
Karachi
1 lady doctor.
Shikarpur
1 lady doctor.
Sukkur
1 nurse.
At Kalyan it was found impossible to make arrangements for
accommodating nurses or female doctors; and if the inspection of any
female passenger raised a strong suspicion of plague, she was sent
back to the Parel Hospital, Bombay, for examination.
Success of the
Bombay arrange-
ments.
The success of the elaborate system of inspection carried out in
the Bombay Presidency is best shown by the very few cases of plague
which were discovered beyond the limits of the province, amongst
the enormous number of persons who travelled to other parts of India
during the period of the epidemic.
The North-
Western
Provinces and
Oudh general
rules.
The rules issued by the Government of the North-Western Prov-
inces and Oudh divide the railway inspection stations into three
classes:-
(a) principal inspection stations;
(b) minor inspection stations with a hospital assistant in charge;
and
(c) minor inspection stations with an officer of the vaccination
department in charge.
Principal
inspection
stations.
Examination of
passengers.
Segregation of
suspects and
treatment of
plague cases in
hospital.
Companions and
attendants.
The rules for principal inspection stations provide, in the first
place, for the detention of the train as long as may be necessary for
the medical examination of the passengers. On arrival of the train
at a principal inspection station passengers are required to remain
in the train until permitted to alight by the railway police or a
medical officer. They are then required to proceed for the pur-
pose of examination to the place appointed for the purpose, there to
remain until permitted to depart. The examination of female passen-
gers was effected under the orders of the medical officer by a female
medical practitioner or subordinate. Persons suspected to be suffer-
ing from plague are removed to the temporary observation shed and
there detained under medical treatment. If the case proves to be a
true case of plague, the patient is removed to the temporary hospi-
tal. The companions and attendants of patients are permitted to
accompany them, and are required to reside in a segregation hut
or tent in the immediate vicinity of the hospital. If any one amongst