?330 Measures to prevent the [CHAP. X.
from the Bombay Presidency and Sind into the rest of India and
passed undetected through the line of inspection station.* These 10
cases occurred in the following localities in the North-Western
Provinces and the Punjab :-
North- Western Provinces.
Bareilly
1
Rai Bareilly
1
Unao
1
Lucknow
2
Cawnpore
1
Punjab.	
Rawalpindi district
2
Sialkot
2
No case, detected on the railway or undetected, is known to have
passed into Bengal viá the North-Western Provinces, the Central
Provinces, or Madras. Having in view the rigorous system of
observing the suspicious enforced at the Khana inspection station,
it is unlikely that a single case of plague has arrived as far as that
station along the main route from Bombay.
Surveillance of Travellers.
Orders issued by
the Government
of India.
Registration
of names,
addresses, etc.,
of passengers for
communication
to local
authorities.
Functions of the
railway staff.
After consulting the Local Governments and Administrations
principally concerned, the Government of India issued a resolution in
the Public Works Department, dated the 6th March, prescribing
measures to facilitate the surveillance of travellers arriving by railway
from infected districts by action in co-operation with railway
administrations. It was stated in this resolution that the Government
of India desired that all passengers from stations within the limits of
the infected area should, on arrival at stations outside these limits, and
at which no staff had been posted for the inspection of travellers, be
required by the railway staff to furnish to the police, or other agency
designated by the Local Government, their names and addresses,
and such other particulars as might be required for the maintenance of
a check on their proceedings and movements. Railway administra-
tions were informed that the Government of India looked to them to give
* During the recrudescence a few more cases of plague have been carried beyond
the borders of the Bombay Presidency. Three of these cases occurred in the Madras
Presidency-one of them at Madras itself. Almost all were detected at the inspection
stations. In October 1897 a small outbreak of plague was reported from a village in the
Jullunder District of the Punjab and has since spread to some neighbouring villages. It
is not known whence the infection was derived. Some villages in the Sirohi State of
Rajputana, on the borders of the Palanpur State, and some villages in the Naldrug
District of the Hyderabad State, on the borders of the Sholapur District of the Bombay
Presidency, have also become infected. In the latter case the infection was probably
carried by road.