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the floors and seats, to be thoroughly washed with a solution of
perchloride of mercury (1 in 1,000), or with a carbolic acid solution
(a wine glass full to a gallon) applied with a mop; the doors and
windows to be opened and the vehicles exposed to the air.
"First and second class carriages.-The floors  and  woodwork
to be treated as above, the cushions being also brushed and thoroughly
cleaned."
Instructions not
fully carried out
on the Great
Indian Peninsula
Railway.
Relaxation of
the rules for non-
suspect carriages.
The Government of Bombay reported on the 22nd of May that
the instructions regarding non-suspect vehicles had not been carried
out in full on the lines of Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and that
to do this would occasion considerable inconvenience and delay.
They suggested that it would be sufficient if non-suspect carriages
were disinfected at the end of the journey instead of at an inspec-
tion station on the boundary of the infected area. By this time the
virulence of the epidemic had greatly diminished, and the Govern-
ment of India consented to the proposed relaxation of the orders.
At the same time they stated that should there be a recrudescence of
the plague the rules of the 21st May must be enforced in their entirety.
At the time of the recrudescence the matter was reconsidered and it
was determined that it was not necessary to modify the existing
arrangements.
Measures to prevent the spread of infection by road
and river.
Precautions
adopted in the
Bombay
Presidency and
on the Sind
border.
The precautions taken to prevent the spread of plague by pas-
sengers travelling by railway from the infected parts of the Bombay
Presidency to other parts of India having been described, there remains
for description the precautions adopted to prevent the spread of
plague by other means of communication from one part of the
Presidency to another, and across the Sind border into the
Punjab.
MEASURES ADOPTED IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY.
Subject already
noticed in
discussing land
quarantine.
Some notice has already been taken of the measures enforced
in the Bombay Presidency in discussing the subject of land quar-
antine.