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(6) hospitals, appliances and staff for the care of patients; and

(7) measures taken to ensure the breaking of bulk of consignments

of grain.

Expenditure on the first four items will be borne from provincial

funds. The cost of the fifth and sixth will be borne by municipal funds

in municipal areas and by local funds in rural areas. That of the seventh

will fall on Provincial funds if the measures are undertaken by the

Collector under regulation 8 and on the municipal or local authority

concerned if they are carried out under regulation 10.

Powers of

Collectors

to incur

expenditure

on plague.

21. Collectors are authorized to incur expenditure up to Rs. 5,000

in anticipation of the sanction of Government when prompt action is

necessary under regulation 7 or regulation 8 or when, in consequence of

an outbreak of plague, it becomes necessary urgently to provide hutting

materials for persons evacuating their houses, or to pay compensation

for damage to property. Any expenditure so incurred should be

reported immediately and, except as provided in this order, no expendi-

ture should be incurred from Provincial funds without previous sanction.

Where a local board or municipal council finds it necessary to

incur at short notice expenditure on the care and accommodation of the

sick or on rat destruction, which has not been foreseen or provided for

in its budget, it should take immediate steps to rearrange its budget so

that funds may be available.

Sanction

for the

employment

of plague

establish-

ments.

22. All appointments in connexion with plague require the sanction

of Government. In the case of additional police required for plague

duty the application for sanction should be forwarded, through the

Inspector-General of Police, to the Secretary to Government, Judicial

Department. In other cases applications should be forwarded to the

Secretary to Government, Local Self-Government (Public Health)

Department through the Director of Public Health. Sanctions for

establishments employed under this rule will remain in force to the end

of the following March or September, whichever is earlier, unless for

special reasons a different date is specified in the order in any particular

case. On the 1st of March and on the 1st of September each Collector

will submit in a single communication proposals for the retention of such

of the establishments as, in his opinion, should be retained in the ensuing

half-year, clearly explaining the necessity in each case. Such proposals

should be accompanied by three copies of a statement showing all

existing plague establishments in the form in Appendix C, two copies of

the statement being forwarded at the same time to the Accountant-

General. Special sanction should be obtained for all additional

establishments which it may be found necessary to employ in the course

of the half-year, but in the absence of special instructions to the

contrary all such sanctions will expire at the end of the half-year.

Collectors will also effect from time to time such reductions in establish-

ments as may be feasible and report the fact to the Director of

Public Health for information.

Allowances

to officers

on plague

duty.

23. The Secretary of State has sanctioned the grant of extraordinary

pension to the families of police men who die of plague contracted in the

execution of their duties in plague-stricken localities, provided such

duties entail imminent risk from plague.