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The Government Resolution legalising the examination of inward
railway traffic was published on April 13th, and ran as follows :-
" The Bombay Plague Committee are hereby empowered to
appoint Medical men as Plague Authorities at railway stations in the
Than a District for the purposes of these rules. Such Plague Autho-
rities shall have authority to inspect railway passengers, intending rail-
way passengers, and other persons found in railway trains or at the
railway stations to which these rules are or may hereafter be applied,
and to detain and send to hospitals or other places appointed for the
purpose persons found or believed to be suffering from the Plague.
These rules are hereby made applicable to the railway stations of
Kalyan, Thana, and Coorla on the G. I. P. Railway, and Palghar, Santa
Cruz, and Bandora on the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway.
The Medical Staff appointed by Government at the stations of Kalyan
and Palghar for the purposes of the inspection referred to in Govern-
ment Resolution No. 723-211-P, dated February 10th, 1897, shall be
considered Plague Authorities for the purposes of these rules. On the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway persons travelling by up through trains
shall be medically examined at Kalyan, and no further medical
inspection of such trains will be requisite ; but no passengers shall
be allowed to enter such trains at any stations between the stations
of Kalyan and Coorla, except at Thana. All local up-trains shall
be emptied and their passengers medically inspected at Coorla, but
no passengers shall be allowed to book from Coorla till they have
been medically inspected. On the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Line
up-trains starting from stations north of Bandora shall be stopped for
medical inspection of their passengers at Santa Cruz, except in the
case of the up-mail train, the passengers by which shall be inspected
at Palghar. No persons, shall be allowed to book at Bandora Station
by up-trains until they have been medically inspected. Season ticket-
holders and free pass-holders will ordinarily be excused from inspection,
but the Plague Authorities may inspect them on any occasion on which
they consider it advisable to do so. The Plague Authorities under
these rules shall be placed under the immediate orders of Surgeon-
Captain Jennings, I.M.S., who is authorized to make all the necessary
arrangements and to commence inspection under these rules as soon as
his arrangements are completed."