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the District Collector, to decide what person shall be considered
'suspicious' for the purposes of this rule. So long as he
remains in a place of observation under this rule no person
shall be allowed to communicate, except with the permission
of the said officers, with persons outside the limits of the place.
He shall obey such orders as may be issued by the plague
authority for the cleanliness or protection from infection of the
persons, property or quarters of the persons detained.
30. When in the exercise of the powers conferred by or
under these rules a pass or certificate is granted to any person
or persons to enable him or them to go from one place to
another or for any purpose, such pass or certificate shall not be
used by any other person or persons or for any other purpose.
* 31. The provisions of these Regulations in regard to
segregation do not apply to persons who hold certificates that
they have been inoculated by M. Haffkine's process, provided
such certificates bear a date not earlier than six months but
not later than ten days previously. Such persons shall be
entitled to the following privileges:-
(a) Unless suffering from, or suspected to be suffering
from, plague, they shall not be liable to detention at any
railway or road observation camp when travelling, except for
such period as may be required to disinfect their baggage and
clothes, if those are considered suspicious.
(b) They shall not be liable to take out passports and
present themselves daily for observation for ten days after
arrival from a plague-infected place, or from any place noti-
fied by His Excellency the Governor of Fort St. George in
Council for the purposes of No. 17 of the Original Mufassal
Plague Regulations; but they may be observed at their own
residence and shall, with this view, be bound when required
by any Plague officer to give their names and addresses for
the next ten days.
(c) Inoculated persons who have been living in an
infected house or have otherwise been exposed to plague
infection shall not be liable to be segregated, but may be
required to evacuate the infected house and to have their
clothes and personal effects disinfected. When, however,
all the occupants of a house have been inoculated, neither the
patients nor the other inmates of the house shall be required
to be segregated, provided arrangements are made to the
satisfaction of a Plague authority for the disinfection of the
* As re-issued in G.O., No. 381-P., dated 11th March 1899 and published in the Fort
St. George Gazette, dated 11th April 1899, Part I-A, pages 140-41.