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Female
Inspectors.
assistants had been detailed for plague duty ; they were mainly
engaged in the work of railway inspection. Female doctors or sub-
ordinates were posted for the examination of female passengers at
the following places :-
Bareilly
1 Compounder.
Ghaziabad
1 Nurse, 1 hospital assistant.
Ghazipur
1 Nurse.
Haldwani
1 Compounder.
Jhansi
1 Ayah.
Manikpur
1 Nurse.
Saharanpur
1 Midwife.
Arrangements at
Manikpur.
Dr. Warburton visited the Manikpur station (which was subse-
quently transferred to Sutna) on the 25th March and recorded the
following remarks on the inspection :-
" Only two trains from the Bombay direction-one at 7-24 A.M.
and the other at 7-5 P.M.-are examined each day. There are no
night trains. I was present at the inspection of two trains, the total
number of passengers examined being 360, of whom about 15 per
cent. were from the Bombay Presidency.
"The examining staff consists of one commissioned medical officer,
Surgeon-Lieutenant Dawes, and a native female nurse ; the former
examines all the men and feels the pulses of the females, whose
examination is completed by the nurse. The examinations were
carefully made. There were no purdah women and no complaints.
" One hospital assistant is in charge of the segregation camp and
is present at inspections to take over any suspects or plague cases
that may have to be detained. The camp consists of tents and huts
for Europeans and natives with hospitals properly isolated ; but, as only
two suspects had so far been detained, the hospital assistant has
had little to do. The small number of " suspects " at this station is
probably due to effective inspections at Jubbulpur and Itarsi.
" The drinking-water is here the great difficulty. Europeans get
theirs from Allahabad, and natives use water from the railway well
and a neighbouring tank, both of which are drying up. The station
is badly lighted.
" The medical officer keeps no diary. I have directed him to do
so, entering the number of passengers examined each day, especially
noting the number from Bombay, and to send a copy of the diary each
week to his superior officer.
" The staff is sufficient and no new passenger is allowed to enter
the train till the inspection is completed."
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