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includes all other extra expenditure due to plague but brought to
account under the ordinary appropriate service heads.
(i) All officers who draw bills for indirect plague expenditure
should write conspicuously at the head of each such bill, besides the
account head, the word 'Plague' in red ink. If only some of the items
in a bill are plague charges, the word 'Plague' should be written
against each such item instead of at the head of the bill.
(ii) Contingent expenditure on account of plague, e.g., stationery,
postage, telegrams, office furniture and such like, should be charged
against the heads of account to which the salaries of the officers incur-
ring such expenditure are debited.
(iii) The pay and allowances of officers and establishments form-
ing part of existing departments or services whose employment on
plague duty does not involve the payment of salaries to other persons
for the performance of their legitimate duties, or the payment to them
of extra allowances on account of plague, do not constitute indirect
plague charges (of course they are not direct plague charges) because
they do not involve extra expense.
Plague
correspond
ence and
destruction
of records.
29. All correspondence about plague should be addressed to the
Secretary to Government, Local Self-Government (Public Health)
Department, through the Director of Public Health and should be
marked with the word 'Plague' in red ink on the outside covers and on
the left-hand corner of the papers. Telegrams should be addressed to
' Madras, Plague '. All references regarding account matters should be
addressed to, or forwarded through, the Accountant-General.
30. Plague correspondence should be entered in a separate current
register, and the papers shown against a new item ' Plague ' in the
half-yearly business returns. A separate series of numbers should be
given to the disposals, and the question of destroying or retaining them
should be dealt with in accordance with B.P. No. 101, dated 18th April
1898. Reports of plague cases and deaths received from authorities
outside the Presidency may be destroyed at the end of the month
succeeding that to which they relate; all other reports and returns
after one year.