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Government of India. Home Department. The Plague in India 1896 1897

1898

sures during the early period of the epidemic—Beginning of the PAGES epidemio—General course of the epidemic—Conduct of operations by the municipal authorities—The constitution of the municipal government—Regulations of the Municipal Act against dangeous disease—Section 434 of the Municipal Act—First measures-- Activity of the Municipal Health Department—Committee apointed by the Local Gover [...] X District—Equiment-and description of the District—Sub-divisional staff—Detetion of cases and removal of patients to hospital—House-thouse visitation—Importance of the aid afforded by Justices of the Peace—Inauguration of the work—Description of the method of house-to-house visitation—Ambulances —Treatment of the sick in hospital—General features and aims of the hospital system— Rapid es [...] The main object of the report is to furnish an »account of the Main object.epidemic of the conclusions arrived at with regard to the nature of the disease and of the measures best calculated to check and to stay it and of the operations that have been carried out in the Bombay Presidency and elsewhere with this view. [...] copies of the orders issued by the Government of India and the Local Governments and Administrations of a selection of papers from the official correspondence on the subject of the plague and of reports submitted by officers in charge of the operations at important pi-ague centres. [...] The fever and the bubo reveal the true nature of the illness and the hydrophobic symptoms may be a hystercal display of the terror with which the disease is associated." In the account of the plague given by Hirsch stress is raid on the Pulmonary type in India and in fact that the pneumonic type is a character!stic form of plague in India.
government politics public policy
Pages
490
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142188
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Chapter I. Introductory
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Chapter II. Description of Plague: its Causes and Characteristics
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Chapter III. General History and Geographical Distribution
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Chapter IV. Previouss History of Plague in India
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Chapter V. Extent and Course of the Plague in the Bombay Presidency
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Chapter VI. General Account of Preventive Measures. The Epidemic Diseases Act
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Chapter VII. Measures in the City of Bombay
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Chapter VIII. Measures in the Bombay Presidency and Sind
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Chapter IX. Measures outside the Bombay Presidency
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Chapter X. Measures to Prevent the Spread of Infection by Land
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Chapter XI. Measures to Prevent the Spread of Infection by Sea
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Chapter XII. Measures to Prevent the Spread of Infection by Merchandise and Food-Stuffs
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Chapter XIII. Staff
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Chapter XIV. Regulations Against Arrivals from India Enforced in other Countries
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Chapter XV. The Pilgrimage to Mecca
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Chapter XVI. Conclusion
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Index
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