The National Magazine (New Series) June 1898 a Monthly Review

Widows of Brahmana families are required to shave their heads.eithe on the night of the tenth day or in the morning of the eleventh day after the death of their husbands. [...] Bitter " the danger of infection from the simple type of bubonic plague is comparatively trilling"—the excretions do not contain the bacilli and by the time the bubo suppurates and opens those in it will probably have died " The septicamic form however plays a more important part in the propagation of plague since the bacilli are contained in the excreta of the sick. [...] As the plague spread widely and.irulently in the Bombay Presidency the Govertini qit of India passed the Epidemic Diseases Act and under the authority conferred by it the Goverment of Bengal enacted stringent regulations for the inspection and segregation of travc:lers. [...] Special regulations were also passed for the reporting of cases of bubonic plague or of fever with glandular swellings the entry into houses for the purpose of summarily causing them to be cleansed the abating of oti within 24 hours the vacating of !souses the purposes of disinfection or destruction in case of plague occurring therciii the construction of hospitals for the isolation of patient [...] The concession previously made respecting‘ilic isolation and segregation of sufferers " at or in the immediate vicinity of their own houses " was thus taken away." It may here he noted that in marked contrast with the action of the Government of Bengal that of the North-Western Prvinces in consultation with and by the advice of many noblemen and gentlemen of high rank and position allowed is